Shades of House

Toronto-based producer James Duncan returns to Real Soon with his second release for the label following 2005’s ‘Peoples are Peoples’ EP. Unlike many, James is not one to flood the market with numerous releases but has instead built a solid reputation with just a handful of releases spread over the past 10 years, releasing on Real Soon, Dance Tracks, Chair Recordings and his own imprint Le Systeme. James’ trademark, as fully demonstrated on this EP of four new untitled tracks, is a raw, soulful, minimal and uncompromising take on classic Chicago and NY House music. This is the sound of House music taken apart and reconstructed with the most basic, rough-edged building blocks; gritty, dirty percussion, sine wave bass, EQ’d & filtered vocal and piano parts. As well as producing House music, James is an active musician having worked with Metro Area, Morgan Geist, Kelley Polar, DJ Romain, The Silent League, Aarktica, Glenn Branca and Izititiz.