A little over a month ago while I was visiting London, my cousin and I were doing a midnight drive around the city. We decided to turn on the radio to hear what’s on and to my surprise, at least 5 stations were simultaneously playing quality, class music. One station was exclusively a Drum ‘n Bass station, another a Chillout/Downtempo/Reggae station. Even Kiss FM was playing a Disco House remix of an Adele track. Wish we had that sort of treatment and taste Stateside!!

Now there were a few other radio stations that were “pirate radio stations”. These stations are run by regular people in their garage, room, or basement and hacking into a frequency that you can pick up within the vicinity. These stations were playing straight up, smooth, Deep House music. One of the tracks I heard was pure magic.

The track was by Quarion, titled Turn Off The Light. A very atmospheric and deep, yet tonal work. This track is an absolute gem. It starts out with filtered percussion with uniquely tremolo’d chords, becoming more driven with the full beat and bass line entering. Then it goes into a sort of “round 2″ where the music gets filtered as a seemingly 70s Rare Groove sample creeps in with vocals singing “Turn Off The Light” and strings, funk guitar lines, etc. all going together before the beat kicks back in again.

What’s fantastic about this music is that you can be at a happening function with tons of mingling and have this track bumping loud in the background and it won’t demand your attention! It just fills the air and pockets of silence with serene frequencies. I feel like there should be a lot more upbeat/dance music like this.. where it doesn’t compel you to pay attention to it and its job is to provide atmosphere and good moods. Anyway, time for the track that’s been one of my main jams since that lovely London night keepin’ it funky.