For its third release, soulful selector, Sam Don’s imprint, Sweet Free Association, takes a break from uncovering and reissuing past treasures, and instead focuses on some brand new music. This fresh, 3-track 12 features the work of producer, Convertible. All the tunes employ / deploy super infectious rhythms that reference and update aspects of house music history. 

Opening with showers, that actually sound more like surf, Like The Rain rides a big room beat. Tantalising, exciting, urgent but warm, its electronic hog of a B-line recalls that of a Larry Levan Paradise Garage-tailored remix, while its cycling, synthetic strings nod to Underground Resistance’s spirit-lifting techno epics. Ethereal exclamations and canny conga fills are further flashback, this time the Balearic bliss of Don Carlos’ “Paradise House”.

Silent Shadows packs a pacy, kinda tribal pounding, however this is countered, calmed, by more gossamer vocals and soothing swirls. Beginning with bubbling sound effects, it evolves into a bit of sophisticatedly reprised rave, complete with trance-y “build-the-box” bleeps. 

Finally, Hydrocity evokes / invokes classy early `90s Italian productions and deep, deep New York dubs, with a jazzy juxtaposition of repeating keys, riffs and melodies. Again undercut by those emotive Detroit strings, and adding some crazy cowbell towards its close. 

Convertible’s Like The Rain can be ordered directly from Sweet Free Association.