Up next on Soul Quest comes “A Ghostly Tryst“, the latest from elusive deep house producer Berkeley Hunt, whose fascination with form and feeling finds new light in this four-track trek through rhythmic fragmentation and melodic rapture. Both tactile and elusive, Hunt’s sound continues to push the styles of contemporary broken beat and jazz-inflected electronica, sculpting spaces that are as emotionally resonant as they are formally daring & bold.
Since the shadowy elegance of 2024’s “Adversperate”, Hunt has carved out a soundworld that favours suggestion over certainty and illumination over exposition. With “A Ghostly Tryst”, Hunt turns their attention to romance – not the overt kind, but the type that broods beneath the surface, appearing in the moments between kicks and chords, whispers and silences.
Opening track “It Called” sets the tone, a filtered piano flickering against muted percussion and a haunting vocal refrain. It doesn’t so much announce itself as it simply appears, like a memory half-forgotten. “Wicked Sins” ups the ante with Hunt’s signature rhythmic sleight of hand – a complex puzzle of ghostly samples and elliptical groove work that stays in motion long after it’s over. Atlanta’s Stefan Ringer then delivers his razor-sharp version, preserving the spirit while subtly recoding its pieces into something spellbinding.
Closing number “Lost in the Delirium” is Hunt at their most unguarded: glassy textures, layered drumlines, and an almost spiritual ascent into rhythm. It’s an ecstatic exhale to round out an EP that doesn’t just tell a story, but truly lives in one.
“A Ghostly Tryst” exists in the same way as memory built from the fragments of feeling does – seemingly familiar, yet fascinatingly mysterious. And Berkeley Hunt, with their hands on the pulse of the liminal, is fast becoming one of the most evocative voices in deep house’s ever-shifting narrative. Definitely check this one out.
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