In case it wasn’t made explicitly clear in Dancing Astronaut’s Artists to Watch in 2021 commentary, it’s being repeated it again: Bleu Clair is arguably the brightest name in house music right now. Only two months into 2021, Bleu Clair has already doubled down on our reasoning, once on his STMPD RCRDS linkup “Beat Like This” with OOTORO, and once on his assistance for Nightbass’ seven-year anniversary celebration. The Indonensian-bred authority is now swapping out “doubling” for “tripling” as he realigns with Monstercat to set “The Tempo.”This, of course, can’t continue without a proper nod to Monstercat for supplying the concise lyrics of “stop for a minute, gotta find the tempo” in the track’s YouTube description. Aptly paced at 125 BPM for all those inquiring, “The Tempo” treks out Bleu Clair’s eclectic depot of singular tech house traits built around samples traced back to Asia and self-explained as “much different” in terms of direction than any of Bleu Clair’s other top-of-the-line productions. The artists who retain the capacity to bring out the production complexity of such a simplistic yet enlivened sound design as effortlessly as Bleu Clair have been proven to be far and few between.
