Long time coming and definitely one of the triggers to start this label: listening to Niagara and wanting to capture them on disc. Their hands-on hardware live sets were keeping people on their toes. Raw house with an improvised and fresh vibe outside the exclusive domain of the dancefloor. This connects with their more experimental past as One Might Add and translates perfectly into this intuitive approach to dance music. "Ouro Oeste" might or might not be a pun - they are from the so-called West country of Portugal (Oeste) and they struck Gold (Ouro) - but these five tracks capture the trio of António Arruda, Alberto Arruda (brothers) and Sara Eckerson in an ever-developing stage. They are the first to announce different directions and it's hard to collect a bunch of tracks because they keep producing new ones, so the term "capture the sound on vinyl" is actually quite true: a few more weeks and the tracklist could be entirely different. That opens a broad future. "Onda Blue" was actually one of the first to be considered for this EP, with its happy, summery vibe, elastic bassline and slightly offbeat tones that place this in no specific Age at all; "Kraftor" may start in a psych-ambient mood but when the beat and bassline kick in it's physical and progressively dubby towards the end - this is one fine example of how a track that could be longer holds its core elements real tight by going just far enough; "Urmeiras" sort of picks up on the masked dub bassline suggested by the previous track. Powerful psych tones going on plus a heavenly melody carrying the song to a reverb-drenched conclusion; "Caracas" might be the "Disco" track here: the bassline and percussion drops are the driving elements but it's impossible to bypass the extremely rich melodies happening on top of it all. Complex, demanding house progression (not progressive house) that, given the space, could last forever; "Verde" shows a sort of hard kicking Detroit-edit style. It's a raw, propulsive, slightly detuned rhythm track with enough distortion to keep heads spinning even before all the cosmic blasts start appearing halfway through the near-3 minute total duration. Vinyl 12" limited to 300 hand-painted, hand-stamped copies.