Epicure Records welcomes a fresh parcel from New York’s Evan Michael. The “Time Is Now” EP gathers three originals shaped by the city’s after‑hours circuitry – raw, emotionally charged, balanced between release and restraint. Shubostar, Vanity Project, and Gisèle Kérozen each step in with remixes, expanding the record’s reach without diluting its core temperature. Evan Michael has spent years working the margins of the city’s nightlife engine, and that perspective runs through every groove: music designed for the moment when a room finally exhales, when the floor becomes a shared confession. That sense of collective surrender is the record’s quiet engine, pulling each track toward a release that feels earned rather than forced. Three originals, three reinterpretations, one steady pulse.

Premiered here, “Precious Punch” rides a breakbeat chassis, its drums skipping and stuttering with a restless, kinetic energy. Trippy synth layers drift through the arrangement like heat haze, bending perception while sharp leads cut across the top with surgical precision. The construction is meticulous – each section lands exactly where it should, transitions feel intuitive, and nothing overstays. Evan Michael displays a designer’s attention to texture and a composer’s feel for tension, turning out a piece that refuses to settle into predictability. Where similar tracks coast on familiar shapes, this one jolts the system awake, injecting a dose of genuine creativity into the mid‑set lull. A well‑built, well‑calibrated antidote to the forgettable.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label.

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