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01. Jorkes - You Will Be Mine
02. Jorkes - Robot Lover
03. Jorkes - Sweet Dreams
04. Jorkes - CDEvaLo
ARTIST
TITLE
Sweet Dreams
FORMAT
12"

LABEL
CATALOG #
PLAYRJC 081EP PLAYRJC 081EP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/24/2023

The increasingly vital Jorkes makes a big step up to the acclaimed Live at Robert Johnson label with her standout Sweet Dreams EP. Jorkes is the co-founder of the unique Freeride Millenium label which is a hotbed for queer dance music. German-born but Austria based, she has an influential residency at Radio 80000 alongside ParisBöhm and is a resident at Stuttgart's Romantica where she plays a thrilling mix of disco, house, techno, and everything in between. She is someone who always serves to highlight the importance of the dance floor as a place of sexual and cultural liberation and this new EP is another innovative statement that comes as she rides a wave of high-profile radio, DJ and media support for recent outings on her own label. Opener "You Will Be Mine" is a song about obsessing after an unattainable stranger on the dance floor who disappears into the night. It's a silky disco house sound with chords that sing and a floating bassline that lifts you off your feet. The melodic motifs bring charm and cosmic energy and the whole track has a lush, musical feel. The equally excellent "Robot Lover" muses on human detachment in this technological era of internet porn, dating apps and screen obsessions and how a robotic lover might be a better fit than a real life partner. It is another elastic and disco-tinged rhythm, with elegant chords and dancing keys over a suspensory bassline. Intimate vocal whispers bring tenderness to this timeless track. On the flip side, "Sweet Dreams" layers up infectious claps and tinny percussion over an irresistible deep house groove. It's a widescreen, symphonic sound that brings very real but subtle joy and closer "CDEvaLo" is the name of a crossdressing male-to-female and sex-worker friend of Jorkes. It is a comment on the number of young people who arrived in Athens over the years to do cross-dressing sex work after being kicked out by their Orthodox Christian homes. The track flips the script with a more playful disco sound, characterful vocoder vocals and glossy synths over a jacked house beat.