Central to the Croatian House scene, PEZNT is making big moves with their fantastic debut album, “Paid In Full”. Featuring a range of key collaborators who all deliver pure gold, this panoramic album takes a journey through hip hop, soul, funk, r&b and all flavors of house music across 10 stunning new tracks and six remixes.
PEZNT is a characterful duo who bring real attitude and a wide range of influences to their music. Their productions always start with a full-blown party in mind, with a wry smile and a big heart as labels Defected, Toolroom, and Dirtybird are well aware. Now PEZNT show off their widest range of skills yet on a stunning album that is full to the brim with positivity, funk, and groove
‘Yours’ with the brilliant Born I sets us off with a classic hip hop joint, then Dus joins the boys with Shyam P and the emotion meter hits 11 on ‘Be Somebody’; a fusion of soul, bottom end drive and a groove so good it hurts. Born I appear again on track three and the gear steps up and the party lifts off as house meets hip hop on this previously released single ‘Doin’ My Thing’. Next is ‘Toxic Love’ with Gregers, which is catchier than the common cold and has all the hands in the air moments required for massive dance floor destruction.
‘Bad Girls’ is a title we can all relate to and is a fire track with Masta Ace that has a fat dirty live baseline rolling out over a chunky drum groove. Dus makes a return on ‘Red and Blue’ as we take a break from the dance floor heaters to feel the emotion from the live drums, instrumentation and vocal delivery from Gregers that is pure gold.
PEZNT – Paid in Full – Red & Blue Edition – DLP
PEZNT – Paid in Full – DLP
This is an album of real modern music dripping with quality and respect for House heritage and is not to be missed.
House / Tech House / Techno / Disco / Acid
Paid In Full tracklist :
1. Yours feat. Born I
2. Toxic Love feat. Gregers
3. Need You Now feat. Shyam P
4. Doin My Thing feat. Born I
5. Red & Blue feat. Gregers and Dus
6. Be Somebody feat. Shyam P and Dus
7. Pelin
8. Bad Girls feat. Masta Ace
DMC WORLD MAG
4.5/5 Review
To name an album ‘Paid In Full’ show the big courage Tom ‘Blacksoul’ Pasanec and studio partner Dejan Markovic aka PEZNT have as the evergreen Hip Hop classic album by Eric B. & Rakim of the same name surely is a huge influence for them. In fact, you can find housed up Hip Hop tracks on their classy debut album (the Nile Rodgers esque disco jam ‘Doin’ My Thing’, the mega funky ‘Bad Girls’ which features the unmistakable voice from Masta Ace and the slow opener ‘Yours’) but what you get is much more than Hip House. Even for friends of more experimental territories, there is something on this album like the midtempo ‘Be Somebody’.
All in all, it certainly is one of the best artist long-players of the year.