Ron Trent - Love Affair [Chiwax]

It's taken a while, but Chiwax has finally reissued its 2014 repress of Ron Trent's brilliant Love Affair EP, originally released in 1992, and which at the time was presented as the official follow-up to his unparalleled debut Altered States. All six mixes from the original 12” are present in remastered form. Four of them are by Trent himself: the warm, brilliant and stellar Ron Soulful Mix (which many consider a blueprint for his later collaborations with Chez Damier), the minimalist and sub-bass-heavy Bass Shaker Mix, the riff-driven joy of the Underground Mix, and the dark, heavy, alien Beatnik Mix. The remaining mixes are by "executive producer" Braxton Holmes: the dense, frantic, sweaty 326 Mix, and the classic Chicago-style depth of the Smooth Mix.