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Today’s docket brings us a fresh E.P. from AGROPOL, resident DJ for SF-based crew Local500, and co-producer of their event series, Function500. Written to capture and celebrate the energy of a night out in San Francisco, the aptly-titled NIGHT OUT E.P. follows the archetypal clubgoer’s journey from dusk to dawn.
NIGHT OUT is a 5-track excursion, commencing with “Where The Party At?”. It’s the song spilling from open car windows on the way to the club, organ riffs and horn stabs radiating into the street as thumping bass fades into the distance. Uptempo house with irresistible rhythm.
“Horny” makes up the bulk of the project with three wildly different mixes: “Horny”, “Horny (Agro Mix)”, and “Horny (Soul Mix)”. The first of the three is warm, easygoing, and inviting; hand drums create light percussion alongside the cheerful drag of - can you guess? - horns. The bass is thick, but not overpowering. “Horny” says: you’ve made it into the venue; now easing body into rhythm, warming into the imminent promise of a night well-spent.
“Horny (Agro Mix)” picks up in tempo and energy, injecting a hardgroove sensibility into the E.P. as the kick distorts into a crunchy, punchy, rumbling low end. “Agro Mix” is Night Out’s energetic peak; the part of the night where conversations melt into a sheen of sweat, glimmers caught between the rapid flash of artificial light.
Alas, the witching hour approaches, bringing with it the looming threat of house lights and ringing ears. “Horny (Soul Mix)” is the DJ's choice for closing the night on a feel-good note. If Night Out tells us a story, then the horns are its narrator, woven throughout each track, shifting mood and energy accordingly. The horns sing sweetly on “Soul Mix”, eliciting a relaxed, uplifting atmosphere, imbued with an undercurrent of tender nostalgia.
Of course, the night never really ends when the club shuts down, so here we find ourselves at “The Afters”: sultry, chilled, loungey. The horns return to drift lazily across the steady pulse of rhythm, obscured by a haze of electric piano. Somewhere in San Francisco, the sun begins to peer through the windows of an apartment, gently filled with music and the soft murmur of overlapping voices burbling out from a tangle of happy, tired bodies sprawled across the wooden floor.
The digitals for Night Out E.P. are currently available for pre-order on Bandcamp. For anyone finding themselves in the Bay Area next month, AGROPOL will be playing a Function500 party on 8.6.26, alongside San Francisco DJs Buck Wilson, golem, and fellow Local500 resident Panderer.
Release date TBD.
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