These Days

What music does the end of August need? It needs dance music, music for sunshine and beer gardens, for driving to the coast with the windows down, music with rippling synthlines, arpeggios, four four drums, piano, chanted vox and the tinge of knowing that this is the end of summer. 

Llewellyn's These Days (Don't Make Me Wait) came out in 2019, end of the night house/ disco from Germany. Andrew Weatherall closed an ALFOS with it in early 2020, to a rapturous reception by all accounts.  

These Days (Don't Make Me Wait)

Don't Make Me Wait

Every year without fail I find something right at the end of the year that is clearly one of the best tracks of that year. I found this one on 30th December. Here's the latest 'should have been in my 2019 end of year list' contender...



A combination of thumping kick drum, pulsing disco sequencer line, a piano part that's straight out of 1991 and a chanted vocal line 'don't make me wait' that is pure house. This sounds like it could have been made at any point in the last thirty years and also somehow very 2019. Transporting, uplifting and with energy to spare. You can buy it from Bandcamp here.  The man who is Llewellyn is Martin Enke from Leipzig (who also makes music as Lake People, Amrint Keen and Trickform) .