One thing you can always bet on with new music from Keenhouse is that it’ll smash your preconceived ideas of what you think it’s going to be. On the cusp of the release of his second album comes the Summer Society EP, which takes the Civic Transit style of Keenhouse on a summer vacation to the beach and chills and distills the groove into something new, yet something still very Keenhouse in sound and spirit.

A word is not spoken or sung over the four tracks which lets the sun dappled rhythms and melodies set the mood. The current evolution of Ken Rangkuty’s musical adventure slims the Keenhouse sound down to an almost minimalist nu-disco house sound. Gone are many of the 80s trappings of his previous works, while still retaining catchy synth grooves they are now coloured by the summer sunshine in a more laidback tropical atmosphere.

1. The Summer Society by keenhouse

One can’t deny Rangutky’s gift for melody, and like every good house music artist he knows hot to make the melody work for the attention of the listener. The slow building, but ultimately rewarding, tracks on Summer Society allow one to be transported to serenely tropical climes but still feel the driving hooks that deliver real satisfaction. The EP’s name bearing opener takes you away on a summer vacation with a fantasticly catchy melody that lights up the beachside sunset in a candy coloured crescendo when it hits.

Much of the EP’s four tracks walk a line that dips into a sun warmed swimming pool of synthesized salsa rhythms laced with an additonal house flavour. It’s an escape to the beach via civic transit that drops you on a refreshing shoreline samba of grooves and chilled out summer time loving. The Keenhouse summer vacation via Summer Society will be a mainstay of your summer memories of 2011 and as the season changes to cooler temperatures I can’t help but imagine where Keenhouse will take us on our next musical adventure.