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Klur's Forecast Is the Leanest Record He's Made for Colorize Yet
Three releases into a deal with Colorize in under half a year, Forecast is the tightest one yet, a warm-up record built for the part of a set before the room's decided to trust the DJ.
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Forecast is Klur's third single for Colorize in five months. It's the one where the pace starts making sense.
He debuted on the label in October 2020 with "Summit / Odysée," a two-track EP that spread itself across two ideas rather than commit to one. A single, "Floating," followed in January. Six weeks later, Forecast lands on March 3rd. Three releases for one label inside five months is a decision, one Colorize has made as much as he has, not a producer testing the water.
Colorize split off from Enhanced Progressive in 2011 to give deep house and true progressive house a home of their own, away from Enhanced's trance side. It's the label behind Matt Fax's run and Dezza's. PRAANA's compilation work sits in the same catalogue. A debut earns a listen there. A third single this close behind the second earns a place in the regular rotation. That's the bet Colorize is making with Klur. It's also a strange time to make that bet. Most of the rooms this music is built for are still closed across Europe, a year into the pandemic, and three releases in five months reads less like routine output and more like the label doubling down regardless. The label's kept a tight roster by genre standards, too, sticking with house and progressive producers across several releases rather than chasing one hit and moving on.
Forecast is the leanest thing he's put out yet. Two tracks meant two different moods to choose between on the debut, and a single means picking one and committing to it. That's what this is: 5:45, no padding to get there. It opens organic, real-sounding textures before anything electronic asserts itself. Around the half-minute mark, brass swells announce the turn, and from there the track keeps folding in more synthetic elements as it strides, trading warmth for edge in stages rather than all at once. The percussion stays quiet and does its job. Nothing's fighting for the foreground. Nothing needed two tracks to say it.
We'd set this one early. It's built for the part of a night where the room hasn't decided to trust the DJ yet, not the twenty minutes where that trust's already been spent. It grabs at you rather than easing you in. A call-to-attention record, and that's what makes it worth playing early rather than just sitting through. Where "Floating" wanted a single moment, Forecast wants forty-five minutes of a set to feel like it's going somewhere. That's the harder thing to build, and it's the one that gets used more.
It works outside the room too. Played in a car on a slow drive, Forecast holds up the same way it does at the top of a set. It isn't true of most records built mainly for a big rig. That range, small system and full PA both, says more about where Klur's aiming than another six minutes of extended mix would.
There's a version of this that oversells its own patience — stretches a synth line a minute past its welcome and calls it restraint. Forecast doesn't. It's efficient in a way plenty of Colorize's bigger singles aren't. That efficiency matters more to a working DJ than another eight-minute epic does. The label signs both kinds. This is the leaner one. It's the one to reach for off a roster mostly known for the other.
Three releases into a Colorize deal, a lot of producers are still finding their lane. Klur already has, and "Floating" was the first sign of it. He's a Stockholm producer with a background in film and media composing before this, and a growing run of releases on the label.