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Franck Roger returns to his Home Invasion imprint this November with the ‘Lottus’ EP, backed with a remix from Alexkid.

Paris born producer and DJ Franck Roger has long been a staple in the deep house scene for two decades now, making his mark via his own Real Tone and Home Invasion imprints as well as labels such as Versatile, Desolat, Circus Company, Planet E and Tsuba to name but a few. This time round though it’s Home Invasion, the vinly only imprint predominantly a platform for Franck’s own material while welcoming friends D’Julz, Paolo Rocco, Julien Sandre and Carlos Sanchez onto the roster for collaborations and guest EP’s.

Title-track ‘Lottus’ opens with Franck’s signature organic drum groove, airy pad swells and modulating synth whirrs before ‘Air’ tips the focus over to bumpy rhythms, arpeggio bell chimes and cinematic leads.

‘Christal’ is up first on the flip side and sees Franck fuse a robust, swinging drum groove with spacey ethereal chords, futuristic synth chimes and processed robotic vocal additions. Alexkid then steps up to round out the package with his take on ‘My Name Is’ employing classic house tropes of tension building strings, stuttering vocal cuts and a snaking sub bass groove alongside a heady shuffled, drum groove.

Franck Roger’s ‘Lottus’ EP is out on Home Invasion November 2017.

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