Watch a short film about a weird 1998 dance tune being re-released by Night Slugs and Fade To Mind

London label Night Slugs and LA-based label Fade To Mind are teaming up to release a 1998 song called ‘Icy Lake’ by Dat Oven which was first brought to their attention by Total Freedom when he stumbled across a Youtube video of the track being played by Junior Vasquez at an NYC house club Palladium.

L-Vis 1990 and director Wills Glasspiegel teamed up with Thump to tell the story of the track in a short documentary, which is a grimey glacial nine-minute house track with a disturbing vocal sample.

The track is out now with remixes from L-Vis 1990, Total Freedom, NA and Rashad (RIP).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pvlOYrC0wA

Here’s the original video as watched by Freedom:

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