Toronto, Canada based Naw's "City Saturate", aka Neil Wiernik's follow-up to "Green Nights Orange Days" is an album easily categorized alongside any number of Germany's minimal house producers. Its moods are sparse but warm, with low-key beats that thump along a persistent 4/4 pattern, laced with the deep, bassy tones, dreamy synth dissolves and crisp-but-muted-dull analog keys.

1. Harbourline Rendered
2. 5 AM West Bound
3. Sustained Viaduct Passages
4. City Saturate pt. I
5. City Saturate pt. II
6. City Saturate pt. III
7. Elbow Landlock
8. Potholes, Railroad Cracks And Sidewalk Smack
9. 5 PM East Bound
10. 5 AM West Bound (Tomas Jirku as west as it gets remix)

Imagine the estranged cleanliness of partially lit downtown skyscrapers panning slowly as you drive toward the center of the metropolis.

At times processed dubwise, but always futuristic. If your dreams come to you with watery, minimal house beats as their soundtrack, "City Saturate" will undoubtedly be...dreamy.

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