Reliance’s 3rd outing sees UK producer Luke Dean step into the spotlight with his “Get Busy EP”, a triple-threat release that drips with sweat, sass, and serious low-end finesse. Each of the three tracks taps into a different flashpoint of UK club culture – HipHouse, Garage, Hard House – but none of it leans on nostalgia. Instead, Dean pulls up the roots, mutates the forms, and plants something sharper, sweatier, and completely his own.
“Get Busy” opens the record with no-prisoners energy – a HipHouse burner with slamming breaks, rough-edged raps, and a bassline that sizzles like Acid reflux in a warehouse at 4 a.m. It’s rowdy, raw, and impossible to ignore, the kind of track that hijacks your limbs before your head has time to protest.
The B1, “Party Time, sees Dean channeling his flair for elegance and groove into a radiant slice of dancefloor gold. Strings shimmer like sunlight on chrome, gliding effortlessly over garage-tinted percussion and silky breakdowns. It’s a masterclass in restraint and richness – modern Techhouse with a warm UK heartbeat, crafted for DJs who want to lift the room without ever raising their voice.
Closing cut “Coast2Coast” lets loose again, and it’s nasty in all the right ways. A revved-up UKG/Hard House hybrid with a dash of mid-2000s Netherlands swagger, it rides a lightning bolt of pitched vocals, punchy pads, and unhinged breakdowns that practically melt through the speakers. The kind of track that doesn’t just end a night – it detaches it from reality.
“Get Busy EP” is a bold EP from a producer clearly more interested in bending genres than following them. High-stamina, high-impact, and buzzing with intention – Luke Dean’s entry into the Reliance universe doesn’t knock at the door, it kicks it clean off the hinges.
Words by Pasha Pliskin
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