Swiss producer Crowdpleaser is an interesting addition to Tiga's Turbo roster. While he's built a reputation as a producer of bespoke deep house for labels like Drumpoet Community and Mental Groove, this debut album deviates from the script in many pleasing ways. Although the locked-in 4/4 pulse of house is used as a basis for the vast majority of the tracks on Crowdpleaser, it never feels much like a house album. There are forays into blissful slo-mo electronica ("Emilie"), distinct electrofunk influences, deep and dubbed out excursions, an off-kilter leftfield pop instrumental ("Hang Out") and even a collaboration with LSD guru Terence McKenna (last seen rambling on a Shamen record in the early '90s).

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