Review
Genre and Mood
Simion and Roland Clark’s Lost - Club Mix is deep house in its classic form: a producer’s groove and a singer’s voice. A tracklist site sums it up as a driving, late-night deep house groove under commanding vocals, and the feeling is hypnotic and soulful.
Song Summary
Lost opened Lost In Deep, an EP that Simion released on Coyu’s label Suara in October 2014. The label welcomed him as one of Germany’s finest emerging artists and put the irresistible vocals of the singer and house legend Roland Clark at the centre of the package. The EP had five tracks, Lost in its club mix and in a remix by Teenage Mutants among them. This page is about the 6:09 version that the 2015 compilation Buddha Bar Clubbing by Ravin carries, thirty seconds shorter than the EP’s club mix.
Musical Breakdown
Main Section
No review we found walks through the track, so this page describes less than usual. What the sources agree on is the pairing: a deep house groove that keeps moving and a voice that commands it. The official video, at about three and a half minutes, is a shorter edit of the same song.
Concepts in Focus
The <a href=“https://korczis.github.io/sonic-playground/concept/featured-artist/” class=“concept-link font-medium text-primary-700 underline decoration-dotted underline-offset-4 hover:decoration-solid dark:text-primary-400” data-concept=“featured-artist” title=“A guest performer credited on another artist’s track, usually as “feat.”: a rapper’s verse, a singer’s hook or a second voice. Features bring together different styles and audiences and are central to hip-hop, R&B and dance music.“>featured artist here is a veteran. Roland Clark, born in Newark and based in Atlanta, has made house records since 1987: he was a founding member of Urban Soul, is best known for Armand van Helden’s Flowerz, and wrote I Get Deep, sampled by Fatboy Slim and later in Katy Perry’s Swish Swish. On Lost his voice gives a young producer’s track the authority of nearly three decades of house.
Underneath runs a house groove, the steady house pulse that the tracklist site hears here as driving and late-night. Compare how KANT – Close to the Wire (Club Remix) stretches a singer over a similar pulse.
Artistic Context
Simion’s booking agency describes a producer who caused a buzz in 2013 with his remix of Ben Pearce’s What I Might Do, went on to release on Berlin’s OFF Recordings and on Hedonism Music, a label he runs, and whose Lost In Deep EP with Roland Clark and the follow-up Give Your Love both entered the top 15 of Beatport’s deep house chart. One digital edition of the EP, on Hedonism Music, credits the song’s writing to Robert Smith and five other members of the Cure, a credit no other source we found explains.
Impact and Reception
Beyond its Beatport placing, the track’s life is in DJ sets and compilations: MusicBrainz lists it in Solomun’s Boiler Room set in Tulum in January 2015 and on Hed Kandi’s Miami compilation, and a year after the EP it reappeared on a Buddha-Bar club compilation. Play it late.
