Deep-Tech Doesn't Have to Sound Cold. This Paris Duo Just Proved It.

What's on the Maree Bass EP?

Jacques Bon and Pit Spector built the Maree Bass EP as a four-track session: "Breke," "House Delice," the title track "Maree Bass," and a closing remix of "Maree Bass" by Margaux Gazur. It came out July 3, 2026 on Live At Robert Johnson (catalog PLAYRJC133 on 12" vinyl, PLAYRJC133D digitally), tagged on the label's own store pages as electronic, minimal, deep-tech and organic house.

The label's own liner notes describe the duo's method as a clear and reduced understanding of club music: productions that are precisely constructed and formally defined while staying emotionally open, building depth not through complexity but through feeling, space and time. For the closer, Gazur, a Berlin-based French-Vietnamese sound artist known for weaving field recordings and acoustic instruments into her own work, condenses that same idea, bringing intensity and clarity without losing the emotional openness of the original.

A musical language that creates depth not through complexity, but through feeling, space, and time.

Who are Jacques Bon and Pit Spector?

Bon has headed Smallville Records' Paris arm for ten years, building a catalog that runs through deep house, psychedelic disco and experimental electronics; he has released on Tim Sweeney's Beats In Space, Mule Musiq, Kann and Giegling, and co-produced with Christopher Rau and Chicago house pioneers Virgo Four. Maree Bass is his second outing on Live At Robert Johnson: his 2019 Fractals EP on the same label paired two originals with two remixes from Lauer.

Spector, born Pierre Deniel, has worked the Paris underground since 2006, coming up through piano and guitar in rock, jazz and reggae bands before joining the live trio Antislash. He founded Prospector Records in 2013 and ran its residency party at La Machine du Moulin Rouge from 2014, and has DJed and played live at Rex Club, Concrete and Panorama Bar. Gazur, the duo's remixer here, has herself released on Bon's Smallville imprint, keeping the whole EP inside a tight, familiar circle of Paris and Berlin deep house regulars.

Why does Live At Robert Johnson matter here?

Live At Robert Johnson takes its name from the club in Offenbach, just outside Frankfurt, and has spent two decades pairing that room's sound with a small, disciplined release schedule: Roman Flügel, Massimiliano Pagliara, Skatebard and Lauer, Tim Paris. It is a catalog built on deep house and minimal that keeps room for jazz phrasing and swing, rather than the flatter, colder end of deep-tech that dominates a lot of the genre's current output. Signing Bon and Spector's collaboration keeps that lineage going, and the fact that Bon is a repeat artist says the label heard something worth a second invitation.