Hotel de Paris is the first single from the prolific writer/producer/DJ/bass player Pete Maude, a.k.a. Southbeach, and features a range of dance music styles linked by a highly melodic sensibility and strikingly distinctive rhythmic patterns. 　　 　　The title track Hotel de Paris (128 bpm) is a Progressive Trance number driven by heavy bass and locked into a naggingly insistent melodic riff. Distorts (129 bpm) is a House/Breakbeat track featuring squelchy 303 lines, building up, as the title suggests, to distortion. Transition (132 bpm) is a melodic Trance/House track featuring a piano riff, and overdubbed with a live bass line. Enjoy (125 bpm) is the most overtly commercial track of the set, a Pop/House/Trance number featuring the live vocal of a female soap star, Faithless-type synth stabs, and sweeping, swooning strings. 　　 　　The four tracks are a massively impressive debut from an exciting and original new artist. 　　 　　"Summerhouse Records deliver a fine little EP package with four excellent tracks from Southbeach. As the name suggests, they're upbeat numbers that really kick off in a very special way. The cut du jour has to be 'Hotel de Paris' though, as rising electro melodies get the thing going until the filters cut in and take the whole thing up a gear. A vaguely trancey breakdown is saved at the last gasp with a solid bassline, but all in all, it's a hooky, happy quartet from Summerhouse. Worth a tree-climb for." (DJ Mag)