FRANK & TONY Schallplatten & CDs

Review: There are not too many house and techno labels in the United States that can boast quite the discography and international success that the Brooklyn based Scissor & Thread label can. For over a decade now, the busy label has kept the quality up to the high standards the label set when starting. A big part of that quality is having Frank & Tony on board through the label's history. Ethos is their new full-length album that, spread across a double pack of wax, with tracks mostly kept under close guard, except the opener 'Olympia'. Make no mistake though, from the rumours and whispers we've heard already, it looks like being a big hit.

Review: Long time deep house explorers Frank & Tony have joined forces once more to serve up a sublime late night trip to the edges of the known universe. Their Understanding EP on home label Scissor & Thread opens with a masterfully widescreen cut in ''We Being' which has smeared cosmic pads stretching to infinity over dusty drums and amidst dreamy ambient pads. 'Understanding' is just as deep but more dubby, with fleshy low ends and more rueful, introspective pad work. The opener then gets flipped by Frank & Tony and Will Long into a Wide Open edit that is smoky and designed for zoned out late nights.

Review: Francis Harris and Anthony Collins (Frank & Tony) were renowned for their house music production work with seminal New York duo Bob Moses prior to finding their own fame. Now debuting an EP for Scissor And Thread, the dubwise deep housers opt for an organic and homely sound in their sonic homage to their early days. A masterclass in melodic, ethereal house, this EP is reminiscent of the reflective, warm and broken work of Charles Webster, but it comes with a modern flair that only Frank & Tony could deliver.