Back catalogue: Funky/Club House

Review: Athens Of The North can usually be found honing their expert craft of unearthing nigh impossible to find disco, and reissuing it in the utmost quality. However, the work of East Coast Love Affair (Euan Fryer and Nick Moore) is deceiving, as it adopts the image of one of said reissues while actually being fully contemporary music. 'Get Down' tops up a slew of master-quality releases for the label, expropriating a vocal line from obscure Minneapolis 'lo-fi' band Quiet Storm and putting it back into an entirely new, drunk-and-high instrumental context (think lasers, whistles, funk basses, an overall hazy sound). 'Can You Deal', on the flip, lends Quiet Storm a similar treatment, albeit for a cleverly hi-lo-fi disco house treatment.

Review: Welcome along to the fourth release of the brandnew drumpoet.comMUNITY record label out of Zurich. After achieving very nice reactions to the last releases and getting in touch with more like minded peeps we are all very proud to introduce you to our latest signing. It's been delivered by an old friend from Geneva who goes by the name Laneq and features for his release on DPC the alias Quarion. Laneq released various tracks already and is an open-minded music lover. His collaboration with Snax was released in spring on Get Physical and earned much attention from the DJ-elite. He also released some tracks on Mental Groove and A Few Among Others. As Enterplay he is producing techno orientated music with Rosario from Geneva and Japanese DJ Kent from Forces of Nature. His other big passion is hip hop where he teams up with various MCs to provide funky and crisp MPC beats. As you can see he's a really busy man. Beside all his production activities he is also an excellent DJ and this is also the reason how this single came along, by inviting him to come and drop a set at my monthly club night "loud minority". I told him about the idea behind our label and proposed him to send us some simple but dancefloor-orientated tracks. When Ron Shiller and myself heard the tracks we were blown away. Karasu made also all our mates happy and it became a big tune among Lexx/Kawabata, Kalabrese, Àme and Dixon. It is a very uplifting and at the same time very deep tune with a nice boogie beat and an almost trancey lead. On "Play Your Part" he goes more minimal and creates a subtle but very funky tune in a cool NY vibe. By playing 'Karasu' in clubs or hearing it when my friends played it, I realised how efficient it is and especially how euphoric it works on people, it's a dance monster with a spiritual theme and yeah, it kind of makes you get higher. There are many other things that I could say about this record but there's nothing better than listening to it yourself. So I hope you enjoy it as much as we do and thank you for your time. Alex Dallas (Drumpoet Community).

Review: Let There Be House welcome Queen B and Lee Wilson for a big and soulful new single here that spans all eras of house music. The six-minute 'Nobody Else,' is built on a knotted bassline that never lets up. The silky drums call to mind Kings of Tomorrow and the timeless diva vocal up top is never going to age. It's a feel-good tune with plenty of colourful xylophone melodies. On the reverse is a Glen Horsborough remix that lays down big piano energy that is sure to make for plenty of unforgettable and floor-filling end of night moments.

Review: 541 Belgium is still very much in the gam after all its successful years of output. This time we had a very tasty looking sample from some oh their closest homies and it's all gone blazing with Sandro Silva and Quintino's "Epic" - a Chicago-coated house track with a seriously menacing bass drum and sharp rave stabs! Goodwill teams up with Hook N Sling for "Take You Higher", a 7am Ibiza kind of thing; followed up by a mix of the same track by Rogerseventytwo - shuffling beats, boot-shaking lyrics and just a whole load of house vibes.