Review: All proceeds and profits from this new drop on Selections will be donated to Black Lives Matter charities, making it an even more appealing offer beyond the sheer quality of the house heads gathered together here. The mighty Kai Alce leads the charge with the sweet and bumping 'Hear The Waves', which is followed up by the punchy but warm 'Furacao Dento' by Demuir. Nick Holder opens the B side up with a killer slice of broken beat house, all crooked percussion locked into a deep, rolling groove. 83 West finishes the record off with a teasing, slow-release heater that keeps the energy simmering throughout - a masterfully executed cut to hold the dancefloor under a spell.
Amir Alexander - "I Remember House When House Was House" (feat Cecilia Bruun Hansen) (7:11)
Nicson & An Gelo - "Hold Your Horses" (8:03)
Thomas Wood - - "Always Underground" (6:19)
Review: Barcelona's Subwax emporium is an umbrella company for a variety of different labels and acts as a distributor for them, too. For this year's Record Store Day festivities, their Subwax Bcn sublabel returns with a tightly knit collaborative EP by some of the clan's most trusted affiliates. The always on-point Amir Alexander touches down with a stepping, sci-fi-leaning house cut in the shape of "I Remember House When House Was House"; Nicson and An Gelo spin the gears down into deep mode with "Hold Your Horses", and Thomas Wood's "Always Underground" takes care of the dancefloor jerking thanks to its rolling, bumping Chicago-inspired bassline.
Review: End of Level Boss Records is a joint project from Tusk and Cyclonix celebrating the world of video game technostalgia through electronic music. End Of Level Boss 1 Ganondorf. Ganondorf is the humanoid form of Ganon, the ultimate embodiment of evil and hatred, the nemesis of Link, and the final boss in many of the Legend of Zelda games. Ganondorf is a formidable sorcerer and a shapeshifter. His hatred is so intense that he can survive even the total obliteration of his body and remain conscious. An ultimate bad ass.
Review: French label D3 - which when pronounced in French sounds like their word for Detroit - is a decade old and celebrates the milestone with a special three-part EP series. As has always been the case over that 10 year period, the sounds it serves up are deep and housey. This various artists affair kicks off with AsTreJinkins' slow and propulsive 'Terror' before some nice airy and live sounding broken beats from New Digital Fidelity. Moroka picks up the pace with some hi-tek soul that sounds straight from the Motor City and Byron The Aquarius shows off his mastery of the keys again with a dreamy deep cut 'Tua Su Ra'. Nico Lahs shuts down with a heavyweight beatdown in the form of 'It's Spelled BARI.'
Review: Scottish label Craigie Knowes are back with Knowes Universal Broadcast: Seg 1. Considering the likes of local heroes Vince Watson and Stephen Brown; we know the Scots have knack for hi-tech soul and this release does not disappoint. Starting out with "Baltra" then the epic acid odyssey "Fade Away", we then get treated to the soulful and emotive electro of Highfield Casual's "Highfield Daze" which will appeal to fans of Gerald Hanson or Gerald Donald without a doubt. On the flip Natureboy Gold (what a name!) serves up "Prozac Test" which is reminiscent of Laurent Garneier's acid epics of the mid noughties; you can't beat that for a compliment can you? Finally "Qaua" by Stephen Simpson closes the release out in sublime and dubby deep house territory; loving' it! Tip!
Bassmental - "It's The Music" (feat Charles McDougalds - King Street club)
Bassmental - "Just Wanna Be With U" (feat Charles McDougalds - King Street Mentality club)
Nu Phonic - "I Wanna Be Your Lover" (feat Charvoni - King Street Trackin Yah dub)
Review: In April this year Jersey house legend Kerri Chandler compiled his 23-track House Legends mix for King Street Sounds. This first sampler puts to the spot light Chandler's Bassmental project with Japanese producer Shuji Hirose and King Street Sounds co-founder Yahya McDougald. The slamming, vocal fuelled "It's The Music" is woozy on Rhodes but energetic enough to inspire a gym class of heavy steppers, while Charles McDougalds' gnarly vocals on "Just Wanna Be With You" act in a call and response to the rest of the track's euphoric antics. Nu Phonic's I" Wanna Be Your Lover" lands in the middle of Kerri Chandler's original mix CD, and for good reason, as it's the most energised and danceable track you would wanna hear Kerri drop.
Michael James & Benjamin Joseph - "The Island" (7:53)
Nick Beringer - "Nyx" (5:52)
Pascal Benjamin - "Falkhill" (6:32)
Review: The next airdrop from the good ship Constant Black is a various artists affair with four tracks from four artists guaranteed to find a home in your extended micro sesh. Pascal Benjamin takes the lead with "Falkhill", locking into a Romanian-flavoured minimal breaks formation that rolls in resplendent fashion with a particularly choice vocal lick from an undisclosed RnB track. Michael James and Benjamin Joseph nudge the pitch fader up and dial in the swing for the decidedly funky wiggler "The Island", and TIJN keeps things bumping but works in some sharper drum sounds for the tough but bouncy "Maybe". Nick Beringer finishes the record off with the chunky funk of "Nyx", calling to mind Mike Shannon amongst others.
Review: The Black Ice Productions crew were putting out some mighty fine garage house back in the early-to-mid nineties and their infamous - and pioneering - EP's have become rather costly on the second-hand market. Thankfully, their first EP on Swing Street has been reissued and is now available in its original vinyl format! This is the sort of sound that plenty of contemporary house producers emulate on a constant basis, but it's Black Ice's freedom of expression which renders them so relevant to this day. Choppy samples, broken chords and viciously jacking beats make up these six house nuggets, and if you're into your Dance Mania s*** then you should look no further and purchase on sight...
Review: The third Naif release surfaces with a track a piece from two of label boss Efdemin's favourite producers. Spectral Sound mainstay Bodycode burrows deep into your psyche with the worming sounds that unfurl on "A New Species". Beginning as some sort of slightly uneasy deep jack, the track accrues several layers of throbbing energy as it progresses to strangely hypnotic effect. Nina Kraviz is no strangers to Efdemin's label having featured on last year's inaugural release and the Russian presides over the B Side with "Zlobnii Mikrob". On its own, the track which sees Kraviz's whispered vocals slip out over a relentless minimal bump and liquid melody is pleasant enough, but sits in the colossal shadow of the A Side.
Review: Dirt Crew's popular Deep Love series returns for a fifteenth time, with another all-star cast of label favourites and special guests providing a quintet of smooch-friendly deep house treats. Brame & Hamo kick things off with the twinkling pianos, soft focus vocal samples and jazz-flecked beats of "Triple Treat", before Nachtbraker pushes the acid bass up to 11 on the cosmic rumble of "Catch Up". Homework's "Pliester" is a warm and woozy delight full of blissful electronic pianos and US garage influenced chords, while Voyeur impresses with the bumpin', jazz-flecked deep house soul of "The Long Way Home". It's Local Talk regular Kyodai who steals the show, too, with the loopy, off-kilter shuffle of "Tleflicht".
Review: The Dessert Island Discs series continues with yet more arch remixes from across the disco and boogie spectrum. Bubbles The Pimp kicks off the A side with a tasteful treatment of Gil Scott Heron's "Winter In America," which gets rustled up into a sweet and sassy house number with a cheeky acid b-line underneath. Nelly Wilson whips up a storm on the tightly clipped, peak time-oriented "Trapped & Confused". Pierre Pressure's "Love & Beyond" takes it easy on the B side with plenty of fluttering synth wobbles to offset the choppy funk of the guitar - it's a cosmically enhanced floor burner to get you all astral under the collar.
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