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Ryan Hemsworth – Perfectly
Ryan Hemsworth is giving away the lead track from his upcoming EP, Still Awake, which drops on May 25 via his website. The Canadian producer bathes the twinkling house track in languide sunshine, all gooey melody and fluttering percussion. Thanks …
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Ben La Desh – Rebound Round EP
Ben La Desh is back for the third outing on Sleazy Beats’ offshoot Black Ops with three cuts that are at once simple, subtle and satisfyingly rich in texture (having previously kick-starter the sub label …
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VA – Wolf EP 18
Wolf Music Recordings has cemented itself as a consistent purveyor of forward-thinking house and disco. Its early 2010 vinyl releases (Paw To The Floor EP in particular) are dead cert classics that helped introduce …
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Cosmic Kids – Big Leg Girls
The Fatback Band’s gloriously funky 1974 hit ‘Wicky Wacky’ has been given a couple of edits over the years. Most successfully by Jamie 3:26, but his take is a rambling 10 minutes in length and has various BPM change-ups that …
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Henrik Berqvist – Go For What Hurts
The debut of Stockholm’s Henrik Berqvist is, simply put, no-nonsense house music. And it also allows me to wheel out that much underused adjective in contemporary electronic music: ‘wintery’ (a welcome change from our usual …
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Nirosta Steel – Everything Erik MacQueen (Gunnard Mix)
Following our recent five star review of Nirosta Steel’s ‘Foxy Pup’ on Hollie Records, we have a freebie from the same producer (AKA Steven Hall) who offers up a cover of Erik MacQueen’s song of the same title. Steven’s charming …
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Mr Beatnick – Savannah EP
‘Savannah’ is the highly anticipated final installment of Mr Beatnick’s Synthetes Trilogy, each EP roughly spaced a year apart: the first episode, Synetheses, focused on his then-staple sound of crackling, off-beat hip hop-inspired house; …
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Nirosta Steel – Foxy Pup
The sounds of yesteryear will always be emulated by musicians: there are a lot of new tracks that sound, or try to sound, old. But it is a lot rarer to find an old record …
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Four Tet – For These Times
Recent years have seen Four Tet gravitate towards more traditional house and techno structures, eschewing his jazz and experimental roots. And on ‘For These Times’ (taken from Nonplus Records’ Think and Change comp) Four Tet …
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Eddie C interview
Fresh from his excellent second album Country City Country (read our review here), we caught up with Eddie C for a quick chin-wag about the Canadian’s early crate-digging habits, his modest recording equipment and Berlin’s multifarious music scene.
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Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie – Dusty Ballrooms EP
Junk Yard Connections, a Stockholm-based vinyl-only label, is the slightly more subdued alternative to Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie’s new imprint, the floor-friendlier Karlovak. The Swedish newcomers have carved out a distinctively rough sound across …
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Pelski Podcast 003 – Ben Sun
A welcome counterpoint to the current deluge of naff deep house, Ben Sun’s music is genuine, finely produced house bliss, with just the right amount of brooding. And it’s clear the London-based Aussie and label boss prizes quality over quantity, …
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Maribou State – Scarlett Groove
Maribou State are a London duo putting out an ethereal type of ‘bass’ music. Inevitably, comparisons have been drawn with Disclosure – but these guys offer something a little more complex, a little deeper. ‘Scarlett Groove’ was handed out by …
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Romare – Love Songs: Part One
Romare’s acclaimed first EP wore the po-faced title Meditations on Afrocentrism and mined its samples from a multitude of songs, speeches, interviews and films to purportedly join the dots between African and African-American music. But …
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Wbeeza – Mo Bella EP
Located a million miles from the Michigan motor city, London-based imprint Third Ear has nevertheless done a tremendous job of disseminating Detroit house this side of the pond. The Hackney label has gone from strength …
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Damiano von Erckert & Tito Wun – Mr Pink, What Have You Been Smoking?
The playful album title of Mr Pink, What Have You Been Smoking? (a reference to Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs) is a sign of things to come on a record that positively beams with vintage soul. …
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Velour – Speedway / Dial
Following Velour’s debut on Night Slugs in 2010, Julio Bashmore once again teams up with Hyetal for an intriguing splurge of stomping electro-funk. ‘Speedway’ is one half tough, structured 808 drums and one half sleazy …
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Session Victim interview
Hauke Freer and Matthias Reiling met in 1997, but it wasn’t until ten years later that they formed Session Victim – a name that has come to be associated with a consistently solid output of rugged, organic house music.
2012 …
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Hugo H – Chante vs James EP
The title track from Lumberjacks in Hell’s latest EP is one of those highly sought-after weapons, played out for years by just a handful of jocks, including Hugo H himself, Rahaan, Jamie 3:26 and, lately, …
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Eddie C – Country City Country
Eddie C’s 2011 album Parts Unknown displayed his fondness for eclectic crate-digging and a flair for manipulating obscure, determinedly warm samples. The Canadian’s follow-up LP, released on both vinyl and CD, is lighter on the …
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Sarp Yilmaz – I Care Because You Don’t
Wistful jazz notes are strewn across this fantastically smoky, Detroit-indebted house EP from Sarp Yilmaz – a Turkish producer whose output over the past four years has been heavily characterised by funk and blues samples. …
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Szjerdene – Arrow
Szjerdene, pronounced JhurDEEN as her website helpfully points out, has drenched Jacques Greene and Koreless’ ‘Arrow’ with her own sultry vocals, a glaze of pure R’n’B honey. The original track is an atmospheric soundscape of beautiful electronica. Szjerdene’s feathery voice …
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Rhye – The Fall (Maurice Fulton Alt Mix)
The word ‘genius’ is thrown about a little too liberally in today’s electronic music scene, but I think it is fair to say Maurice Fulton has earnt such lofty praise. And here he delivers what …
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Autre Ne Veut – Anxiety
It should be no surprise given the title of Autre Ne Veut’s (real name Arthur Ashin) second full-length outing, that it is not for the feint of heart. This is an R&B record packed with …
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Ian Pooley – What I Do
Taken from the album ‘What I Do’, house legend Ian Pooley offers a bubbling analogue track, full of gentle quirks, carried by a chirpy vocal, buoyant bass and vintage synths. An inoffensive, thoroughly charming piece of house music.
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Ben Sun – Your Footprints
Summer comes early on the latest Delusions of Grandeur release from the aptly named Ben Sun, another Aussie producer cooking up a storm with his deeper than deep productions.
The title track is arguably his …
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Daniel Avery – Drone Logic (Factory Floor / Gabe Gurnsey Remix)
Daniel Avery’s original ‘Drone Logic’ on Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound is a fairly abrasive piece of techno that positively quakes under its own analogue weight. London-based electronica band Factory Floor pull the thing back a …
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HNNY interview
Stockholm’s HNNY announced himself towards the end of 2011 with a divisive white label: a house edit of Mariah Carey’s 1984 power ballad ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’. With its menacing bass notes and jagged synth stabs, HNNY’s …
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The Right Now – Call Girl EP
A slinky r’n’b offering from Chicago-based band The Right Now. The original cut is a sublime live disco recording that goes full whack: lush keys, guitar lines, zesty horns and a sugar-sweet female vocal. So …
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FaltyDL – Hardcourage
Over the course of six years, FaltyDL AKA Drew Lustman has jettisoned between refined uk garage, roughed-up jungle and a rugged, hybrid sort of house music. He has actively avoided genre pigeonholes – even outright …
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Roman Flügel – Even More
German techno maestro Roman Flügel fittingly turns in some peak-time fodder for Clone Jack For Daze, an imprint known for its no-nonsense house bangers.
‘Even More’ hammers a hefty and unwavering machine drum; and a …
Jimpster – Porchlight and Rockingchairs
Presently the brains behind Freerange Records and Delusions of Grandeur, Jamie Odell aka Jimpster has been in the game for the past 20 years. On his sixth studio album Porchlight and Rockingchairs, he plies …
Dark Sky – In Brackets EP
Departing from some of their harder-edged productions, South London trio Dark Sky arrive on fledgling New York-based imprint Mister Saturday Night with a decidedly deep and emotive 12”.
‘In Brackets’ is arguably the money shot: …
VA – Escort Remixed
It’s interesting that the RAC rework takes top bill on this mammoth remix package of 19-piece disco band Escort. Because it is the Greg Wilson mix that so obviously stands head and shoulders above the …
Ryan Hemsworth – Perfectly
Ryan Hemsworth is giving away the lead track from his upcoming EP, Still Awake, which drops on May 25 via his website. The Canadian producer bathes the twinkling house track in languide sunshine, all gooey melody and fluttering percussion. Thanks …
Blanc 1 – It’s All Over
Slinky cut on John Talabot’s vinyl-only Hivern Discs. ‘It’s All Over’ is the first in a new series of uncredited tracks, so it’s pretty likely Blanc 1 is either an alias for Talabot himself or another member of the Hivern …
Jay Simon – Faith
A gem from 2012 via Kyle Hall’s Wild Oats imprint: Jay Simon lays some rough and tumble beats across Faith Evans’ 90s r’n’b number ‘I Remember’.…
Batongo – Aguirre (Mano Le Tough remix)
A lush, tropical remix from Mano Le Tough just in time for Summer.…
Young Marco – Later Than You Think
Tribal and analogue synth work collide on this blissful flipside to Young Marco’s latest 12″.
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6th Borough Project – Do It To The Max
A 6th Borough Project classic from 2010: a chunky 100 BPM disco stomper with a serious dose of funk.…
Rune Lindbæk featuring Kurt Maloo – Wonder (Ray Mang Remix)
Kurt Maloo’s deep croon is submerged in lush, subaqautic bass on this remix from disco don Ray Mang. Lovely.…
Monsoon Season ft. Miss Bee – Green On Blue (Moon Boots Remix)
Jkriv’s Deep & Disco Recordings serves up another record with the requisite soul and funk firmly in place. Moon Boots lay down a Balearic funk remix to go with Miss Bee’s sublime vocals. Read our five star review of Deep …
Cosmic Kids & Fingerpaint – Manteiga
Title track from a new EP on Let’s Play House by two Los Angeles-based outfits, Cosmic Kids and Fingerpaint, a.k.a. Tyler Blake of Classixx. It a bright and breezy disco houser.…
Moomin – You Neva Know
Moomin gets down and deep with a muddied soul cut on his ‘A Day And A Night EP’.…
Rhye – Open (Jeff Samuel Faded Remix)
We recently posted a free download of Maurice Faulton’s remix of Rhye’s The Fall. Now Jeff Samuel steps up to rework the slow-soul band with a light and breezy house take. Sublime.…
Sandrow M – Schnaubi
Acclaimed Dresden label Uncanny Valley put out intriguing house music always a little left-of-center. Their latest, Prayervan EP from Sandrow M, is no exception. The second B-Side in particular is squidgey amalgam of acid bass and gritty synths.…
Typesun – Last Home (Dj Nature Remix)
Low-slung conga chugger from DJ Nature, due out soon on Futureboogie. A serious, locked-in groove.…
Tito Wun – The Way U Do It
From the insatiably fun Damiano von Erckert & Tito Wun album Mr Pink, What Have You Been Smoking? ”The Way U Do It’ is the best kind of upbeat, sample-heavy funk. Read our five star review here.…
Romare – Taste of Honey (From the City)
Taken from Romare’s second release on Black Acre Love Songs: Part One, the producer mines an irresistibly dusty breakbeat from Lyn Collins’ abundantly pilfered 1972 ‘Think (About It)’. Read our full review here.…
Art Alfie – Easy To Love
A wonderfully muddied piece of downbeat soul, ‘Easy To Love’ is the second b-side on the Back Yard Impressions EP from vinyl-only imprint Junk Yard Connections.…
Mr Beatnick – Savannah
The Savannah EP is the long-awaited third and final element of Mr. Beatnick’s Synthetes Trilogy. Toby Knight directed this video for the title track, due for release on Don’t Be Afraid next month.…
Marco Shuttle – The Vox Attitude (Pangaea Remix)
A tough, stepping edit from Hessle co-founder Pangaea, going to work on Marco Shuttle’s 2011 ‘The Vox Attitude’. Cop the 12″ from Clone.…
First Choice – Love Thang (Genius of Time edit)
Alexander Berg & Nils Krogh aka Genius of Time’s weird and wonky edit of disco classic ‘Love Thang’ has been doing the rounds on Youtube for almost six months. And yet still no sign of a release date…
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Levon Vincent – Speck’s Jam
Levon Vincent serves up three dark house beasts on his boutique Novel Sound imprint. ‘Speck’s Jam’ is the real treat, with some funky subs and bluesy guitar licks.…
The Fantasy – Summer Night in Harlem
The Secret Fixes Mixes series continues with this tight edit from Detroit’s The Fantasy, going to work on Bill Wither’s grizzled 1971 classic ‘Harlem’. …
O B Ignitt – Oh Jabba
The latest on FXHE, the Detroit label run By Omar S, comes from the mysterious O B Ignitt. Could it be another alias for the label boss? It undoubtedly sounds like Omar S. Either way, it’s a deliciously crisp, jittery …
Theo Parrish – Twin Cities
The official reissue of the Theo Parrish classic, originally dropped on Rick Wade’s Harmonie Park imprint in 2004, includes the full 12 minute version of “The Twin Cities”, an impossibly funky beatdown number.…
K & B – Grandma’s Hands
K&B return to No More Hits with a huge release, including the gloriously grizzled soul edit ‘Grandma’s Hands’.…
Mano Le Tough – Please
A highlight from Mano Le Tough’s contemplative house album Changing Days on Permanent Vacation. Pick it up from Beatport.…
Jazzanova – I Human Feat. Paul Randolph (Vakula Remix)
Vakula’s rework is the standout on Sonar Kollektiv’s ‘I Human’ remix package, with a poppy and thoroughly melodic take – at odds with Vakula’s typically rough and off-kilter production style. Buy all three remixes from Beatport.…
Boogie Nite – Do Your Thang
An unreleting, loop-driven disco bomb from the myserious Boogie Nite, which uses a sample from Charles Wright’s ‘Do Your Thing’ to devastating effect. Buy the full release here.
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Medlar – The Sun
Taken from Wolf EP 16, Medlar’s ‘The Sun’ is a sublime Detroit homage – a smoky haze of jazz-induced house.…
Psychemagik – Above The Clouds
On this track Psychemagik employed a 17 piece orchestra, working with the talented string arranger Richard Chester in Air Studios, London. Taken from the Psychemagik – ‘Lunar Escape EP’ released Dec 2012.…
Romanthony – Let Me Show You Love (Gerd’s Crooklyn Full Vox Mix)
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Glasgow Underground put out a remix package of “Let Me Show You Love”, arguably Romanthony’s biggest club hit. Gerd comes up Trumps with his bassy roller.…
Breach and Dark Sky – The Click
Breach (the garage-tinged alias of Ben Westbeech) and Dark Sky’s ‘Click’ gets a suitably foreboding video, a shifty glimpse into gangland goings-on. The track in question is the highly sought-after ‘Click’, a skittish, dark house offering, available as a limited …
Soulphiction – Drama Queen
The Philpot bossman delivers a clamour of abstract soul on his latest.…
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