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Stop Making Sense – boat parties
With less than two weeks to go, it’s time to book your boat party tickets for Stop Making Sense. The Tisno festival have also announced that Ukranian DJ and producer Vakula has been added to the lineup, bringing his distinctive …
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Lord Of The Isles – Greane / Gigha
Lord Of The Isles continues to churn out quality music at a prolific rate. Here the Scotsman lays down two lengthy tracks on Phonica, each a cosmic disco epic in its own right. ‘Greane’ starts …
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Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts Remixes
The heavily-hyped Raw Cuts Remixes arrive with a slight but somewhat inevitable feeling of deflation on first listen. Yes Marcellus Pittman, Mike Huckaby and Recloose (an achingly tasteful lineup) are all remixing Motor City Drum …
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Stop Making Sense 2014
Stop Making Sense returns to the picturesque Croatian town Tisno on July 31st. Nestled in a secluded bay and now in its fifth year, the underground party prides itself on superbly handpicked lineups spread across a number of …
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Kit Grill – Changing Patterns
An excellent freebie from Kit Grill’s full-length record Mirror Image, playing with serene melodies and brittle percussive textures. The glimmering synth patterns sound at once primitive and enchanting.
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Simba – Phase Seq One
Laced with jazz samples and dusty surfaces, Simba’s brand of house music is clearly indebted to Moodymann’s smokey Detroit style. His sample-heavy ‘Three Kays’, released on Stripped & Chewed last year, crackled with delicious, downbeat …
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6th Borough Project – Borough 2 Borough
Everything about 6th Borough Project’s long-awaited follow-up to their debut LP is refreshingly low-key. Coming from two accomplished producers in their own right – The Revenge and Craig Smith – it is a masterfully …
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Theophilus London – Rio feat. Menahan Street Band (Nick Monaco Edit)
Soul Clap Records are throwing out a free remix of Theophilus London by Nick Monaco. The vocals are sweetly soulful (or gratingly sickly depending on where you stand), but it’s the chugging, hollowed-out percussion that really grabs you. Get your …
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Pelski Podcast 009 – Ben La Desh
Rotterdam house producer Ben La Desh steps up for our ninth Pelski Podcast. The Dutch DJ has slowly but surely built an impressive body of work across the likes of Sleazy Beats, Dirt Crew, Outernational and Young Adults.
Each release …
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CTEPEO ’57 – The Missouri Breaks EP
CTEPEO ’57′s debut EP dropped on Tartelet Records at the end of last year to mixed reviews. Stuffed full of brittle 808 drums and cosmic sonics that included everything from white noise to tape hiss, it was finely produced, albeit …
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Palms Trax – I Wanna
Palms Trax used to produce ominous bass tracks under his Drop/Dead alias. Last year he arrived on the house scene with a bit of a bang. His sturdy drum machines turned heads thanks to a brittle, snappy quality which offered …
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Stupid Human – Gang of Wolves
Standing head and shoulders above the deluge of so-called edit maestros, Stupid Human offers a breath of fresh air to the scene. Take his cheeky ‘Swamp Funk’ from back in 2009, which fused a peculiar …
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Andy Ash – Workin’ EP
Best known for his low-slung disco edits for the On The Prowl imprint, Andy Ash has moved into sturdier house terrain in recent years. The Liverpudlian is a firm favourite with discerning crate-diggers and boasts …
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Cuthead – Resteessen LP
We gave Cuthead’s album the full Pelski seal of approval last year with a shining five star review. Now we have a fantastic follow up: all of the material that didn’t make it on to the album is being …
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William Onyeabor’s “Good Name” by Joakim feat. Akwetey
Somewhat of a cult musician, William Onyeabor is the Nigerian funk artist who incorporated synthesisers into his pop productions decades before others producers thought to have a go. A collection of his tracks from the 1970’s were re-released in October …
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Top 50 remixes / edits of 2013
As regular readers will be more than aware, here at Pelski we love a remix or two. We are particularly partial to a good ol’ disco edit. So expect plenty of colourful funk cuts and summery remixes in our belated …
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Mix Of The Week: Tim Sweeney
Stateside radio DJ Tim Sweeney mixes 50 of his favourite tunes from 2013. The Beats In Space host spins an ecelectic selection, encompassing everything from Axel Boman to Midland to Erol Alkan. Get stuck in – you’re sure to find …
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West Norwood Cassette Library – 8 Track Cartridge
While West Norwood Cassette Library’s output has more often than not focused on breaks and garage, he has always been most effective when putting out rugged house grooves. His first excursion into straight 4X4 territory …
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Top 100 original tracks of 2013
Our favourite time of the year – a time when we can sit back and arbitrarily handpick the ‘best’ tracks of the last 12 months. Even the staunchest of snobs (that’d be us) could not deny that 2013 was a …
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Mike Simonetti – Get Lost
Mike Simonetti turns in a chugging disco edit of Billy Byrd’s ‘Lost In The Crowd’. The funky bassline and uproarious vocals are all correct and present, with some additional steel-tipped percussion. Serious party fodder. For another great version of this …
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KRL – I Wanna Be With You (2014 Refix)
KRL is handing out an updated version of his soulful number ‘I Wanna Be With You’. Some snappier drums and heftier bass revise the 2009 classic, which appeared on the early Wolf Recordings 12″ I Wanna See All My Friends …
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Doc Daneeka – Walk On In feat. Ratcatcher
You never quite know what sort of production Doc Daneeka is going to serve up, but the one constant is quality. Oh, and he often likes to insert that misty-eyed sound of crackling vinyl (which …
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Spaventi Dazzurro – Lonely
If you’re looking for ‘charming’ and ‘downbeat’, look elsewhere. Spaventi Dazzurro, serves up a hefty onslaught of writhing acid techno not for the faint-hearted. The ‘Jerk Out’ version is a huge lumbering beast of mangled …
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Pelski Podcast 007 – Kid Sublime
Our latest Pelski Podcast arrives via Amsterdam and one of our favourite producers, Kid Sublime – an artist who straddles both hip hop and house with equal aplomb. But if all of his sets and productions have one thing in …
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Medlar interview
Tipping its hat to Detroit and Chicago classics, Medlar’s brand of tastefully jazz-infused house music has pricked the ears of critics and discerning listeners alike. Last month he released his debut album Sleep, an absorbing late-night journey permeated by …
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Floating Points – Love Me Like This
Floating Points’ classic ‘Love Me Like This’ is more than five years old. It encompasses all of the elements that make a Floating Points production great, tying disparate, often odball elements into one spacey journey that simply shouldn’t sound this…
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Nebraska – Something From The 90s
Ali Gibbs AKA Nebraska (of ‘This Is The Way’ fame) is handing out a track so darned good it seems a shame to throw it out for free. Purportedly recorded in the early 90s, it revolves around squidgy 303 bass …
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The Candle Family – Love Theme From Two Hearts
Straight-up slo-mo funk here from The Candle Family, an elusive musical duo brought together by their mutual love for obscure disco records. Love Theme From Two Hearts, the first release on their Unforgettable Music …
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Borrowed Identity – Leave Your Life
Young German-Romanian producer Borrowed Identity serves up some achingly deep house on the inaugural Mistress Recordings release – the sublabel of DVS1′s HUSH, renowned home to purist techno. Mistress aims to widen HUSH’s horizons, straddling …
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Cuthead – Everlasting Sunday
Cuthead has provided the weird and wonderful Uncanny Valley with some of its best material: his 2010 ‘Sinner’ was the series’ trump card, and the solid ‘Brother’ and ‘Slenda Daddy’ further cemented the former hip …
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Christy Essien – You Can’t Change A Man (Borrowed Identity Edit)
Christy Essien Igbokwe’s 1979 Afro-funk gem ’You Can’t Change A Man’ has been reemerging lately thanks in no small part to the African Shakedown 12″ released earlier in the year, which brought together four long-lost Afro-disco edits. Here, Borrowed Identity …
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Record store up for sale on eBay
In a strange turn of events, a classic vinyl record shop owner has put his store, On The Beat Records, up for sale on eBay. The 34-year-old business, located near Tottenham Court Road, has been listed on the online auction …
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Cuthead – Everlasting Sunday
A freebie from Cuthead’s superb hip hop/house LP out last month (read our review here), title track ‘Everlasting House’ encapsulates the downbeat, sometimes erratic nature of the album. Orchestral strings slide in and out of the track as fuzzy …
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FCL – Holding Our Nick
It is hard not to at least make mention of FCL’s last release ‘It’s You’ – a limited 12” which quickly gave rise to inflated Discogs prices and trading of online vinyl rips. It was …
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Pelski’s ‘ten tracks’ for Dance Till You’re Dead
One of our favourite blogs, the long-running, Texas-based Dance Till You’re Dead, asked me to contribute the second installment of their new ‘ten tracks’ feature (the first in the series came from Huntleys & Palmers bossman Andrew Thomson).
I’ve …
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Crystal & S. Koshi – Break The Dawn / From Red To Violet
Beats In Space is an online radio show that has wormed its way into the collective psyche thanks in no small part to the charisma and loveable enthusiasm of its host and creator Tim Sweeney. …
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Baba Stiltz – Our Girls
The sometimes oddball, always interesting Studio Barnhus imprint turns in a typically colourful release. 20-year-old Stockholm native Baba Stiltz provides three versions of one track, playing around with the tempo and arrangement on each. Its …
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KRL – Remember Donny (Greymatter Remix)
Initially released on what remains one of the strongest Wolf Recordings releases (Dancing In Outer Space), this remix is now being thrown out for free on Juno Download. A forceful, rusty snare kicks throughout as a swirling soul sample crackles …
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Mix Of The Week: Disco Delicious
There are only a few survivors from the ‘heyday of mp3 blogs’ (circa 2008): Keytars & Violins, Palms Out, Discobelle and a small handful of others are still going strong. Aussie-based Disco Delicious is another, and undoubtedly one …
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Max Graef – The Love Tapes
Berlin’s rising star Max Graef hasn’t put a foot wrong yet. Earlier this year ‘Am Fenster’, a bold and brilliant excursion into stripped-down Detroit jazz, alerted us to the 19-year-old talent. Since, he’s had a …
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Damiano von Erckert feat Tito Wun – Reelluv
Continuing our Damiano von Erckert obsession (read our review here), we’re pleased to see that the Cologne producer is handing out one of the many highights from his dusty Love Based Music LP for free. ‘Reeluv’ is a funky, …
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Damiano von Erckert – Love Based Music
We gave Damiano von Erckert’s debut album Mr Pink, What Have You Been Smoking? a lustrous five star review just six months ago (here). His second album arrives on AVA. to a greater …
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Prophets of the South – Ek Maak Julle Dance
Tief is the eminent London club night based at Corsica Studios which focuses solely on the deeper side of electronic music. A few months back the party spawned a record label whose inaugural release was …
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Frank Booker – Hope
About a year old, this one. But it’s a welcome freebie from one of our favourite producers, Frank Booker. The New Zealand-based artist has been churning out Afro-tinged house and disco production for a couple of years now, each focusing …
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Messalina 9 – Jamie Fatneck / Lucci Capri
I first heard Jamie ‘Fatneck’ Low’s edit of ‘Billie Jean’ belted out of a speaker stack during Greg Wilson’s lively set at Glastonbury this year – the only DJ lucky enough to have gotten his …
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Murat Tepeli – The Jazz Funk (Damiano Von Erckert Mix)
The bossman behind the fantastic Ava. Records (check our five star review of his excellent LP Mr Pink, What Have You Been Smoking?) is giving out his remix of Murat Tepeli’s ‘The Jazz Funk’, previously confined to a vinyl-only …
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Munk – Nigerian Jam
Munk is best known for indie-tainted disco, but his recent five-track Dirty Glam Jams EP on Maxi has a real dirty afro-disco strut. And XLR8R are giving out arguably the best track from the release, ‘Nigerian Jam’, a dusty summer …
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Stop Making Sense 2013
So popular has Croatia become with dance revellers that the Dalmatian coast has loosely been dubbed the ‘new Ibiza’ – a worrying supposition, perhaps, for devotees of this largely unspoilt party destination.
Thankfully, Stop Making …
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Rayko – Rock My World
Rayko is one of those producers who hammers out releases at such a monstrous rate that it’s hard to keep up. Due to the sheer quantity of output he’s not the kind of producer whose …
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Prins Thomas – Bobletekno & Flau Pappadans Versions
Anyone who’s been lucky enough to catch one of Prins Thomas’ DJ sets will know he takes a refreshing ‘anything-goes’ approach – laying bare a weird and wonderful spectrum of house and disco. The same …
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Black Booby – Hot Scotch EP
Hot on the heels of Black Booby Volume 1 is the second installment from the alter-ego of Richard Rogers, a London-based dance music veteran whose love of disco, soul and funk makes for a lively …
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James Last – Inner City Blues (CaZ Edit)
James Last’s Kraut Funk version of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Inner City Blues’ is one of those rare covers that has secured classic status in its own right. Last is a German big band leader who has sold over 70 million records …
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Metaphor – Summertime (Kon Disco Edit)
Kon appears to be have been crowned the king of all things disco: Soul Clap dubbed him the “best disco DJ in the world”; Gilles Peterson hailed him as the “edit king of 2011″; and BBE labelled him the “king …
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Gay Marvine – Bath House Etiquette Vol. 3
Bath House Etiquette is an offshoot of cult edits label Secret Mixes Fixes, a platform for some rare and delectable disco edits by Gay Marvine aka Chuck Hampton. Here he goes to work on four …
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Max Graef & Andy Hart – Heavy Setters EP
Sleazy Beats’ sublabel Black Ops follows its luscious Rebound Round EP by Ben La Desh with an equally charming 12”. Max Graef and Andy Hart team up for a dusty EP of sample-heavy, feel-good deep …
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We’re offering 2 free tickets to Stop Making Sense
Now in its fourth year, the discerning Croatian music festival returns with its biggest lineup yet with the likes of John Talabot, Radio Slave, Âme, Dixon, San Soda and Session Victim topping the bill.
We’ve teamed up with the SMS …
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Pelski Podcast 006 – OOFT!
Our sixth instalment arrives by way of one of our favourite DJs: Ooft! Anyone who likes their house with a sprinkling of disco will be familiar with the Glaswegian’s exceptional pitched-down tracks on the likes of Instruments of Rapture, Delusions …
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Beautiful Swimmers – Son
Beautiful Swimmers finally drop their long-awaited debut album. Their name suggests achingly inoffensive nu-disco fashioned for summer terraces and lazy days by the pool (similar perhaps to Poolside’s Balearic indie-house album Pacific Standard Time). …
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Walter Murphy – A Fifth Of Beethoven (Flight Facilities Edit)
Some tracks have been played so many times it becomes a bit of a cliché - a party faux pas even – to go anywhere near them with a barge pole. But when Greg Wilson dropped Flight Facilities’ new, funked-up …
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Stop Making Sense 2013
Taking its name from Talking Heads’ live 1984 album (or indeed the subsequent film), Stop Making Sense is a clued-up, sun-drenched festival on the Tisno coast. Nestled in a secluded bay and now in its fourth year, the underground …
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Typesun – Last Home (DJ Nature Remix)
DJ Nature’s 2012 Return Of The Savage combined gritty 4X4 textures and a muddied sort of soul to arrive at an arresting, if a touch underwhelming, LP. But Milo Johnson has been putting out utterly …
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Todd Terje – Strandbar
Before ‘Ragysh‘ and ‘Inspector Norse’, Todd Terje’s renown was confined to a much smaller disco niche, despite his hundreds of lovingly produced edits over the years. Then ‘Inspector Norse’ went and changed everything last …
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Boe & Zak – Rudy EP
Not all that long ago each and every release from anonymous duo Tiger & Woods (also Cleo & Patra or Pop & Eye) was greeted by an eager anticipation. Each hand-stamped 12” was a genuine, …
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Fantastic Mr Fox – Power (12″ Edit)
The ever-consistent Fantastic Mr Fox serves up some feline beats on a free cut from his limited 12″ on Black Acre. A slinky, sexy vocal is niftily diced by a hollowed-out garage beat. Heavy on the low-end , it’s a …
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John Talabot and Pional – Destiny (Dubtool Version)
John Talabot, he who can do no wrong, is handing out a free dub version of ‘Destiny’, the original of which was a highlight from album Fin and a collaboration with like-minded producer Pional. The ‘dubtool’ does what it says …
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Pelski Podcast 005 – Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie
Our latest podcast comes from the Swedish pair Mr. Tophat & Art Alfie, curators of the exceptional Karlovak label. Since the imprint’s debut back in January, the duo have already released seven Karlovak EPs (each consisting solely of original material …
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Frank Booker – Edits [KAT]
Edit maestro Frank Booker releases material fairly sporadically, but 2013 has seen the New Zealander on a bit of a roll – the rattling funk of ‘Movin On’ on Kolour LTD a recent highlight. His …
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Richard From Milwaukee – Free Love
Richard From Milwaukee returns to DJ Kaos’ Jolly Jams imprint with an enthralling take on 80’s pop and cosmic disco. ‘Free Love’ works with a future-retro template and then ramps it up tenfold. Enter insatiable, …
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Escort – Cocaine Blues (Sometimes Sound System Edit)
We recently reviewed a remix package of 19-piece disco band Escort, the highlight of which was inarguably Greg Wilson’s 2010 balearic edit of ‘Cocaine Blues’. But for a rework that’ll pack a bigger punch on the floor look no further …
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Catz ’n Dogz & KiNK – Good Love
A collaboration between Catz ’n Dogz and Kink sounds like a match made in heaven (on Claude Von Stroke’s Dirtybird label, no less). But as is often the way with these dream-team collabs you can’t …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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: …
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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.
Hi …
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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.
Ian Pooley’s …
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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 …
Reviews
Norm de Plume – Ohio Replayed
A long time coming, Norm de Plume’s follow up to the first release on his Plumage vinyl-only imprint arrives three years later. But it’s worth the wait.
Two disco edits work that typical Norm de …
Dorisburg – Trust
Clued-up Swedish imprint Aniara continues its strong run of late (standout releases coming by way of Genius of Time and Henrik Bergqvist last year). And Dorsiburg aka Alexander Berg – one half of Nordic production …
Lord Of The Isles – Greane / Gigha
Lord Of The Isles continues to churn out quality music at a prolific rate. Here the Scotsman lays down two lengthy tracks on Phonica, each a cosmic disco epic in its own right. ‘Greane’ starts …
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts Remixes
The heavily-hyped Raw Cuts Remixes arrive with a slight but somewhat inevitable feeling of deflation on first listen. Yes Marcellus Pittman, Mike Huckaby and Recloose (an achingly tasteful lineup) are all remixing Motor City Drum …
Kresy – Sticky
A stalwart of Talabot’s Hivern Discs imprint, Kresy serves up the ‘Who Understands Love’ EP later this month via More Music – containing three original tracks plus a remix by Flux residents Aartket (who provided our latest Pelski Podcast). Grab …
Mano Le Tough – Sorry Is A Useless Word
The second B-side on Mano Le Tough’s Tempus EP is an off-kilter house track; part tinkling melodies, part broken tribal percussion.…
Maxi Mill – Speed Balance Weight
High-energy, syncopated drum programming and a cut-up vocal sample abound in this dancefloor-oriented Rush Hour release.…
Martyn – Bad Chicago
Taken from the Think And Change comp on Nonplus Records, Martyn merges an eerie melody with sharp, organic house hits.…
6th Borough Project – U Know U
Repetitious, low-slung house goodness from our favourite production duo 6th Borough Project. Perfect warm-up fodder.
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Jana Koubkova – Nijana
Czech jazz singer Jana Koubkova’s little-known Afro-pop gem ‘Nijana’ is a lovely slice of downbeat tropical funk. Appeared on last year’s Balearica 15 vinyl-only release.…
Royal Crown Of Sweden – Mälaren
Wonderful piece of muddied, soulful house music on Anthony Naples’ fledgling imprint Proibito released as a limted 12″ last year.…
Deep88 & Melchior Sultana – Yo House
A good dose of misty-eyed piano house always does the trick, and this release on 12records serves up just the right amount of woozy nostalgia.…
Mermaids – Run With The Night
A slow burner released on Ooft!’s Foto Recordings. A repetitious groove slowly unfolds amidst muffled soul snippets and crunchy snares.…
Bob Moses – Far From The Tree
A sublime piece of electronica, all weary atmospherics and haunting vocals, grounded by an unobtrusive house beat. Subdued in all the right ways.…
Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco – In The Disco Last Night
The consistently excellent re-edit label Disco Deviance turns in another winsome release, wielding a hard-hitting funk groove and some rather catchy vocals.…
Fantastic Man – Heartbreaker
Fantastic Man productions are few and far between. But when they do finally arrive they’re of the highest quality. The Aussie’s latest on Let’s Play House is no exception: a funk-laden dancefloor weapon.…
Midland – Diving Bell (Drum Dub)
A robust dancefloor stomper from Midland. The highlight from his Drumtrak EP, released last week on Graded.…
Arthur Russell – Arm Around You
An Arthur Russell classic: his usual lo-fi leftfield disco instrumentation layered over that ashen, off-kilter voice, as distinct and ethereal as ever. It was released in 2004, two years after his death.…
Carter Bros – Full Disco Jacket
A forgotten Rush Hour classic from 2011. The two Australian brothers use a simple twanging guitar as a nagging loop to propel this repetitious disco number forward.…
Mara TK – Run (Moodymann Remix)
A tasty gem nestled in John Talabot’s excellent DJ Kicks compilation which rubs rough experimental beats up against Mara TK’s quirky soul croon. A bumpy, clanging ride that nevertheless has some real charm.…
Moloko – Sing it back (Herbert’s Tasteful Dub)
Bumpy, oddball remix of Moloko’s ‘Sing It Back’ that works a chinking machine rhythm. Released in 1998 but sounding every bit the modern classic.…
Smith N’ Hack – To Our Disco Friends
Released in 2007, this is the oft overlooked B-side to Smith N’ Hack’s chugging remix of ’Moving Like A Train’ by Herbert. It’s an offkilter piece of strutting, guitar-flecked disco.…
Daniel Avery – Naive Response
One of many dark and bleepy highlights from Daniel Avery’s Drone Logic LP, released via Erol Alkan’s eclectic imprint Phantasy. ‘Naive Response’ is a schizoid sort of machine-funk gone haywire. Plug in.…
Tom Noble Edit – Africa Bump
A funky, pulsing afro-funk edit from Tom Noble. Released in 2009 as a limited 12″ on Peoples Potential Unlimited.…
Rahaan – Make Me Hot
The Lumberjacks In Hell label offers up another ace EP, this time a lengthy comp entitled Chicago Services. The standout comes from Rahaan with this infectious, low-slung disco burner.…
Max Graef – Sensation
Up-and-coming 19 year old Max Graef is producing gem after gem. ‘Sensation’ is taken from his first appearance on Melbourne Deepcast, MDC Mates. For a review of his first full length EP on the label, The Love Tapes, …
Simba – Three Kays
A bumpy, vintage cut from Simba revolving around a crackling sample that soothes the soul. B-side on Stripped & Chewed EP 005.…
Lost Scripts – I’ll Be Watching You
Lost Scripts’ – aka John Talabot and Pional – ‘I’ll Be Watching You’ is a typically off-kilter slice of electronica, with buoyant, rickety drums, a bubbly melody and an ominous fuzz of bass.…
Frank Booker – Movin On
Everything Frank Booker touches turns to gold. Here’s a typically bass-heavy chugger on Kolour LTD – all submerged, twinkling funk.…
The Revenge – Wreck My Love
The Revenge returns with his first original production in two years. Released on his new label, Roar Groove, Body Fusion is a four-track EP. Wreck My Love is the clear highlight with its electro bassline and crackled female vocal.…
Midland – Checkbob
A raucous tribal excursion from Midland on Autonomous Africa Vol.2.…
Trevor Dandy – Is There Any Love
Trevor Dandy’s 1970s funk classic ‘Is There Any Love’ has been sampled in recent years by Kid Cudi and Monsters of Folk. But nothing beats the pure soul of the original.…
Change – Holiday (Late Nite Tuff Guy Edit)
This edit appeared on the limited white label release Tuff Cut #03, and it’s an ecstatic, bumpy take that’ll have everyone throwing their hands in the air come the chorus.…
Christy Essien – You Can’t Change A Man
This 1979 afro-disco gem recently resurfaced on an African Shakedown 12″. Deliciously funky and ragged bass bumps underneath Christy Essien’s gorgeous vocal work.…
Ptaki – Krystyna
Ptaki’s addition to The Very Polish Cut Outs series is typically quirky. ‘Krysyna’ is a slow-burning gem that’s strangely catchy.…
Pional – The Onset
One of Pional’s earlier productions – a summer classic from 2010′s Hivern a L’Estiu Vol.2.…
Jamie Trench – Locks, Frocks & Two Floating Sparrows
Simple, fun disco edit using Dusty Springfield’s more than familiar ‘Spooky’ acapella. Grab the mp3s here.…
The Mole – Lockdown Party (DJ Sprinkles’ Crossfaderama)
A repetitious and addictive DJ Sprinkles remix of The Mole’s new single. Sprinkles brings the vocals to the fore and gives the snappy percussion some tropical flutter. Soulful and groovey if a tad on the rambling side (clocking in at …
Paul Woolford – Untitled
Lots ‘a hype for Paul Woolford’s latest. Available digitally on Hotflush Recordings.…
Tommy Rawson – Brenda Done Died With No Name
Local Talk turn out one of their more interesting house tracks of late. And it’s all about that sassy vocal sample taken from Erykah Badu’s ‘The Cell’. Available digitally and on wax now.…
DJ Steef – Ghost Producer
DJ Steef’s Prime Steef EP on Retrofit is a treat. The A-side is an insatiably cheery house bumper that uses a tasty soul sample to great effect (also check out the Mic Newman aka Fantastic Man remix). Released on 24 …
John Roberts – Palace
One of the straighter cuts on John Roberts’ decidedly experimental second album Fences, ‘Palace’ is a rhythmic tribal workout primed for summer floors.…
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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