Detroit beat down & Chicago oldschool house inspired house cuts. Eight tracks and four locked grooves of raw and diverse House music from the inimitable STL. Constantly changing the game, he nods to KMS style rave with the nasty synth licks of ‘Dark Energy’, while ‘Like This’ nods to earliest Chicago House with wickedly ’80s sounding stabs followed by two minutes of rave-starting air raid sirens. Getting trickier, ‘Don’t Follow Me’ is a pure and deadly piece of drum programing magic.
This EP features starts with out of the ordinary future tracks from Kai Alcé, a signature tool from Theo Parrish and an amazing acid track from Loosefingers aka Larry Heard as only he knows how. Hot raw tracks that are essential for everyone who is on the look out for sincere and refreshing dance music.
Brooks Mosher delivering the heat on Steffi’s label Dolly. Four outstanding funky deep house cuts in the best motor city / Panoramabar tradition.
Tsuba goes back to basics with the launch of Tsuba Limited, a new sub label for vinyl only releases. Rio Padice start the series with 4 underground house cuts, “The Luchador EP” is solid, deep house with a very techy edge to it and a nice mid-paced vibe.
Three other edits by the Italo Deviances founder Marcello Giordani. ‘Stop’ is an Italian release from 1983 with 303, live & electronic drums, and percussions…a very Chicago feeling till the lead vocal starts so become very early 80s Italo Disco! ‘Automatic’ is from an Italian singer / soubrette called Patrizia Pellegrino… warm bass and synth pianos with a space/ flangered lead vocals. ‘P&P’ is a must for all disco lovers, taken from the break of Nightlife Unlimited Peaches & Prunes its a tribute to Ron Hardy.
Phochos has long been a treasured secret, hidden from the general public in a maze of porch housing. Secretely admired by the West Coast cognoscenti, who finally decided to share him with the world, ’cause music, like, wants to be free, you know! Interface Phrase 1 is a deep Dutch techno banger, very much in the style of old Ross 154. Glaciers is a classic ambient Phochos track from the early 2000’s.
Release number four on the scruffy militant wing of the beloved Popular People’s Front label. This time around we have a raw, stripped down and acid-fueled workout from Manchester’s Miguel Manzano.
This 4th release in the 1 Track series is an upbeat track that is build on a romantic classic groove and with a precise arrangement. Slowly building and creating tension is what John Daly can do like no other.
The third release on Snuff Trax comes straight from Snuff Crew. ‘Winter in June’ is a dreamy spacey chicago house track and comes with a Dance Disorder remix.
Dolly goes all raw as we might expect from a label that’s done by a Panoramabar resident dj. Stripped down, bare-naked tracks that show their fragile essence. And in case you wonder why these tracks have such a great Chicago-ish vibe.
The number 13 maybe considered unlucky by some, but not so for Italians. Fittingly, for Uzuri 013 we welcome back Leopoldo Rosa aka Lerosa for his third release on the label – his first being back in 2007 on Uzuri 001. This new 12 inch precedes his forthcoming full length release for the label.
The Hipodrome Of Music 