A breakthrough artist features on this, the new 7th Sign, which also sees Conforce deliver a slick remix. Leeon, a Glasgow-based DJ and producer, uses his debut to serve up three beautiful slices of the proper machine soul we’ve come to expect from 7th Sign.
Ferrispark Records presents a 3 track EP from new artist JBSF. Very deep and emotional sampled based Detroit influenced dance music.
Moomin is back with another adventure into charming house music. Like a fountain of sweetness the works of Smallville’s wunderkind are spreading all over the world.
Cinematic’s latest release comes from Reggie Dokes in the form of “Child of The Sun EP”. An inspired artist hailing from Detroit, Reggie spoils us with three funk fuelled cuts via the motor city.
Wonderfull languorous slice of laid back slo mo house that fuses together loose limbed percussion, an old school riff and haunting, pitch shifted vocals. The tracks builds in intensity as the arrangement progresses, bringing the piano to the fore and shifting up a gear with hypnotic vocals that give the record a truly balaeric feel, quality stuff.
New project by Dj Aakmael featuring 4 raw and smoked out house bangers shouting out to many of the Deep House legends. Lots of gritty, dirty chopped-up chords riding heavy beats showinf Aakmael’s love for that classic sound, featuring deep and warm organ chords topped off with lovely voices.
Ethereal Sound present a strong various ep with Joe Drive, Natan H, Bejamin Brunn and Dazeman.
A new release in the Faces Series on White label, featuring two sweet deep house tracks that go back to the early days of Chicago, but done in a nice contemporary way by Julius Steinhoff and Oskar Offermann.
‘Anvers’, the French name for Belgian port Antwerp, starts in unassuming manner, synths swimming, bass pondering, a gentle cymbal tapping. It’s the sound of thoughtful admiration, as if Lapien is standing in front of the city’s towering gothic cathedral, motionless in the midst of a now modern metropolis. But then, as loops spring uncomfortably back and an insistent beat thunders into the fray, one realizes that this is no time for admiring architecture; this is a night drive through the city – coarse orange streetlamps, chrome blue reflections, droplet-stained window panes. Remixes by Conforce and Fred P.
Chicago influenced tracks for the second release on the label, coming from East Soul Person aka Ilya Nazarov
Deep Explorer imprint comes correct with a limited edition white label 10″ from Kai Alce. The Willow EP positively drips with Detroit machine soul; the title track features floating synths and a subtle bassline working beneath Azulu Phantom’s vocals. This leads into the excellent “Track 3”, which features some raw, brittle drums, soulful moans and an unforgettably deep bass line. Flip over for the acid-tinged Deep Explorer remix of the title track, which takes the original and spans it out over an entire side of wax with subtly hypnotic results.
Pablo Roman Alcalá aka Beaner brought some seriously sexy bent grooves over to Brooklyn for those ever lasting late night benders. He returns to take his place on the dance floor with four deep, fractured after-hours jams. The name “Mixed Doubles” is apt, as you’ll find the pairings of unlikely elements on these tracks aligning nicely… before they are slowly pried apart.
Sudden Drop ditch the techno sounds their release and head back to the more classic deep house sounds that signified the launch of the label. Ivano Tetelepta is the man chosen to lead the way back to house with this excellent double header of super slick sounds. ‘Throwdown House’ treads a hypnotic path whilst flipsides ‘That Deep Shit’ opts for a more traditional deep house vibe.
New release on Firecracker Recordings sublabel Shevchenko by Vakula, with three cuts dusted, dubbed and pushed to the limits of abstraction yet still in the realms of house and techno.
Deep deep house music for the heads, recorded on analog gear and heavily infiltred with his own field recordings. Nothing lightweight, just the heavy goods!
Following numerous mix CDs, singles and doublepack vinyl EPs in 2011, jus-Ed begins 2012 with a typically impressive collection of soft-focus deep house with a rugged, floor-friendly edge. As ever, there’s a high musical content (see the haunting acid bass and twinkling pianos of “Confused Passion”), alongside rougher cuts that explore the darker recesses of early morning deep house. Take, for example, the dreamy synths and ice-cold acid of “Trip To Hamburg” or liquid atmospherics of “Mr Pete’s Cribby”. Like the rest of Endurance, they’re inspirationally melodic without losing dancefloor focus.
New release on Rawax by Brother G. Cool jacking house track with a raw edge and a little retro touch.
Meakusma presents “ReCast”, an essential collection of previously released and unreleased tracks by Madteo, re-interpreted and remixed by Anthony Shake Shakir, Marcellus Pittman and Kassem Mosse.
Quality various artists EP on Dial’s lovely subdivision. Deep & psychedelic house for all 3Chairs / Kassem Mosse etc. fans. By Palisade aka Redshape (who comes up with an outstanding journey into Avantgarde based on the feedbacks of John Cage’s ”Pendulum Music”), Smallville’s shooting star Moomin, and RNDM.
Skylax is back with the fantastic first album of Jason Grove. A diverse range of lush & warm French house tracks on one of the finest classic US/Jersey inspired house albums in years.
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