James Johnston dives in even deeper territory with these four excellent US-inspired deephouse cuts. We have the dark sexy groover ‘A new day begins’, the sunny rhodes-driven ‘Drive around the city’, the smoked-out ‘Haze’ and the hypnotizing late-night workout ‘Why do they wanna go’.
Parisian label Dockside Records comes with two smooth and warm house tracks by Detroit’s Norm Talley. Soulful tracks with rhodes chords and hypnotic rhythms.
Vinalog with a deep haunting technotrack on the Relative label. Spooky atmosphere combined with steady 909 percussion. The flip side has a stripped version.
New Dutch imprint Purple Maze presents it’s first release, a 4 track EP from The Please. The Dutch duo comprised of Hans Verhaag & Minggus Dorpmans favour lo-fi, often slo-mo sounds that cross pollinate house music with a whole other world of leftfield electronic sounds, and do just that on this new EP.
The third release on Boogie Originals is another genre-crossing musical excursion from Deep Space Orchestra and James Johnston, with a remix from Voyeur Rhythms Ben Sun.
Aim present a double vinyl compilation, closing the circle of the first year of Aim records. Featuring seven deep raw tracks from all previous artists and also some new, Christopher Rau, Oskar Offermann, Moomin or Oliver Deutschmann.
Debut release of these talented guys from Napels, Italy. They deliver three classic yet fresh deep house tracks, with warm & lush chords & basslines and superb analog drum programming, very deep, warm, funky.
Flip a coin and decide which side is which and where you are at? Where do you stand in life, what have you achieved? Is it all yours? Play russian roulette, ask fate, live and die. Restart and think. Work or rave. Live to the extremes. Do it with passion. Now or never. Heads or tails.
Agnès presents a full lenght album under his Cavalier moniker, on Drumpoet Community. “A Million Horses” is a 19 tracks journey through deep, dubbed-out minimal house and techno productions.
Omar-S and Colonel Abrams present some incredible vocal house music with melody and soul, huge, deep pairing of a legendary voice w/a modern production talent. On the flip is a Shadow Ray remix that picks up the pace morphing the original into a classic peak time house track.
New Firecracker 10″. Gavin Sutherland aka Fudge Fingas is the man behind the seventh installment in the cult series, with A-Side cut “What Works” showing a move towards moody, shuffling Detroit house. Remix duties are handed to Vakula and he turns in a memorable, highly atmospheric remix of “What Works”, before another Fudge original, the chiming sea of calm that is “Mass X”, rounds off an essential release.
New comer John Jastszebski delivers here one of his most Detroit influenced release. So it is naturally that mister ‘Big Daddy’ Rick Wade takes place to this project. Proper house music.
Newest signing to Boe Recordings is the UK’s very own Perseus Traxx. It’s 5 tracks of pure deep and jacking Chicago sounds with haunting pads, big baselines and the classic drum machine rhythms. It’s analogue food for your the body and soul and house music in its purest form.
Slowburn make their debut EP release on Elektrosouls. Four raw deep house cuts that ooze melody and soul.
Scion A/V presents a free ep from Omar S. He continues his streak of dark, mind-expanding, form-busting dance floor voodoo. Each song is a city within a city, as gritty and spirited as his beloved 313.
Andres delivering his third album for Mahogani Records, featuring 6 tracks, a tasteful mixture of house and gritty, yet soulful downbeat tracks.
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