“Always Twirling” spins into action with driving 16th note hats, compressed pads and soaring strings. 808 snare fills rattle throughout and a warm, dubby bassline provides the speaker-troubling low end. “Twirl And The Beanstalk” goes for a more heads down, bare beats and bass approach resulting in an intense, floor friendly track that grooves extra hard. Finally, we have “Whispering Twirl”, a sumptuous slice of mid-tempo deepness with a hint of boogie and a dash of soul.
Two tracks of attention grabbing House from Portable aka Bodycode! ‘This Life Of Illusion’ is an exceptional piece of deepest House soul laden with warmest synth washes, pointed keys and a heavyweight yet tactile bass throb made for the best sound system you can lay your hands. ‘Life Magically Is’ is built with different intentions, laying positive self-help vocals over a prime jackers rhythm with a deep, sprawling, and deadly square bass line.
New signing by Chez Damier with traditional soulfull Balance and Prescription kind of house tracks. Warm, grooving and with jazzy keys, make vocals and a warm blanket of strings and synths.
John Daly is back with an emotive EP featuring 4 variations of deepness. His strength is definitely his versatility, as he proofs on this EP, which features great deep house tunes, such as Big Piano and Reach as well as dubtechno like Long Distance and the mindblowing Atlantic Drive, which is a masterpiece downtempo track.
Marco Bernardi has a new 12″ soon to be release on Clone Royal Oak. The EP includes two deep melodic house tracks with rootz in detroit house. The track from the flip side is a collaboration with Keith Tucker from Aux 88.
Classic Detroit house tracks from Delano Smith with some help of Norm Talley on Kolour Off Shoot Undertones. Deeper tracks with lush keys and pumping basslines.
Hyperactive hotshot house hunk Axel Boman steps up and delivers a stunning debut EP for Pampa. Since many years an important force on the small but friendly Swedish club scene, and one third of the Studio Barnhus crew together with Kornél Kovács and Petter, Axel is as experienced a producer as his ideas are fresh. He is creating “worlds” rather than “tracks”, and on his “Holy Love” EP we are transported to three very different places indeed.
Two new artist deliver the next Underground Quality release. Basic stripped down tracks that slowly build and build with intens strings on the a-side a deeper detroit-esque tracks and then a more traditional house cut on the flip.
Reggie Dokes is definitely keeping busy – “House Is My Soul” is the latest in a series of releases for 2010. Deep, melodic Detroit house done in Reggie’s signature, string heavy style which already has many fans.
In the 3rd Downbeat release, the main star is the Waldorf Sound. This release means the debut of one of the heads of the label, Jose Rico. His two tracks (“Restructure again” and “About it”) are obsessive, direct and forceful and define clearly his tastes and influences. Detroit and above all, Detroit. On side B, (the essential) Mike Huckaby gives us a bright pearl with a piano solo reminding us of his works on Deep Transportation.
Stereociti is back on Mojuba with two fresh tunes which sound like they were made to sweeten your summer time! The title track Cosmoride catches the vibe of Stereociti first release but takes is on a deep cosmic trip to make you and the universe dance.
Sensual, tripped out vocals from Nesreen Shah and a monstrous remix from New Yorkers Still Going, the B Side is Coyote’s remix of International Peoples Gang’s ‘Second’,…a clear nu-balearic classic!
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