Lil Tony – Underground Sound Of Helsinki EP [RB019]

Finland’s hardest working DJ Lil Tony is no stranger to people who spent the last 15 years with house music. Part of Nu-Spirit Helsinki, the powerful Future Beat Investigators and the driving force of the city’s pulsating club scene, this man did it right from start to finish (no pun intended). Recently, Tony started to flex his muscles as a solo artist as well with recordings for Innervisions, Versatile or Mood Music and most of all the inspired jacking re-work of Arthur Russell’s Treehouse that the RB office is still jealous of. Blindfolded we would have declared on oath to listen to a missing Ron Hardy rework. But to move on to pastures new, The Underground Sound of Helsinki EP is also a kind of a lost gem with its roots house approach. Three big tracks from Lil Tony: Mona evokes gentle feelings of rough classics from the vaults of Steve Poindexter, Armando and Mike Dunn or all the other cats living in oblivion – ruff, rugged and raw. Saturday Morning is a perfect mood builder and does what straight house music does best, while Employee Only spreads as much optimism and hope as it multiplies those feelings of melancholy just house can evoke to make sad people happy. Subterranean vault music with a fine ear for the action.

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Lil Tony – Underground Sound Of Helsinki EP [RB019]

Reggie Dokes – The Golden Years EP [DEEPEX018]

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The Golden years EP represents the special tribute that Deep Explorer make to Psychostasia Records, one of the most influential labels of the underground house of this age. The EP opens the fire with Reggie Dokes that plays with the tribal electronics in his completely new song called “Mother Africa” and its exactly what the title suggest, a tribal journey through the machines into the continent. In the same side the EP continues rescuing a lost track from Eric Johnson planned for a new Psychostasia but because the big pause of the label in 2006 the precious rhodes and tribal percussion of “In 2 deep” never saw the light. In the B side we afront the personal tribute that Dubbyman makes to the Psychostasia label creating two remixes but in a different way never seen before; taking samplers from many songs included in the Psychostasia catalogue to create new collage versions from one of the first songs edited in Psychostasia in 2001: the classic “Black thoughts” and “Mother africa” the ultimate song from Reggie Dokes. The first one called “deep in the hole mix” rides the 4×4 rhythm into a neverending deep climax. The “tribute mix” pitch down the tempo in a kaleidoscope of different sounds like a musical collage. Of course that the remixes are a wink to the Psychofans but also is a perfect time to discover the sound …through Deep Explorer….

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Reggie Dokes – The Golden Years EP [DEEPEX018]

Wbeeza – City Shuffle EP [3EEP-108]

First 350 Copies Comes As Transparent Blue Vinyl In A Black Padded Inner Sleeve!!! This Is The 3rd Wbeeza Ep On Third Ear Recordings, Following The Heavy Stuff Ep (3eep-096) And The New Skank Ep (3eep-100), And Shows The Young Londoner Beginning To Stretch Out And Further Show His Writing And Production Skills. Listen
Wbeeza – City Shuffle EP [3EEP-108]

Marcello Napoletano – The Space Voodoo [MATH033]

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After his “A Prescription of Love EP” which was heavily charted by more than 50 high profile DJs & artists such as Prosumer to Panorama Bar DJs in Berlin to the writers at Fact UK etc, Marcello Napoletano returns with his debut album “The Space Voodoo”. Napoletano pulls influences from a wide range of sources – from the electronic sounds of Brian Eno, the experimental values of Miles Davis, classic Chicago house by Larry Heard, jazz by Monk, Todd Edwards garage to the deep St. Germain. The label head of Mathematics Jamal Moss will assure you that this album will put a spell on you!

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Marcello Napoletano – The Space Voodoo [MATH033]

Anton Zap – Take It As It Comes EP [UQ024]

New 4 tracker by Anton Zap (Uzuri, Deep Explorer, Quintessentials ) on Jus-Ed’s Underground Quality label! “I feel this is Anton’s deepest production since UQ-018. Each track provides the right elements for different times on the dance floor” DJ Jus-Ed.

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Anton Zap – Take It As It Comes EP [UQ024]

Marcello Napoletano – In Dreamin EP [R010]

Reincarnation is proud to present on its 10th release the wonderfull work of a young upcoming and uncompromising italian talent: Marcello Napoletano. Fresh from releases on the Mathematics and Unified labels outta Chicago, Marcello delivers 4 slices of deep raw hipnotic house! Expect more of his deadly material on Reincarnation in the next months….

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Marcello Napoletano – In Dreamin EP [R010]