After their collaboration with Traxx on a previous MOS-release, James T. Cotton and D’Marc Cantu team up as 2AM/FM for more serious Chicago House roughness. ‘Desolate Cities’ has all ingredients we love to hear in proper dark house track, this very reminds us to the best works by Phuture. ‘Give This World’ goes more on the melodic tip, and reminds to classic tracks by Virgo, Ron Trent and G-Strings.
We can only guess of who’s behind the second installment of the Midnight Hours 12″ – we only retrospectively found out that Rick Wade, Nick Holder & Scott Ferguson we’re all involved in the first one. The aural clues are quite promising… Upbeat and occasionally jazzy house with a strong whiff of Detroit about it.
New Yore release brings an EP from Tony Ollivierra aka Ibex with four tracks, so deep (and yet grooving without a doubt), unique and full of class. The music on this EP is so rich and full of musical idea’s.
Lucy, Stroboscopic Artefacts labelowner, and DVS1 debut on Prologue delivering finest pure deep techno floor fillers.
Another unlikely yet highly successful remix excursion for Delphic, picking up an uber-limited one-sided rerub from Detroit’s Kyle Hall. There’s practically no trace of the original to be heard, just a damn fine exhibition of Motor City techniques, shaking slightly broken drums under filtered and flanged keys, locking into a sweetly sensual loop of house magic.
John Daly is delivering one killer Chicago influenced house tracks after another. Obviously getting inspiration from his favorite Larry Heard and Marshall Jefferson songs, turning that into those long smooth John Daly tracks with soulful basslines, lush melodies, intense strings and euphoric breakdowns that take things to another level. Not tracks for every moment on every dancefloor, but tools for the real house connaisseurs who understand special records for special moments and who treasure them like the crown jewels!
Detroit artist Jason Fine, the master of the introspective and personal techno sound gives us another killer release, once again transforming daily life experience into beautiful and moving deep techno and house. Jason Fine continues to play around with layered melodies and harmony mixed with raw and funky drum programming. The EP opens with the track Orange, a beautiful monotone organ based techno track, revealing hard times. Violet continues in the same vein. Blue melodies play around over minor organ chords and heavy kick drum. On the inner tracks Blue and Red Jason with confidence moves into the electro territory, still keeping emotion and atmosphere up front. Even though the concept behind this EP is the full color spectrum, the mood is all over blue.
The second release on aDepth Audio is produced by the legendary Microworld, of Transmat and Styrax fame, and also includes a remix by Arthur Oskan.
Eclipsemusic is proud to announce the first release of sister label Black Sunshine Recordings. This first chapter comes with a solid release from Mistanomista a deep house project from capable multi-instruments jazz player Yuri Shulgin. Detroit Session is a tribute to 313 House scene strongly influenced by Moodyman’s music, live funky bassline and jazzy chords mixed together with smooth broken house drum patterns, raw deepness and timeless music for Sunday morning party. On the other side Take 1 catch the attention of deep house heads a stunning bassline track with synth dubby texture effected with many echo-delay shots, keeping the vibe on the underground side of house music.
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