Rush Hour digs out from the vault a very juicy 12″, with an Actress remix for Tom Trago and an unreleased Convextion re-slap of Terrence Dixon.
VA – Lost In The Streets Of NYC [VAULT002]
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William Kouam Djoko – We Are Your Brothers & Sisters [RHVD007 ]
William Kouam Djoko’s debut on Hursh Hour Voyage Direct. With this new release by the The Hague native, the label continues to release Dutch only artists. William delivers some late night house goodies here. The title track is a pulsating and hypnotic track that leads with a repetitive ‘We Are Your Brothers & Sisters’ vocal before diving into an epic organ and drum break. ‘Enforce YS’ is a deeper, warmer synth track that really gets under your skin after a few listens.
Mutant Beat Dance – Let Me Go [HHYR019]
Fully Koded Chicagoians Traxx and Beau Wanzer team up for another Mutant Beat Dance release. Together they have produced arguably ‘the best 80s Chicago house record NOT made in the 80s. The Mutants call it Jakbeat, inspired by the early days of house music. ‘Let Me Go’ is as intense and rhythmically inclined as they come. Naughty Wood’s sparse vocals cry desperation, almost nearing insanity, which makes up for a pressure cooker like warehouse anthem. ‘Rottonfunk’ is another intense work out which has a killer groove and makes us wander off to the Promised Land (wherever that is).
Boo Williams – Moving Rivers [RH040]
Boo Williams is back on Rush Hour. This release features two heartfelt tracks that reach out and touch the soul. Always a producer that took his tracks a step further with his musicality, Boo knows how to keep his tracks exciting and in doing so he fades the border between house and techno music.
Hunee – Tide [RH119-12]
Recloose – Magic [RH038]
Recloose is back on Rush Hour with a new 12″, featuring 3 soulfull house tracks and with a corking Carl Craig re-edit.
Gene Hunt – May The Funk Be With You [RH039]
The ‘May The Funk Be With You’ white label gets a full release. Gene Hunt takes a classic warehouse theme and turns it into an almost anthemic, synth laden Chicago jack release. Theo Parrish turns it into a hypnotic eight minute long gospel-techno-jazz work out that just sticks.
The Burrel Brothers – The Burrel Brothers Present: The NU Groove Years [RH117CD]
The Burrel Brothers output, from Chicago-esque rhythm tracks, to the deepest, soulful NY house.
James Mason – Nightgruv / I Want Your Love [RHRSS003]
Alfabet – E/F [RH-ALFA3]
On the third Alfabet release Tom Trago and Awanto3 step it up a dozen of notches or so. ‘Hell Of Samba’ surely sounds as the theme tune of armageddon. ‘Too Shy’ on the other hand sounds like we have died and woke up in heaven. A soothing, spaced-out, yet bass heavy jam that gives an strangely eerie feeling that angels are among us.
Xosar – Ghosthaus [RHX-1]
Xosar release featuring a blend of deep Detroit-style techno and leftfield ghost house; two originals and two remixes by Legowelt.
Kirk Degiorgio – Divine Logic [RH037]
Kirk Degiorgio returns on Rush Hour with a new single, entitled ‘Divine Logic’. With ‘Divine Logic’ he keeps true to his own tradition by delivering a timeless piece of techno music. A string-laden track that evolves around an arpeggiated synth line. A classy joint that shows that the heritage of Detroit techno still lives on.
Virgo Four – Lites Go Out / Boing (Remixes) [BHVIRGO002LTD]
Alternative mixes taking Virgo Four into darker / more experimental territory. Capracara and his studio pal, Scott Fraser, turn in a 100% replayed version of the much sort after ‘Lites Go Out ’. On the flip, Jamal Moss steps into his Hieroglyphic Being guise and kicks out a brilliant reworking of ‘Boing’.
Virgo Four live @ Rush Hour Label Night, Cable (London) 22.08.2011
VA – Rush Hour presents Amsterdam All Stars (Album Sampler) [RH116-12]
The sampler of the upcoming Amsterdam All Stars compilation, a release that catches the current spirit of house music from Amsterdam. This 12″ features an exclusive track from Young Marco (it will not be on the LP format) and a track from Juju & Jordash.
Duster Valentine / Aardvarck – Tracks From The Vault Vol.1 [VAULT001]
Vault Series is a cheeky little series where Rush Hour drops never before released tracks and mixes from its vaults as well as tracks which are in dire need of a re-release. The series kicks off with an unreleased track by the mysterious Duster Valentine. An anthemic disco track that, with its catchy piano loop, pays homage to the golden days of New York house music. On the other side we find Aardvarck’s fun-loving-freestyle-disco-mash-up-party-jam, That Pig, remastered and extended.
KiNK & Neville Watson – A Saturday In November [HHYR017]
KiNK & Neville Watson return with ‘A Saturday In September’, their first vocal track, featuring vocals if Kim Ann Foxman (of Hercules And Love Affair). Future-retro Chicago house, with late 80’s New York influences.
Lando Kal – Maneuver [RH-DC011]
Rush Hour Direct Current series continue with Lando Kal. Freaked out juggernauts of electronic music, primarily experimenting with various mutations of house. Dense instrumentation, analog synth and drum machine work, complex melodies, and creeping basslines are pooled from his musical obsessions with 90’s RnB, classic house, freestyle, garage, Detroit Techno, early synthesizer music.
Maxi Mill – To The Next / Sun Rays [RH-VD005]
Next up on Tom Trago’s Voyage Direct series is Maxi Mill, a young producer from Amsterdam. ‘To The Next’ / ‘Sun Rays’ is his debut release and showcases his love for raw, dirty and syncopated house music.
Nebraska – Displacement [RH-N1LP]
Nebraska drops a new album on Rush Hour. The album features 8 excellent house tracks completely unreleased before, combining fun loving, party starting disco jams with cinematic, luscious work outs.
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