Mark Hand – Under the Winter [SLPVNL008]

Serbia’s Soul Print Recordings returns after a year away, with four pieces of beautiful and emotive deep house from the Englishman Mark Hand. The record kicks off with Midnight, a beautiful track with it’s floaty pads and gently rippling bass tones, coupled with the great soulful voice of Greg Blackman. False Leads is a percussive number, drenched in machine soul, with on the flip, Sio’s voice sits effortlessly above a downtempo beat, while Mark adds his late father’s saxophone to the mix on the final jazz enfused Mountains.

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Mark Hand – Under the Winter [SLPVNL008]

Leonid & Laak – Yesterday For Tomorrow [SLPVNL006]

The sixth vinyl missive from Soul Print Recordings is a double-header featuring two tracks apiece from Leonid and Laak. The former handles the A-side, laying down two deliciously intergalactic chunks of spacey deep house. On “Urania 1”, he wraps psychedelic acid lines, supernova chords and Motor City melodies around a snappy drum machine groove, before working the acid lines further on the deep and hypnotic “Urania 2”. Laak takes over on the flip, peppering a bouncy, off-kilter drum machine groove with cyclical melody loops and undulating acid lines on “Sp”. “Waiting For Tomorrow” is arguably even better, with the fast-rising producer wrapping a tactile, synth-bass heavy backing track with fluttering electronics and sunrise melodies.

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Leonid & Laak – Yesterday For Tomorrow [SLPVNL006]

VA – Big & Tall EP [SLPVNL004]

Deep versatile house EP released on Soul Print Recordings with tracks from Allstarr Motomusic, Tominori Hosoya, Owen Jay & Melchior Sultana, Diego Gamez and Petkovski.

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VA – Big & Tall EP [SLPVNL004]