Some of the best things come and go before you have the chance to find out about them. Such is the case with the early releases from Paranoid London. The mysterious duo came out of nowhere with little fanfare, dropping their 12 release with no promotion, only to have them become must have items as…
Acid house duo Paranoid London return with two electro-fied hardware driven cuts! Known for teaming up with vocalists Paris Brightledge and Mutado Pintado for their 303 led excursions, the Londoners take a different approach this time around. We Come To Rock is jamming remake of the Imperial Brothers classic of the same name. Distorted driving…
Some of Parris Mitchell s rawest material back in print! The Chicago base producer had already had a few releases out before Dance Mania s Ray Barney came to him with the idea for ghetto house. After planting the seed, Mitchel came back with tracks like Whose Pussy Is This and Masturbation, and the genre…
Following a successful Ninja Tune release, Once, Peggy Gou looks back and drops one of her earlier creations on Phonica. The DJ producer has become one of the most visible names in the dance music scene over the last 2-3 years, and this deep house groover, effortless and gently swinging, is another strong addition to…
Peter Matson, who plays guitar for NYC breakout band Underground System, explores deeper dance music styles on Short Trips. Roma Norte leads off the late-night vibe, with subtle chords stabs and stripped-down rhythm programming leaving plenty of space for the hypnotic bassline to move the track along. Jimpster (Freerange Records) freaks the original w Afro-house…
Chicago vocalist, producer, & composer Peven Everett released Put Your Back Into It about 10 years ago. Since then, the deep house burner has received a lot of love on the dancefloor w names like Theo Parrish, Ben UFO, and Motor City Drum Ensemble getting behind it. Groovin Recordings has brought back the modern house…
After thoroughly slaying the edit and compilation game, Psychemagik finally return with some original material! The UK duo can do it all – from DJing with the deepest of crates, remixing with class and style, editing with the best of em, and of course killing it with fresh original productions like the one on this…
Deep House cuts reissued. Rainer Trueby teamed up with Motor City Drum Ensemble for a pair of smashing tunes that went seemed to hit everyone s charts back in 2009. Ayers Rock samples a classic Roy Ayers We Live In Brooklyn Baby and keeps the groove steady. The flip To Know You picks things up…
Originally released in 1990 on London label Champion (Paul Oakenfold was an early A&R), Robin S s Show Me Love really took off after Swedish producer StoneBridge put his touch on it in 1992. The initial Montego Mix is fine (not included on here), but when SB added the Korg M-1 organ and reshuffled the…
More twisted house goodness from San Francisco s Roche. Deep and mellow is the driving sound behind the Sity To Sky EP. Coming to you on the newly minted Los Angeles based Hobo Camp, there is a heavy West Coast vibe throughout the release. Roche delivers lush pads and solid analog bass with tribal inflected…
Deep Detroit vibes repressed! Rotating Assembly is a collective of musicians and producers brought together by Motor City visionary Theo Parrish. The expansive group includes fellow Detroit musicians including Marcellus Pittman, Jerrald James, Maat Low, Warren Harris, and Melissa Botts who come together and build the lush and exquisite vibes of Illumination. Sound sample speaks for…
Debut solo album from Lab alum Sabo! As a veteran producer (and DJ), Sabo heads up his Sol Selects label and has been releasing music for a long time. After 11 years in New York, he relocated to LA in 2011 to “chase a dream of playing deep, mid-tempo tribal music to fresh young years,” and…
Second studio album from Japan s Satoshi Tomiie. New Day comes more than fifteen years after Tomiie s first full length album, Full Lick. Though he may be best known for the 1989 house hit Tears, which was produced alongside Frankie Knuckles, and his longstanding affiliation with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto of Yellow Magic Orchestra fame,…
Deep disco edits coming out of Brooklyn! We re not too sure who s behind this Snoopy emblazoned 12 but whoever it is knows just how to work it. Four edits of disco fire pumped and primed for pure peak party time madness. Whenever something like this comes through we re always tempted to try…
You bettah werk! German DJ producer Shan delivering some serious dancefloor bombs with his latest for Running Back. You can tell this kid did his homework on breakbeat house with Work It. It s like he took the best of old school rave styles and fused it with modern dancefloor tactics to create guaranteed peak time killers. All the…
I went to Body & Soul 21st anniversary at Governor s Island last year (2017), and the weather wasn t great, OVERCAST with sprinkles of rain from the ferry ride to the sorta-long walk get to the events grounds. The vibe was fine though—good warm-up selections, some dancing here and there, picnickers gathering around the…