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The London-based Korean producer packs four tracks with a bassline so strong it sucks the air out of the room and pulls on your heart like a suction cup.
Spincycle are UK producers Dave Clements and Andy Davies, who put out a small but perfectly formed catalog of pristinely programmed, highly danceable tech house in the early 2000s, records that are still entirely playable today. This three tracker is the debut release on their new label Coin-Op.
A belated follow up to 2007’s Vol 1, Lovebirds’ Modern Stalking Vol 2 is a four track EP, highlighted by the 103 BPM sultry disco chugger Reachin’.
“We Cookin’ Now” anchors a classic EP from deep house pioneer Abacus, appearing digitally on his bandcamp.
A ten track V/A from Pittsburgh label Detour featuring techno, acid, deep house, breakbeats and everything in between, from Shawn Rudiman, Paul Fleetwood, Doc Sleep, Naeem, Gusto and more.
Ghetto Capitalism is an eclectic and wonderful EP and there’s a vital message behind Jaymie Silk’s latest for K7 but You Can Do It is music that sounds like it’s having a heart attack and I love it.
High caloric electronic nutrition from Suburban Knight and Detroit Techno, one of Detroit’s best artist/label partnerships.
Seventeen remixes of five album tracks from Lay-Far’s True, Necessary, Kind album, covering various flavours of house, broken beat, bass, techno and drum & bass.
Occupying the blurry lines where house turns into something else, NOZU’s Free is driven by a smooth vocal straight outta brokenbeat London circa 2003 and the warm strum of a Nile Rodgers guitar.
Glo Phase takes an excursion into left-of-field downtempo and electronica with an oily vaporwave sheen on Manifesto.
Six tracks of Italian house from System of Survival that are nice and fresh and the DJ equivalent of an adjustable wrench – they’re really useful in a multitude of situations. In DJ terms, they’re tension builders, palette cleansers, and transition tracks, i.e.: they’re super-useful.
There has been a hole in the Chicago music scene for the last several years in just about the exact shape of Tevo Howard. It’s an absence, and it’s not one that can be easily filled.
Knocking one out from the Swiss cantons, DimSum drops a dreamy deep house EP with a romantic inspiration.
You could make a pretty nasty line-up for a dayparty out of all the people who have remixed Lovelee Dae over the years; these remixes from Franck Roger and Seth Troxler are a credible addition to the list.
In the grand tradition of beat tracks that beat it so hard they can only be called beatdown tracks, Jordan Gardner and Martyn Bootyspoon take a five word sample and loop it into oblivion on Doubletap from Bonobo’s Outlier label.
Three excellent versions of the same acid track remixed by LDLDN, Slow Assembly and Void Complet, and all of them work in their own way.
Four ground-shaking bombs made for basement clubs and rooms with a tight fit on Treat You Right from Dennis Quin and PIV.
Session Victim’s Screen Off is one of those tunes with a one-bar loop at its heart so strong that it just effortlessly carries the whole thing.
Harold Heath on Jeff Mills’ excellent four-track Millsart X-Ray Zulu EP, released in 2024 on Axis Records.
X-Press 2 are having a stellar year for remixes, which have without exception been top-notch no-prisoners serious dance floor gear. Their new remixes of Joseph Malik and Digital Liquid’s Only Fans on FCLR is just the same.