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Oliver Dollar’s Strings 4 Life gets a really good remix here from Michigander label boss Brian Kage, who gives the beats some extra slap, chops the main string riff around a little and gives the whole production a little French-touch pump.
Wallace is rushing to get somewhere, we don’t know where and neither does he but he’s in a hurry.
With vocals that work beautifully with the chords, a stripped-back post-UKG rhythm track and a tight, dance floor-focused arrangement, Rave Breaks from Genius Of Time has anthem potential on the right dance floors.
Two nicely put-together deep house tracks here, taken from Felipe Gordon’s four-track My Legs Are Numb EP on Bristol’s Shall Not Fade label.
Dancefloor-ready acid tracks from Pittsburgh Track Authority and one of the best underground labels in America.
More good stuff from the newly returned Nu Groove, this time from Italian long-time house player Tuccillo and his four-track Frames EP.
Breakbeats, esoteric synth riffs, hazy FX and so much else to love from these utterly mad bastards.
Jazz-ish house done right: Session Victim remix Sweatson Plank’s The Road to Love for Friends of Friends.
The finest deep house oriented basement tracks from Berlin-based producer Jansen on Cabriolet Recordings.
Three ravey techno tracks that bite your head off from Monaco, the mononymous artist from Ireland.
Harold Heath on Jazz Nagas, eight tracks of high-end underground Detroit deep house from Niko Marks.
Four tracks of tracky, loopy, quietly potent deep house tracks from Chicago-raised Daniel Chavez on Deep Club.
The shop’s label Flexi Cuts has put together a five-track compilation from Flexi-affiliated producers and artists including Lex and Locke, DJ Rocca, Club Soda, Hiroyuki Kato and The Mechanical Man.
Rissa Garica was born to do this. The New York City DJ, producer, label owner and all-around househead from Day 2 has lit up dancefloors, as a DJ and now as a producer with releases on labels including Plastik People, Fresh Meat, Pogo House and her own NightChild.
Radiants contains multitudes – four individual tracks that feel like small electronic symphonies full of movement.
Harold Heath has questions, perhaps Jamie xx and Honey Dijon have the answers.
Three tracks of smoky, intoxicating, moody but uplifting deep house, deftly programmed, professionally arranged, pristinely mixed, mastered and then pressed onto wax from Alton Miller on Mister Bear.
Originally released on limited edition vinyl, the split EP features four tracks of mutant techno for acid psychonauts.
Potent and classy deep dance floor tracks from Felipe Gordon on Phonogramme.
The final installment of Snuff Trax’s Acid Trips V/A series featuring tracks from Larionov, St. Theodore, Halbert, Bocabeats and Boneless One and limited to 100 copies on black wax.