In amongst a room full of records there’s an area dedicated to 7s that I’ve collected over the years which have been handcrafted into the mix available below. The inspiration for the selections stem from lazy Sunday afternoons listening to my dad play his weekend purchases. He was a regular at most of the North [...]
The second release on Body Work features two fine, new, upstanding members of the electronic community, Messrs Waze & Odyssey, and their brand new extended play release, the ‘C’Mon EP’. Waze & Odyssey have crafted three tracks that will mist the eyes of house music veterans and send the young’uns scampering to the dancefloor with [...]
Saporro [ Japan ] born, New York-based producer Shigeru Tanabu releases the ‘El Contraste EP’ this March on Apt. International. Tanabu, since working with Brendon Moeller as a guitarist on the Beat Pharmacy project, has gone on to release a string of originals and remixes for Wave Music as well as his own UnderTone Recordings. [...]
Escort’s 2006 single, “Starlight” receives the remix treatment from Max Essa. The single was a critical success and a personal favourite. There’s no release date at the moment though according to Max it should be out real soon. Escort are based out of Brooklyn, New York and tout themselves as a contemporary disco band. Founded [...]
What with edits being the new black and every man and his Mac who is willing and able(ton) slapping an eight extra bars to the beginning of a track and calling it an their own, it takes a little something extra to stand out in the crowd. Duff Disco has proved himself to be a [...]
DJ Harvey, AKA Harvey Bassett, is one of the world’s most famous cult DJs and producers of deep esoteric dance floor music. Famed the world over for his eclectic sets and masterful use of rare musical gems, DJ Harvey has the ability to speak to the dance floor through the records he plays. Hailing from [...]
Nobiilo is a brand new new project from Bass United label boss Dory Kahalé and Minneapolis singer Sophia Shorai. The pair deliver a superb cover of the 1978 underground French disco classic “Your Love” Dory Kahalé has been a key part of the US electronic music scene for the last two decades recording under a [...]
Over the last couple of years there has been a lot of exciting stuff happening in the Russian house scene. Established names, but also, a string of new talent have been making waves upon waves with with some nice deep house. A prime example are the productions of producer Kirill Tipo. A Saint Petersburg native [...]
Daryl Hall and John Oates first recorded “I Can’t Go For That [ No Can Do ] in 1981 giving them their fourth number-one hit single. In January 1982 after a ten week run at the top of the Hot 100, Olivia Newton-John’s song, “Physical” overtook them. Since then the song has been covered, sampled, [...]
The latest mix from the Business Casual Disco collective has provided this Valentine evening’s soundtrack. A refreshing romantic change from the gush that lands in my inbox around this time of year. The collective is made up by Coltrane, Norrin and Skeeba from New Haven who aim to find the future and discover the past [...]
‘Falling Star’ is the first release from Kris Menace’s forthcoming Album ‘Electric Horizon’. The fêted producer’s debut single for 2012 sees the nu house supremo back in regal form. ‘Falling Star’, crash lands this spring on Menace’s own label Compuphonic and is a precursor for one of the most hotly tipped future house albums this [...]
Phil Weeks releases his third album ‘Raw Instrumental’ in March 2012 and continues his recent dedication to sampling and creating music with classic Akai MPC3000 sampler. Following on from his critically acclaimed ‘Love Affair’ album from early 2011, the Parisian house producer once again focuses on digging in the crates to find samples which are [...]
Will Tramp! has put together some of the songs that feature in his genre bending sets. Included in the mix package are two tracks which are forthcoming on TRAMP! Music from from Auto Jack Ensemble & Dorsia. “Not Everyone Understands” by Audio Jack Ensemble is an anthemic piano house number with bubbling 303 acid lines [...]
In 2007, a limited one-sided 12” of ‘XXXO’ by Equip was pressed. Previously unreleased, this 1983 recording was an uncanny harbinger of the Acid House era, which was still a number of years in the future. This was the accompanying press release: In 1984 Street Sounds released the experimental ‘UK Electro’ album as part of [...]