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   | | Bristol-based Kemback (AKA jazz-loving house producer Geoff Wright) impressed earlier this year with a tasty contribution to Don't Be Afraid's DBA Dubs series. A year earlier, he'd released his debut EP on Omena, the fabulous Good Night. Here, that set appears on digital download for the first time. The title track sees Wright brilliantly wrapping sampled jazz instrumentation (double bass, grand piano, hissing cymbals) and dawdling, Floating Points style synthesizer solos around a hypnotic, Innervisions style groove, while "For You Today" is a liltng deep house shuffler full of Sweeping strings, dusty samples and rich Rhodes chords. There are also two fine remixes of "Good Night": a woozy deep house revision by Local Talk co-founder Tooli and a sumptuous, electronic-Afro-jazz-in-deep-space take from the reliable Auntie Flo. | |
 | | Holic Trax has established itself as a respected, no nonsense outlet for quality house and
techno and that carries on here with a new EP from Keita Sano. Keita Sano, based in Okayama, Japan, has previously released on labels such as NYC's Mister Saturday Night and Hugo Capablanca's Discos Capablanca. Up first, 'Flowers From Your Grave' is a gritty number with tough drums, Detroit inspired pads and plenty of physicality in the groove. Crisp and dynamic, it's a robust house cut, for sure. 'Let's Stay Together' is a more party sounding offering with atmospheric ambience in the back ground as streaming Rhodes chords and organic percussion set a Moodymann style vibe front and centre. Then comes 'Night Walking', which flips the script again, this time sinking down into a warm, propulsive deep house vibe with bold but soft edged chords, driving drums and engaging hand claps. This is a fine EP that is sure to make a big impact on the dance floor. | |
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 | | If you call yourselves Super Fun Bumper Edition, then the music on your first E.P better live up to the name. Happily, Aussie twosome Jad Lee and Charles Murdoch have filled the Trends EP with the kind of music hat will put a smile on your face. Using the title as an excuse to doff a cap to various hyped styles, they variously thrown down loopy and dreamy, wide-eyed deep house ("Merge"), warehouse-friendly, bass-heavy tech-house dirtiness (the heads-down late night chug of"Rubber"), and choppy, cut-up future garage ("Emperor"). Arguably best of all, though, is "Skalpee", a fluid fusion of skittish broken beats, tumbling melodies and near Balearic musical flourishes. | |
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