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	This week's deep house selections Friday 19 January 2018

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Marcus Worgull

Broad Horizons EP
Innervisions Germany

More than a few eyebrows were raised at Junodownload HQ when we first heard this fine EP from Marcus Worgull, which marks his return to Innervisions after a three-year absence. While the title track is in some ways typical of the label's output in recent years - think Balearic guitars and passionate Americana vocals over a slick and hypnotic tech-house beat - the other two tracks are a notable departure. Both explore the sub-heavy swing of authentic dub-house, with alluring, speaker rattling, delay-laden, percussion rich shuffle of opener "Skango" particularly impressive. "Seen", where dub bass and rolling deep house beats are encased in bubbly electronics and smile-inducing synth riffs, is also impressive.

Your Planet Is Next

Laid Back EP
Studio Barnhus Sweden

Ethyene

Playin' With Fire
Better Listen

Ethyene is a producer, DJ and label manager from Lyon in France, delivering house music that finds its roots in the sounds of Detroit, Chicago and Manchester. He has had releases on top labels such as Moonrise Hill Material, Kolour LTD and Editorial to name but a few. He has patented a certain style of mid-tempo house music; applying a french touch aesthetic to disco, r&b and hip-hop sample references. He teams up with Moonrise main man Folamour on the neon-lit boogie down jam "Why My Love", some lo-slung soulful hip-hop on the lush "Why My Love", super sexy deep house for the late night (with an R'n'B edge) on "Loneliness Of The Shadow Dancer" and a sultry nu-jazz beauty to close out the fine EP affectionately titled "I Sold Yayo To Buy Kicks". Washington DC based Better Listen had a great run of releases back in 2017 with Thatmanmonkz, Chevals and Closed Paradise all appearing, and being particular standouts.

Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts

Shouts, Moans & Significance
Musique Risquee Canada

Guillaume Coutu Dumont returns! The Quebecois minimal maestro serves up his first release in three years since his Revolution In The Cycles EP for London's Freerange Records. Entitled Shouts Moans & Significance, it comes courtesy of revered local imprint Musique Risque - which is equally as retrained on the release front, with this one following up a killer 2016 release by German producer Jichael Mackson. Opening with the deeply hypnotic affair "Histoires Vraies" with its mesmerizing bell melodies reminiscent of recent work by Thomas Melchior or DeWalta - coincidentally Coutu Dumont has previously released on the latter's Meander imprint. His rich background in electro-acoustic and avant garde music is evident up next on the oddball groove of "Far Is The Field" while "Whatever's Inside" is trippy and low-slung minimal house for the afterhours - something you'd imagine label boss Vincent Lemieux playing up at Panorama Bar on a Saturday morning.

Various

BPRDIGI03
Banoffee Pies

Bristol imprint Banoffee Pies stands out like a true jewel within its fair city's musical scene, challenging the status quo of heavy bass driven music with its carefully curated selections of music from the deeper and more minimalist spectrum. Now making their smooth grooves available on digital format, the label provides a retrospective of some of their highlights over the last few years. The tough and rolling jack of Ruf Dug's "Cosmic Feelings" featured on their very first release, Swede in Sydney Adam Stromstedt (co-head of Lyssna) is a staple of Banoffee Pies now and served up the sublime hypnotica of "Gedank" last year on BP06, as did Rotterdam's Philou Louzolo (on BP04) with the lush and ethereal deepness of "Alter Ego". Jaffa Surfa's "Souled Out" from 2016 is another worthy addition - this funky and rolling tech house stomper by the Hungarian scene veteran is truly lit!

Llorca

The Garden Remix EP
Sampling As An Art

French soul legend Ludovic Llorca made a welcome comeback to the industry with his long awaited full length 'The Garden' early in 2017 - his first new material in 16 years! It was certainly worth the wait and proved that sometimes it really is quality, not quantity. The man behind such timeless classics as "Indigo Blues" and "Precious Thing" now presents two selections from the LP, that have been remixed with a distinctively French Touch - when only the best will do! These remixes come courtesy of Parisian imprint Sampling As An Art, run by none other than S3A: who serves up a typically dusty and deep rendition of "All Right" that's suited to sexy late night mood lighting. There is also a handy Radio Edit featured for your convenience. Also worthy of mention is Rim Laurens rendition of "Waiting", where the Nardonne native delivers an emotive trip-hop rendition reminiscent of Bristolian colelcitve Wild Bunch and their output in the 90s.

Dj Kush Boogie

Chardonnay
Lobster Theremin

Having spent 2017 delivering releases under a variety of aliases for a number of hyped labels, Hugo Jay once again dons the DJ Kush Boogie pseudonym for his first outing on Lobster Theremin since 2016. Melodious and atmospheric throughout, Chardonnay sees the producer deliver a quartet of spacey and becalmed deep house cuts rich in vintage drum machines and Motor City techno inspired electronics. Highlights-wise, we'd point you towards the gentle positivity of "Chardonnay", with its' vintage Floating Points style synthesizer flourishes, though many DJs will undoubtedly be drawn towards the chunky low-end hustle, tough beats and repetitive string samples of "Club Tool 6". We can see the intergalactic bliss and rolling deep house warmth of "The Spot" getting plenty of club plays, too.

Leigh Morgan

Wafting Capacity
Fancy Human

Sometime Urbantorque founder Leigh Morgan has enjoyed something of a career rebirth since establishing the Fancy Human label in 2015. Wafting Capacity is his seventh release for the imprint in just over two years, and includes three more quietly impressive chunks of melodious, heavily electronic deep house. Check, in particular, the title track's undulating electronics, rubbery beats and lilting synthesizer motifs, which combine to create a jolly, analogue-rich mood. Elsewhere, Morgan explores his love of vintage synthesizers and drum computers on the jaunty synth-pop/deep house hybrid "Vexacious Foot", before wrapping more deliciously melodious motifs and jazzy synth flourishes around a rolling groove on blissful closer "Delicate Doors".

Oceanvs Orientalis / Goldcap / Dance Spirit / Lum / Baris K

Ararat Vol 2
Ararat Masis

Zurich based label Ararat Masis are back after a great inaugural release from Nico Sun last year. For their second release, they have invited five great artists. They bring a new form of warm and cosy melodies from the region of the holy mountain of Ararat to the world. These five dynamic artists are creating a complete new way to experience oriental originated sounds, with their understanding of blending these tunes with energetic electronic elements. Oceanvs Orientalis is a collective formation founded by Safak Oz Kutle, which aims to challenge the aesthetic perception in electronic music. On "Lycian Waltz" we hear the Turkish producer delve deep into the exotic on this hazy and low slung affair. Dance Spirit & LUM deliver some deep and atmospheric tech house on the slinky "Calumet" where the American-Argentine duo really deliver the goods. Finally, Istanbul's Baris K never fails to impress - as anyone who has witnessed one of his mazing DJ sets will attest. His contribution takes you deep into the Middle Eastern after hours scene, on this smoky/dusty exploration in deepness.

Bellaire

Paris City Jazz
AOC

If you're a fan of St Germain's peerless debut album Boulevard - quite simply the greatest collection of deep and jazzy house tracks of all time - then we'd advise you to check out this EP from 19 year-old French producer Bellaire. While the jaunty title track is closer in tone to both "Rose Rouge" and Mr Scruff's "Get a Move On", it still includes some impeccable piano and vibraphone solos amongst the bouncy beats and looped jazz horn samples. The pianos return to the fore on turn of the '90s New Jersey garage tribute "Jazzy Things", while the loopier "Street Blues" fuses the Boulevard-ethos with the breezy bumpiness of classic Frankie Knuckles productions. "Get Down", a thumping chunk of jazz-fired disco-house, is also top-notch.

Rochenoire / Armless Kid

Copie Blanche Vol 3: La Beaute
Copie Blanche

One of the trends of 2017 was the seemingly unstoppable rise of dusty, jazzy and melodious French deep house. If this EP from Gallic imprint Copie Blanche is anything to go buy, it looks like the trend is set to continue in 2018. Young French producer Rochenoire handles the A-side, first peppering a crispy deep house groove with held-note strings and poignant pianos on "La Beaute", before opting for a thicker set bassline and fluid Rhodes keys on languid deep house roller "Wanna Tell U" (which, incidentally, also boasts a short vocal sample from a blazed Motown-era classic). Armless Kid handles the B-side, offering a dreamier and jazzier take on chunky deep house on "Joel, T'es Mon Jackpot" and the more percussive "Peter Tosh".

Fede Lng / Deejay Astral

Pack The Pipe
Who's Susan

Dutch conceptual label Who's Susan are back after a slew of awesome releases by scene favourite DJ Windows XP. This time they have recruited the services of London's Federico Lange (Axe On Wax Records) and Deejay Astral (Steel City Discs/Shall Not Fade - now based in Berlin) for some nifty lo-fi house shenanigans. Lange is up first with the moody late night jack of "Electric Relaxation" and gets things off to a great start, leading up to the tough and swing fuelled roller "Shut 'Em Down" which is covered in a nice sheen of dust: this will appeal to fans of Robsoul or I'm A House Gangster style stuff. Samuel 'Astral' Walker's contributions take a much more mature approach and flirt with the deeper end of the spectrum. The emotive and sombre introversion of "Duality" respectfully takes it cues from greats like Larry Heard or Theo Parrish, while "Metaphysical Therapy" is more upbeat take on classic US house from the early '90s.

Move D / Justin Carter

To The Disco a77
Electric Minds

Legendary German DJ/producer David "Move D" Moufang first appeared on Electric Minds back in 2013. "To The Disco '77" was an undoubted highlight of that EP and here gets the remix treatment from the man himself. His "Live Rework" is a wonderfully loose and lucid affair, with quietly jazzy guitars, New Jersey garage organs and headline-grabbing vocal samples wrapping themselves around foreboding, low-end chords and nifty, on the fly drum machine programming. Moufang joins forces with Mister Saturday Night man Justin Carter for "Leaves (Basement Demo)", a wonderfully deep, rich and spacey house cut that recalls the long-serving German producer's intelligent techno era output (albeit with the added warmth of head-in-the-clouds deep house).

Eli Escobar

Shout
Classic

It would be fair to say that Eli Escobar's second album, Shout, is not a carefree affair. Inspired by his growing anger at American politics, it's a much more poignant and melancholic affair than his party-hearty debut album. As such, the 15-track set is arguably his strongest collection to date, with cuts such as "Nightmare Rag", the gospel influenced disco deep house cry for freedom "The People", twisted and intense "ANGR", blissfully slick and tactile "City Song" and superb "Going On?" - a kind of sorrowful deep house update of Marvin Gaye's most heartfelt work - proving that Escobar is a far more thoughtful and musically savvy producer than many incorrectly believed. There are plenty of groovy and quietly positive moments, too, fuelled by Escobar's belief that love may be the answer to America's mounting problems.

Around7

The Woman Behind Me
Robsoul France

It's fair to say that Around7 has become one of Robsoul's most fundamental artists, now having released over a dozen EPs for the French imprint. The Paris native has a distinctive sound, one that's embued with swinging MPC force and, of course, a deep-minded jazz sensibility that makes his music appealing to the diggers and DJs alike. Fittingly, "The Woman Behind Me" is a funky house nugget with a charging bass drum and some killer hyptnotics on the upper end of the arrangement; "U Talkin' To Me" is similarly funked-out, except the groove is stripepd back and more moody, unlike the more soulful strides of the samples forming the core of "Philter". All in all, a pretty angelic affair from the Parisian - keep it comin'!

Tracey

Testarossa
Voyage Direct

Having impressed with his previous Tracey EP on Voyage Direct - the sparkling, Detroit-influenced Skyfall - Tom Ruijg returns to action with an arguably even stronger four-tracker. Title track "Testarossa" is typically spacey, with Ruijg wrapping intergalactic electronics and lilting synthesizer melodies around a darting synthesizer bassline and swinging, electro-influenced house drums, while "Sidekick" doffs a cap to the new age-influenced style of Young Marco. On the flip he expertly combines elements of Chicago jack and NYC house on "Made My Love", before rounding things off with wild and windy electro workout "Interceptor". Throughout, Ruijg's colourful synths and dusty old drum machines take centre stage

Labeuz

Comme Tie Belle Nicole
Ondule Recordings

Ondule Recordings proudly welcome a new deep house sensation to their illustrious catalogue, the fresh-faced, jazz-minded Labeuz. "Beaches" is something of a winner for being a debut track, carrying a punchy groove consisting of bittersweet Rhodes keys, swinging drums and a little vocal trickery on the samples - a veritable tool with purpose. Following from that, "Dubways" strips the keys back in favour of weightier low frequencies and cavernous echo FX, leaving "Comme Tie Belle Nicole" to provide the warmth in the form of some pretty soulful, funk-driven melodies. Effective house swingers for the wider dance conglomerate.

Sebastien Leger

Lost Miracle
All Day I Dream

Sebastien Leger's discography is vast, to say the least, but the French producer rarely releases anything that's not up to scratch. Happily, this two-track missive on the admirable All Day I Dream imprint could be considered one of his most ear-catching EPs to date. What's most striking is the blissful, synthesizer-driven melodiousness at the heart of both "Lost Miracle" - a ten minute chunk of head-in-the clouds loveliness that layers a rolling tech-house groove with tumbling piano lines and swirling synthesizer motifs - and "Dida". The latter is little less than stunning, with Leger employing both sweeping strings and (presumably sampled) fretless bass style sounds with brilliant results.

David Hanke

Der Kugelkreis EXCLUSIVE
Hiperbole

Germany's David Hanke, who has been a revelation over recent months, is back and ready to kick some deep house into the masses! "Der Kugelkreis" is a mesmerizing opener, filled with jazzy nuances and an ethereal sort of glow to its synths that make it an instant hit with us here at HQ; everything from the tightness of the groove to the enchanting nature of its harmonies make what we like to call an 'instant buzz'. "Permutation" is a different sort of beast, breaking the 4/4 down to a slower, looser kind of shuffle - a wonderful tool to close the early morning sets with style and panache.

Ivan Fabra

Disco Estelada EXCLUSIVE
Nightnoise

The latest Nightnoise release comes from Ivan Fabra, an underground producer who shares the label's disdain for strict genre boundaries. Across the four tracks showcased on Disco Estelada, you'll find largely mid-tempo club workouts that slickly combine elements of rubbery deep house, bubbly nu-disco, life-affirming, sun-kissed Balearica, electrofunk and fizzing, Clavinet-fired disco. For peak-time plays, we'd suggest taking a listen to "Disco Estelada", where a fantastically elastic bass guitar line and rolling drums are peppered with attractive disco flourishes, though the lilting, dewy-eyed deep house bliss of closer "Vintageve" provides a fitting conclusion to a rock solid EP.

Malouane

Long Way For The Homies
In The Box

Malouane is Clement Mallein from Paris, who follows in the local tradition of creating sexy, late night deepness that exists behind a thick haze of smoke, if catch our drift. The influence of Pepe Bradock, DJ Gregory and DJ Deep can be heard all throughout this EP and when you've got reference points like these across your work - you're definitely in our good books. For local imprint In The Box, the 'Long Way For The Homies' EP follows up a great one by Marion Poncet (Traumer) and is the kind of dusty, sampladelic deep house that sits somewhere between the Three Chairs sound of Detroit and the sunkissed MPC jams of Berlin's Money $ex crew. From the sexy late night mood lighting of the title track and the lo-slung smokers delight that is "Keep Yo Mama Clean". There's a great remix of it up next - a sombre yet emotive rendition by Times Are Ruff that takes it further into the afterhours and Cody Currie's neon-lit boogie down version which by contrast brings something more uplifting.

Noraj Cue

Story At The Campfire
Happy Camper

The Happy Camper label dutifully launches with Noraj Cue, a house and techno specialist out of The Netherlands, whose oddball strain of 4/4 has the ability to capture the attention of the genre's fans both in and outside of the club. "Story At The Campfire" is a quirky, late-night jam focused on delivering the most intricate of harmonic blends, twisting and turning to a frazzled percussion groove. The remixes work harder to get the mood even deeper, with Mira & Chris Schwarzwalder adding yet more bass to the rhythm, Be Svendsen firing off a more tactical wave of sonics, and LetKolben switching the flow to a more uptempo sort of swing. Diamond tech-house swingers.

PG Sounds

Sued 07
Sued

PG Sounds may be a new name for the SUED cause, but the duo behind the music will be more than familiar to anyone that's kept tabs on this cultish Berlin label. Credits for this Untitled EP see SUED boss SVN as producer and his S.P. Posse partner Philip Gelberg as the writer, but regardless of the exact iteration of how PG Sounds are set up the two tracks here fall nicely into the open ended sonic universe that's grown organically around SUED, Acido and the Sex Tags crew.

Reminder Part 2
Sued

The Sued label is fast approaching the status of labels like Laton and Acido in our collective heart, and SW's latest record for the label is a perfect example of just why. While the first part of SW's Reminder offered a euphoric slice of techno that sounded like Shed going all-out with his more '90s ambient tendencies, this second record is a much more nuanced affair. The minimal yet driving percussive sounds of "Track 1" are complemented by the most delicate of synth backdrops, while "Track 2" sounds like the essence of Chicago house distilled down to the atomic level. "Track 3" is a much more straightforward deep house jam, and "Track 4" may call Mr Fingers to mind, but there's enough mathematical oddity in the rhythms to please the fans of more experimental fare as well.

Reminder Part 3
Sued

After the debut edition of his Reminder series on SUED, co-founder SW. delivers the third volume. This time round, he's looked to classic Motor City futurism, ambient techno and deep house for inspiration, returning to Earth with a quartet of cuts that combine a keen dancefloor sensibility with rich, expansive musicality. He goes slightly off-piste with the standout "Track 2" - whose high-tempo, African-influenced machine rhythms tip a hat to footwork amidst the intergalactic pads and eyes-closed chords - and successfully tries his hand at Kaidi Tatham style cosmic-bruk on the superb "Track 4". Both cuts provide a balance to the shuffling, sci-fi deepness he indulges in elsewhere.

Sued 06
Sued

Last seen together on a Sex Tags Mania record circa 2009, the XI pairing of Fett Burger and SVN join forces once more for some typically trippy house and techno cross pollinations on the latter's cultish SUED label. Elder scholars of the SUED way will know that one does not dither when it comes to a new record on the label but interested newcomers will still find this two track EP a perfect introduction into the label's understated ways. Essentially two variations on the same theme, cursory listens to "Beat Session" and "Dub Session" will not be enough to let their subtle charms take full effect. By the time you've had three listens you'll be proclaiming this your favourite record in some time.

Pg Sounds / DJ Fett Burger / Dynamo Dreesen

Sued 14
Sued

Number 14 from SW and SVN's delightful SUED label is a split artists affair offering further adventures in the art of extended, reduced rhythmics. The A-side is devoted to 15 minutes of Fett Burger and the PG Sounds pairing of Phillip Gelberg and SVN locking into a simple yet infectious groove and seemingly never letting go. As with a lot of SUED releases, the bottom end doesn't really come across on the sound clips - you need to hear this one out loud. Face down and we are treated to the rare sight of a solo production from Dynamo Dreesen which finds the Acido boss honing in on an off-kilter groove whilst PG Sounds round it out with a track that sounds like an offcut from the Berlin beatdown sessions that made up last year's SUED 10.

Yor Kultura

Lotus A EP
The Magic Movement

Dutch trio Yor Kultura head up the Laut & Luise imprint and are well regarded within mainland Europe's festival circuit - with appearances at some of the most respected events such as Garbicz Festival, Amsterdam Dance Event and of course America's infamous Burning Man. These guys can truly bring the goods! Beginning with the entrancing cosmo-balearica of "Lotus" with its woozy arpeggios and lazy rhythm patterns. On "Oak" they're then into some sleazy and slinky tech house (on the depper tip) that's perfect for the afterhours. The EP's true standout is the slo-mo tribalism of "Willow" with its smooth polyrhythms and hypnotic atmosphere, which you could imagine played live to much fanfare. It also gets a series of wicked remixes: Fleeting Wax main man Mehmet Aslan delivers a rendition that nails that indie-dance vibe, as heard by him on labels like Emotional Especial and Huntleys + Palmers. The dub mix by Aslan also features next and forgoes the wacky vocals for a more woozy and trance inducing version: that we were well into!

Bird Of Paradise / G Prod / Hermetics

RV Trax
R&S Belgium

Legendary Belgian imprint R&S are always on the pulse when it comes to showcasing the most dynamic talents at present within electronic music. On this new various artists EP they feature some young guns with fresh and impressive sounds on display. Other than heading up the Sulk Magic imprint, you would have heard Bird of Paradise from his hot releases for the likes of Correspondant, Throne of Blood or Me Me Me. The Steve Leggett dub of "Alone Again" is a tough and banging jacker that calls to minds the sounds of Tom Diciccio or Berlin's Fachwerk imprint - not what we were expecting, but not altogether unpleasant either! By contrast, the evocative classic house vibe of G-Prod's "D-Light" is one of those tracks that has you in its grasp from the first beat. Its lush chord progressions and immaculate rhythm programming is one of the best tracks we've heard in 2018 thus far. Finally, they get back onto the heavy artillery in the form of "Collider" by Argentinian producer Hermetics: here's a brooding and slow burning industrial techno workout.

Dresvn

Corbaci Bay
Sued

Acido label head Dynamo Dreesen and SVN team up again for another of their all-too-rare Dresvn collaborations. This time it arrives on the increasingly impressive Sued imprint which has seen excellent recent contributions from SW and SVN, and the Corbaci Bay EP offers another essential EP of idiosyncratic techno manoeuvres. The title track sees whispered synths propelled on a jetstream of marimbas, a rhythmic trait repeated in the hypnotic, head-nodding "Little Fever", which offers a deceptive amount of tonal depth. Those looking for something a little more club-ready however will be all over "Millions Of Trees", a veritable dub techno washing machine of a track which delivers its synth textures in high-resolution.

Club No-No & SVN

Sued 09
Sued

With little to no information on hand as to the genesis of this collaboration between SUED boss SVN and the superbly named Club No-No the imagination is left unfettered to speculate. Listening to both tracks, you are moved to ponder whether they are the result of SVN and Club No-No (aka Snorre Magnar Solberg) embarking on a field recording trip to the local zoo. The sounds of unspecified wildlife is wedged deep within the grooves of both sides, with the first track the sort of ambient techno you feel Actress wants to make as the merest of percolating textures and soft basslines hinting at a degree of rhythm amidst a calming backdrop of found sound. Then it is a markedly more urgent production and the lack of kick drum offers interesting mixing possibilities for the more talented of DJs out there.

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Sam Irl

Melting Memories EP
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Founded in 2014 by the fantastic French-producer S3A, this release follows releases by Byron The Aquarius, Neue Grafik, Cuthead and Henry L with an absolutely killer start to 2017. Vienna's Sam IRL is abck with more sultry deep house sounds on the Melting Memories EP. The Sampling As An Art imprint continues its ascension as one of the finest new labels in highly intelligent dancefloor sounds. The title track is testament to this, "Forward (Interlude)" goes for some dusty hip-hop dopeness and "Suave" merges sensibilites of both previous tracks wonderfully much like the Money $ex crew out of Berlin can. Final track "Calm" sounds vaguely familiar too: think Raw Cuts era Motor City Drum Ensemble.. and that's a compliment!

Byron The Aquarius

Euphoria EP
Sampling As An Art

The seventh release for Parisian label Sampling As An Art comes courtesy of Atlanta's Byron The Aquarius with the Euphoria EP. If you checked Byron's prior 2016 releases for Sound Signature and Wild Oats, you'll know to expect a diverse range of styles all produced with consummate expertise and that's exactly what we have on the Euphoria EP. There's some dusty hip hop joints like on "Intro", Coming To Detroit" and "The Essence" but there's also some real proper deep house. Like when we get treated with the wonderful "The Love Below" which is reminiscent of Fresh 'N Low and the rather KDJ sounding collaboration with S3A "Nights In Tokyo".

Cuthead

Presets Of Your Mind EP
Sampling As An Art

Cuthead's most recent release, 2014 album Total Sellout, portrayed him as a producer equally at home making swinging, off-kilter experimental hip-hop instrumentals as sample-heavy, soul-flecked deep house. It's these contrasting but complimentary styles that are once again explored on Presets Of Your Mind, a thrillingly warm and woozy mini-album for French imprint Sampling As An Art. While there's much to admire about the gentle dancefloor deepness of "From The Basket To The Casket" and "Bring Back The Snares", the standout house tracks here are undoubtedly "Presets of Your Mind" (built around a killer disco rhythm) and the shimmering electronics of "Dubchords". Best of all, though, are the head-nodding interludes, with the Fly-Lo style "Badly" standing out.

S3A

Note, Notes, Noten EP
Sampling As An Art

Can you believe that this is S3A's sixth record this year! And with beats like this we'd happily welcome another dozen. "Looping Strings" obviously needs no explanation whereas "The First Year" could easily be re-titled: "Looping Horns". "Seekin' Sunshine" introduces a Stevie Wonder funk to the EP and the French producer winds up a great vamp over the course of the track. S3A's final cut, The 4th" (variation 2)", is a bit of filtered disco house that lovers of early Francis Inferno Orchestra, Mic Newman and The Tortoise will scramble to get their hands on first.

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