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	This week's deep house selections Friday 30 March 2018

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Albrecht La'Brooy

Escape Velocity
Voyage Recordings

Up next on Melbourne's Voyage Direct imprint are a couple of homeboys - namely Alexander Albrecht and Sean La'Brooy, following up great releases on the label recently by Flori and Youandewan. The pair's improvised electronic music has also appeared on fellow Aussie imprint Night Tide and of course their own Analogue Attic in recent times. Four brilliant servings of emotive house: from the evocative, spaced-out mood of "Escape Velocity", to the deep classic techno of "Gravity Assist" (calling to mind the early sounds of Detroit and Sheffield) or the bittersweet closer "Memories" - which is lush deep house just the way we like it.

Soul Clap feat Robert Owens

Misty
Classic

More than a few eyebrows were raised - and dancefloors slain, more importantly - when Soul Clap's collaboration with legendary house vocalist Robert Owens first appeared in stores back in 2015. This expansive new reissue gathers together the pick of first wave reworks (most notably the fuzzy, sub-heavy, analogue-rich stomp of Louie Vega's "Swirl Bass" version and chugging, punk-funk-meets-dub house inspired "Roots NYC Mix"), adding a string of tasty new reworks. Of these, we're particularly enjoying the subtly dreamy bliss of Rogue D's remix and the more organic feel of the standout "Hammer & Tongs Mix", though Rocco Rodamaal's "Deep Remix", which wraps delay-laden electric piano flourishes around a rubbery Afro-house rhythm, is also superb.

Ben Sun

Strange Roads At Night
Voyeurhythm Holland

Some seven years after dropping his debut release, Delusions of Grandeur regular and Voyeurhythm boss Ben Sun is finally ready to drop his debut album. Interestingly, he's chosen not to pack the set full of tried-and-tested dancefloor workouts, instead delivering a "proper album" in which gentle downtempo soundscapes, head-in-the-clouds Balearic gems, jazzy interludes and sparkling, sun-kissed slow-house workouts (see the brilliant "Sin Casa") sit side by side with the club-ready vibes of blissful early Chicago house tribute "Salty Tears", tech-soul treat "Monday", rave-era analogue house stomper "Still Missing" and crystalline synth-house number "Maman's Lover". Musically expansive, colourful and impeccably produced throughout, "Strange Roads at Night" is a very impressive debut album.

Ess O Ess

Take You To A Secret Place EXCLUSIVE
Not An Animal

Not An Animal are known for their heated takes on the art of disco-sampling house music, and Ess O Ess is one of the key factors in defining that sound. This comes through in spades on Take You To A Secret Place, where the title track comes marching out atop a deadly bassline that will cut through any mix to get the people freaking out. The dub mix is equally deadly, flying a generous dose of cosmic sparkle into the mix without losing the punch in the original production. Kuniyuki Hard takes a daring approach that slows the track down to a creep and emphasises space and tension. The Angophora version is even more drastic, seemingly stripping all the recognisable elements of the track out and leaving behind a plaintive thread of ambient instrumentation.

OJPB

Lucy's Stomp
Lazy Days US

Fred Everything's Lazy Days label is always one for summery sounds, and they've got that in abundance from Parages label regular OJPB. The vibe on "Lucy's Stomp" is insanely upbeat, all cheery funk licks with a little French psychedelia draped over the top. "Mis A Part Et Fini" has a more dreamy outlook with its sky-reaching lead synths and hazy strings. Fred Everything dives in on "Bridgetown's Pyramid" and makes it into a sizzling bongo-powered groover, bringing out the warm ingredients in OJPB's original and matching it with his instinct for a sustained dancefloor atmosphere.

Phil Weeks

That House Groove
Robsoul France

More funked-up disco loops than you can shake an MPC at here, courtesy of Parisian specialists Robsoul. Label chez Phil Weeks taking up the reins and showing us hows it's done, as always. On the That House Groove EP, he serves up four examples of straight up boompty business - from the lo-slung shuffle of the title track (which features a bit 303 acid for good measure), as does the following track "Extra Dry" but this one's far more of a late night/heads down affair for basement parties. We particularly enjoyed the sexy, late night mood lighting of end track "Get On Up" which nails that classic deep house aesthetic just perfectly.

Blond:ish

Eeeyaaa EP
Get Physical Germany

Let's make it clear: they're not exactly blonde, but rather, Blond:ish - and they're continuing on with their winning streak of releases that have appeared on the best of the best like Katermukke, Rebirth and Kompakt recently. The German duo strut their stuff for Berlin powerhouse Get Physical on this occasion, where they serve up the deep tribal rain dance of "Eeeyaaa" - proper esoteric business to rock the Sunday afterhours scene. It also accompanies the funked-up disco house shenanigans of "Wa Is Da Wa", this loopy cut calls to mind the French Touch experiments of the late '90s: think Motorbass or Cassius.

Denney

Serenade
Knee Deep In Sound

Leeds man James Denney is back after a strong release on Nic Fanciulli's Saved imprint - this brand a new killer for local powerhouse Knee Deep In Sound titled "Serenade" comes with a series of tight remixes. Where the original treads a slinky and hypnotic route accompanied by sleek 303 acid, funky cowbells and sexy vocals, UK legend Bushwacka takes it down a darker more tunnelling route for the late night. Elsewhere, New York City's Joeski strips things down and goes deeper - he even offers an Alternative remix at the end which pumps it up with some tough syncopated rhythm patterns with added dancefloor dynamics.

Earth Trax / Newborn Jr

Maze EP EXCLUSIVE
Dopeness Galore

Polish producers Earth Trax and Newborn Jr are regular collaborators, with their previous joint releases for Rhythm Section International, Les Yeux Orange and Echovolt offering dreamy, loved-up deep house thrills by the bucket-load. Interestingly, this first EP for Dopeness Galore sees them take a slightly different approach, combining ultra-deep and dubbed-out cuts (see the dub techno meets dream house flex of "Tech Noir" and rhythmic ambient rush of "Diamond Edge") with much more forthright and robust club workouts. Check, in particular, the bustling breakbeats, heavy sub-bass and spaced-out riffs of "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" and opener "Maze", where '80s Euro-disco stabs and trance-like electronics rise above a delay-laden deep house groove.

Soul Clap / Doorly / Charlie Rope / Rick Trainor / Noah Schy

Think Sideways Edits Vol 1
Reptile Dysfunction

Reptile Dysfunction's latest EP is packed to the rafters with peak-time fare. It's the first volume in what the label promises will be a continuing series and offers up a quartet of slamming, disco-fired "Club Edits". Predictably, Soul Clap steals the show with "Moov to Tha Beat", a swirling, string-laden workout laden with dreamy pads, well-placed delay effects and bubbly analogue drums. Doorly does a brilliant job combining aquatic P-funk bass and thrill-seeking disco samples on the superb "Lads Lads Lads", while Rick Trainor and Noah Schy's "Take It Down" is an impressively sweaty sample-house workout built around the principle of teasing out the action for maximum impact. As for Charlie Rope's "All For You", it's a shirts-off disco-house stomper that just gets bigger and bigger throughout.

Kerri Chandler / Dennis Ferrer / DJ Roland Clark / DJ Pierre

Nite Grooves Remixed EP Part 4
NiteGrooves US

If you're looking for fresh, floor-focused versions of vintage U.S house and garage jams, then Nite Grooves' "Remixed" series should be essential listening. Predictably, there's much to admire on Volume 4, not least Pachangastorm's intense, driving "Wild Pitch Re-Edit" of DJ Pierre's big room-bothering, acid-fired, Martin Luther-King sampling "Overcome". We're also huge fans of DJ Spen's version of Kerri Chandler's Afro-deep jam "Coro", which peppers a chunky groove with vocal yelps, muted horn stabs and a fine rising and falling synthesizer melody. Elsewhere, Matt Prehn delivers a rich, heavily electronic deep house rub of Roland Clark's Urban Soul project and Francesco Chiocci wraps delay-laden synths stabs and sultry female vocals around a dubby big room groove on a fine revision of Dennis Ferrer's alluring "Touched The Sky".

Davide Squillace

Once Upon A Time In Napoli
Crosstown Rebels

While Davide Squillace has been churning out underground hits for the best part of 20 years, his only previous full-length excursion was a compilation of remixes back in 2011. Once Upon a Time in Napoli, then, is a landmark release for the storied Italian producer. For the most part, the material sits somewhere between deep house and tech-house, with a range of intriguing influences - Balearica, synth disco, dub house, Afro-house and, most surprisingly, punk-funk - stirred in to add extra spice to Squillace's percussive and peak-time-friendly productions. Highlights come thick and fast, from the woozy brilliance of vocal opener "The Boogie Man" and deliciously wild and sweaty "Vostok", to the breezy deep house positivity of "Holy Motors" and low-slung "Napoli Texas', which is arguably the album's moodiest cut

Harry Wolfman

Nemoto EP
Outplay

Following a whole string of dope dispatches on the likes of Dirt Crew, House Of Disco, Lost My Dog, London's Wolfman makes his debut on Dutch deep house imprint Outplay. Four cuts in total, as always with Harry, both vibe and variety are the main priorities. "Hitch" is a loose-grooved hazy strutter with alluring percussion, "Pigs In Blankets" is as tasty as its name suggests with velvet falsettos, dreamy pads and slinky sleazy bass, "Nemoto" is the stone cold jacker of the pack with powerful filtered licks and a beat that you never want to quit. Finally "STS 136" bids us adieu on a sub-100 slo-mo strut. Heavy in the reveries with deep woozy flourishes, it's the perfect conclusion to yet another perfect EP from Harry. Bon voyage.

Kolja Gerstenberg

East Shake
Monologues

Kolja Gerstenberg is a 24 year old producer from Leipzig Germany that's had releases previously on top deep house imprints like Quintessentials, SUOL and Smile For A While - which gives you a strong idea of where his sound is coming from. Up next on promising London based imprint Monologues, he serves up three fine examples of Berlin styled deep house on the East Shake EP. From the sunkissed, hip-hop inspired MPC deepness of "Erdball", to the funky breaks of "Muffsound", or "Herber 660" with its sexy late night groove complete with jacked vocals for added effect. A bonus remix comes in the form of G Markus' early '90s UK rave rendition of "Muffsound" which was killer!

Demuja

Come To Me
Madhouse

Fresh from the recent release of his killer Vinum EP on Let's Play House, Salzburg sort Bernard Weiss brings his Demuja project to Madhouse for the very first time. The EP is headed up by "Come To Me", a rubbery chunk of classic deep house rich in saucer-eyed vocal samples, lilting Rhodes chords, bustling stabs and crunchy machine drums. Folamour's accompanying remix naturally pushes the track further towards warm and woozy deep house territory - via the box marked "glassy-eyed late night positivity" - before Demuja unfurls two fantastic bonus cuts. Of the pair, it's "Take", a tribute to early New Jersey deep house rich in buzzing synth-sax and memorable chord progressions, that arguably hits home hardest.

Vincent Floyd

Contemplation Of Deepness EP
Traxx Underground

Has Vincent Floyd released a duff record? Certainly, we've yet to hear one. Predictably, Contemplation of Deepness is another superb selection of cuts from the veteran U.S deep house producer. The title track, in particular, is gorgeous: a soft focus chunk of spacey deep house replete with whispered spoken word vocals, elongated chords and cascading synthesizer melodies. Lerosa's remix is rather good, too, and adds a little percussive grunt and rhythmic urgency without losing any of the melodious goodness. Also worth a listen is the surprisingly organic-sounding bonus cut "Aurrora's Smile", whose warmth and musical richness is emphasized by elastic jazz-funk bass guitar, ear-pleasing guitar chords and a surprisingly swinging drum track.

Gabriele Poso

Awakening
BBE

Sardinian percussion magician Gabriele Poso returns with his fourth artist album. Landing four years after his incredible Invocation (and the consequent remix album Electric Invocation) it's an instant deep dive into his beguiling world of fusion. Everything you need to know its spirit can be found laced into its charming, barbed title track. All flutes, pianos and star-lit harmonies and gradual percussive momentum, it sets the scene, pace and heart of the album. Other highlights include the Amazonian swathes and drum cascades of "6 In 4", the hazy desert lament of "Sotto Il Campanile" and the full-throttle percussion blast of the opener "Playa 80". An immaculate return.

Kraak & Smaak / Various

Poolside Miami 2018 (unmixed tracks)
Toolroom Longplayer

Dutch super trio Kraak & Smaak go poolside: Miami style here for Toolroom. Indeed this compilation showcases the many shades of house music that soundtracked some serious fun in the sun, at 2018's edition of Miami Music Week. The longtime staples of the UK imprint Jalapeno serve up all things deep, funky, nu-disco and even a bit of French Touch for good measure. Highlights include Lindstrom & Prins Thomas' disco odyssey - translated via their remix of Temples' "Born Into The Sunset", Freerange boss Jimpster's lush and hypnotic "English Rose" (original mix), last year's comeback by Parisian legend Alex Gopher & Pierrick Devin on "Jazz Rock" (receiving another well deserved rinse!) and the inimitable Detroit legend Andres with his remix of Cool Peepl's "Free" (feat Billy Love, Amp Fiddler & Sundiata O.M). Several of the trios funked-up tracks feature throughout in addition to a continuous mix of the playlist.

Cab Drivers

Alternative Acts
Cabinet Germany

Berlin's finest and Cabinet Records head honchos Jens Augustowsky and Daniel Paul return for more perfect loops with their signature all hardware setup. The most infectious and hypnotic minimal house served up to perfection on their newest offering. It starts off with the plonky swing fuelled groove of "Alternative Acts": a signature sound of theirs which you can hear in the work of other artists they no doubt influenced such as Mike Shannon. Then, there's the deep and emotive "Drive One" supported by thunderous toms and bittersweet pad textures complete with perfectly filtered chords. Finally "Holiday Ahead" is the most positive and uplifting offering here and perfect to play just as the sunlight starts to peer through the blinds on Sunday morning: there's hell of a lot of soul on this boompty acid jam.

Huxley

HuxCOIN
Origins

Tring's finest returns and lets it be known that even he has given into the whole hysteria surrounding the Blockchain craze- if his new HuxCOIN EP is any giveaway. Huxley serves up three perfect perspectives of dancefloor ready tech-house here: from the slinky and hypnotic groove of "Eastside" (which is sure to make the sweat drip from the walls) or the funky party starter "Struttin" which borrows more from classic Stateside formulas. With its emotive piano lines and dusty, swing-fuelled rhythms beneath the pitched down diva vocal hooks - this one's hot! If that was not enough, London based minimal house hero Alex Celler makes a surprise appearance; he's on form as always with a remix of the latter track, which takes things into tripper and reductionist territory and perfect for getting weird at the afterhours.

Brother Nebula

A Brief History Of Lasers
Legwork

The Legwork crew is keeping tight-lipped about the identity of the "mystery artist" behind the Brother Nebula project, and the accompanying info sheet simply describes the record as being a collision of "rave" and "space-time". It's a fairly apt description, with bass-heavy opener "Parting Infinity" brilliantly joining the dots between late '80s UK grooves and the shimmering, intergalactic electronics of electro. Then, the unknown Brother wraps dreamy pads and wonky electronic motifs around a thrusting early tech-house groove on "It Hurts To Ask", before doffing a cap to the retro-futurist dreaminess of Ex-Terrestrial on title track "A Brief History of Lasers".

Art Alfie

Velvet Pony Trax 1
Velvet Pony

Swedish enfant terrible Art Alfie returns with more dusty and soulful disco loops presented in splendid fashion as always, for the first edition of his new Velvet Pony imprint. From the deeply sunkissed and lo-slung groove of "Soft Spoken" to the tough swing-fuelled shuffle of "Front" (feat Manns Glaeser) which is assisted by a throbbing 303 bassline - these are a couple of solid tracks. Velvet Pony signals the opening of a new door for Art Alfie - the project arrives after a highly acclaimed album on Studio Barnhaus, as well as his first solo EP on Karlovak last year.

Various

Take It To Church EXCLUSIVE
Midnight Riot

While gospel has always been a strong influence in the worlds of house and disco, the volume of spiritually charged dancefloor tracks has rocketed in recent times. Hence this fine compilation from Midnight Riot and "gospel supremo" the Showfa, which gathers together new, recent and overlooked gospel-fired dancefloor jams. We're particularly enjoying Yam Who and Alan Dixon's brilliant new version of the Soup Dragons' "I'm Free" - think classic, Balearic-era baggy house with more prominence given to the London Gospel Choir's vocals and Dixon's wild organ lines - Le Visiteur's low-slung re-edit of an old gospel-disco gem ("Let The Sunshine") and the rubbery boogie-gospel-goes-filter-house excitement of Benjamin Ferreira's "What U Will". That said, there's barely a duffer to be found amongst the 19 tracks on show, with the emphasis rightly on celebratory positivity throughout.

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Youandewan

Luna Via
Voyage Recordings

Scotsman in Berlin Ewan Smith aka Youandewan is back, after releases on the likes of 2nd Drop, Ornaments and Secretsundaze but this time for Australian label Voyage. Kicking off with some high tech soul in the form of "Ciel" traversing that same universe as Space Dimension Controller, he then gives us the emotive, slow-mo deep electro of "Vessel" featuring spacey pads, huge bass pulsations and dreamy melodies. Finally "Stranger (Glad Eye mix)" gets into some dusty, jazzy/soul business but still keeping that beautifully bittersweet melancholia intact like before. Watch out for his upcoming LP on the mighty AUS too!

Andy Hart

Mistress In Your Mind
Voyage Recordings

Having contributed a track to the split EP that announced Voyage Recordings, founder Andy Hart has since largely focussed on building the label through some canny A&Ring that's seen singles from the likes of Harvey Sutherland, M5K and Urulu. There was the introduction of Hart's Auslander project with Tom Lalley and Fantastic Man in the label's 2015 output too, but the recently-settled Berlin resident hasn't offered up any solo output in some time! Which makes the clutch of brushed deep house burners that feature on this Mistress of your Mind EP most welcome indeed Andy. There are hints that Hart's new surrounds and regular gigs in Berlin are starting to bleed through into his productions - see the heat-treated "Sorayama's Mistress" and full throttle percussive onslaught of "Vienen." It's a development we wholeheartedly approve of!

Urulu

Greetings From Namek
Voyage Recordings

Having made a significant impression via killer releases from Harvey Sutherland, M5K and Auslander, Voyage Recordings attempts to enhance their reputation further via a four-track blast of bumpin' deepness from Steve Urulu. The journeyed Los Angeles producer hits the mark from the off, combining swinging, low-slung beats and fluid, looped pads on floor-friendly opener "Night Tube". An extended bongo passage gives way to dreamy chords and tactile, late '80s style synth bass on the spacey "Orion", before the horizontal rush of IDM/ambient house tribute cut "9045xy" takes over. The EP's final moment, the wonderful "Lullaby", continues on this theme, expertly combining drowsy, drifting chords, starry electronics and a speaker-rattling sub-bass line.

Harvey Sutherland

Brothers
Voyage Recordings

Those who heard Harvey Sutherland's excellent debut EP for Echovolt, Edges EP, will be familiar with his trademark sound - a toasty, analogue style take on deep house marked out by jazz-funk chord progressions, warming synthesizer melodies and shuffling grooves. He changes the script a little on this EP for Voyage Recordings, though there's still plenty of seductive deep house to enjoy (most notably opener "Oscillate" and the Inskwel style, boogie-influenced loveliness of "Bamboo"). Where the EP really comes into its own, though, is when he tries a different tack. "Old Wars" sounds like Moon B's electrofunk explorations wrapped in a snuggly duvet, while "Close Quarters" successfully fixes Herbie Hancock style synth melodies to loose, cymbal heavy beats.

Ctepeo 57 / Harvey Sutherland / Andy Hart / Saine

Voyage Sampler 01
Voyage Recordings

Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Voyage Recordings are a new label with a thing for the deeper side of life. That's all good with us, especially when it's as slickly produced as the four tracks found here. With all their key artists making appearance, we get gently washed out to sea on tranquil waves of slo-mo dance starting with CTEPEO 57's jazzy, stoned-house, the velvety smoocher "Rosebud", the lean and serene bliss-house of "Dreams on Kepler" and moody electro-house closer "Gravy". Slick!

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