Album Review: Retromigration brings jazz & house together on Straight Foxin’
Retromigration drops Straight Foxin' for Wolf Music, an organic-sounding, musically rich album full of jazz-flavoured club and club-adjacent jams.
Hiroko Yamamura makes a festival-worthy Chicago house playlist
Chicago's Hiroko Yamamura selects 11 Chicago house festival tracks ahead of ARC Music Festival, coming this Labor Day Weekend (September 1 through September 3 2023) at Union Park.
Bright & breezy house grooves on Steve Mill’s “God Given”
Steve Mill's God Given EP is four track, smooth, slightly-disco-ish deep house affair, featuring spoken word vocals from Bongani Mehlomakhulu on Dirt Crew Recordings.
The impossible meeting of Ellen Allien & Ash Code
"Dance and Kill" is a "bridge from cold wave to techno" but the energies flow both ways in this impossible collaboration between German techno producer Ellen Allien and Italian Darkwave artists Ash Code.
Chicago’s Aathee releases the blazed “Pull Up” from Hopscotch
The latest releases from Aathee are picking up a head of steam like the blazed, nodding "Pull Up" by co-founder Hopscotch.
6th Borough Project returns to Delusions Of Grandeur on “Rhythm & Truth”
With little more than some gentle filter tweaks, you get seven minutes of relentless glitterball disco-tech. On Rhythm and Truth, 6th Borough Project drop a quality example of how to do loop-filter house well.
#ListenUp Moodymann remixes Róisín Murphy on “What Not To Do”
The new single drops ahead of Róisín Murphy's album Hit Parade out September 8.
Wareika channels the Holy Ghost on Tizinabi
Ornaments makes some beautiful vinyl and Wareika recorded some beautiful music for this one. The live electronic trio create a vivid tapestry for explorations in deep, dubby and esoteric sounds on new album Tizinabi.
Music from the deep archives of Marco Repetto comes alive on the Planet Love...
The Planet Love trilogy is a three 12" set pulled from the early 1990s archives of groundbreaking Swiss electronic music producer Marco Repetto.
#ListenUp Paris Cesvette and Chakra Blue – “Caving In”
Paris Cesvette and Chakra Blue team up for a cosmic soul crunch called Caving In on Sy Sez's Raising Records.
Brine, HATT.D & Naconda remix Blazers’ deep & rude “Stingray”
French producer Blazers has been stepping out in 2023, with original tracks that shine on this remix pack from Sengiley Recordings.
Choice Andrew Emil remixes on Yore’s “Nite Dreams”
Andrew Emil has been leaning in hard on showcasing his remixing skills and that's the theme of Nite Dreams from a leading light in the vinyl deep house world, Yore.
Platzdasch & Dix hit the mark on Apparent Movement
The German duo made up of producer David Platzdasch and pianist / keyboardist Holger Dix cultivate moods rather than making cookie-cutter dancefloor bangers-on-demand on Apparent Movement from Closer To Truth.
DJ Lady D makes a festival-worthy Chicago house playlist
Chicago's DJ Lady D selects her top 19 Chicago house festival tracks ahead of ARC Music Festival, coming this Labor Day Weekend (September 1 through September 3 2023) at Union Park.
Dial Tone is a dreamy four tracker from Dirt Crew & Petals In Sound
Rich, thick, dreamy, hazy house music, full of atmosphere from Liverpool artist Petals In Sound and Dirt Crew Recordings.
Apparel Music launches 7″ vinyl series with MINI001 and MINI002
Apparel is launching a pretty cool seven inch series with two plates released in June and August respectively with a flared-out disco/funk sound by the mysterious Apparel Wax.
Down the rabbit hole with Naux & 100 Dessus Dessous
There was a point about four hours ago when I had no idea who Naux was. I've been deep in a rabbit hole with the French producer's catalog and it's a very weird place to be.
Ladies & Gentlemen: the fantastically dope Degabah System
Fantastically dope, dirty and elegant by turns, the space-minded cosmonauts of Culture Power 45 present us with The Degabah System, an "interstellar" trio with their debut album Saqqara.
Toy Tonics drop a killer Kaidi Tatham remix of Cody Currie’s “Money”
Space-jazz-funk for the dance floor as cohort of incredible remixers give a new spin to Cody Currie's 2022 album track "Money" on Toy Tonics.
First Cut drops a 3 track V/A on “Crossing The Red Line”
First Cut welcomes TR One, Giles Armstrong and Reflection Port Assembly on shiny black wax on Crossing The Red Line.
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