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3 Amigos feat Dawn
Jay Lumen Silk-black and city-scaping Tallman
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A proper thrill-ride. Tense, Spacelight Orches-
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exciting riffs, stabs and tra Golly gosh, soulful house is still alive and
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snare-less peaks are all An Orchestra Of well, and who would have thought that the
or studio machined to wow a Remixes Vol.2 bloke who wrote the theme music to the
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crowd. Love it. Black Bridge Ricki Lake show could still turn out dope shit
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Josh Gabriel One great, kinda rare George Mena and Marlon D, who work the
khill, Leg
Entanglement groove/funk cut-up thing, ‘3 Amigos Club Mix’ and that is where the
Different Pieces and a percussion-driven buck stops, ’cos it’s tha shit! Dawn Tallman is
house number with dirty outstanding, plain and simple.
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prog than his last one.
Ferry Ultra feat Gwen McCrae beats building up to the shitty brass or and atmosphere are iced by multi-
Let Me Do My Own Thing crap keyboard sound that jus’ wanders stranded top lines that echo, pan and
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Peppermint Jam around, not knowing where to go next. shuffle their way around the speakers.
You never know where or when they’re
I scoured every record shop in the UK Sven Hauck going to pop up next! Good mixes from
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for this and finally picked it up at the Recombinate Josh Dupont, Grunjah and Vitas Merkel.
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shir Southport Weekender. A massive spin Baroque Limited
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with the modern soul scene and why Guy J
not, there’s many a good tune played on I’ve not heard a bad Hauck track yet, Ballroom
an old fiddle, and let’s face it, McCrae is and ‘Recombinate’ is another very Bedrock
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a Stradivarius when it comes to whack- competent driving number, with a judi-
ing out a soulful vocal over soulful beats. ciously played melodic top line. On the A letdown compared to Guy’s ‘Lamur’
CHEF DE PARTY
remix, Derek Howell shakes things up missive. The quirk, funk and drive are
JAM THE BOX
Waxman with some stabbed synth business and gone, replaced instead by a sterile,
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Heaven’s Will an outside-the-box mid-section. trudging tempo and lead line. Ed Dav-
FLOATInG POInTS ‘Vacuum Boogie’ Eglo Recordings
“Beautiful, highly original and kinda difficult to pigeonhole.” Electric Sheep Records enport rushes it into remix rehab and
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Ilya Mosolov brings it back out in at least partially
SHOW B ‘Moory’ Compost Black Label
“Bleeps and bloops in all the right places.” Possibly too techy for some readers, Surge/Cristallization refreshed form.
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but check out the deep and delectable Electrofly
ArT OF TOnES FEAT JAW ‘Call The Shots’ 2020Vision
“A chunky, deep, driving groover that seems to roll on relentlessly.” ‘Elysium’, with its phat, subby bass and Paul Thomas
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sexy, wispy female vocal parts that Electrofly continue to impress with their Onzieme
LInkWOOD ‘System’ Prime Numbers
“Sheer awesomeness from the heart of Leith.” dance in between the shoulder wiggling breakbeat prog factors. Speedy, with Baroque
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minimalist percussion. ‘Heaven’s Will’ kicks that crave being turned up loud,
ICHISAn ‘Space Patrol’ Solar Disco
“Another stunning vision of deep space from Ichisan.” moves left-of-centre into a deeper, prat- the inflection of the riff laid over ‘Surge’ In its original form ‘Onzieme’ is a
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tling percussive groove, with heavenly does it proud. If you’re after something chunky, thudding number that broods
rETrO/GrADE ‘Zoid’ White
“A seriously ramped-up re-edit of Automat’s 1978 track ‘Droid.’” vocal chords and tearful strings sweep- a bit more chilled, the long held notes of its way through its runtime — only oc-
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ing the bars with big bold strokes. ‘Cristallization’ will do the trick. casionally flexing its muscles with a big
ZWICkEr ‘Dragonfly (Soul Tourist remix)’ Compost Black Label
“A deep, soulful excursion into a tropical paradise.” horn sound. On the remix, Josef Mihalik
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Soulfricans Electroaspect opens it up with an unexpected and very
STILL GOInG ‘Untitled Love’ DFA
“Eric Duncan and Liv Spencer are right on the money.” Sex In Africa Intuition effective pair of melodic drops, before
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Launch Entertainment Nightshade kicking back in with a tempered play on
AZArI & ILL ‘Hungry For The Power’ I’m A Cliche
“Quality track on Cosmo Vitelli’s label.” the horn. Strong track with a fine remix
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Dreary and irritatingly dull. A harp A classically prog outing that has it all. — can you ask for anything more?
SOUL rEnEGADES ‘I Won’t Let You Go’ Fresh Minute Music
“Does exactly what it says on the tin!” sample whirls away over chugging Great drum and percussion work, pace
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