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daVid MoRales & RoisiN MuRPHy ‘GOLDEN ERA’ (ULTRA MUSIC)


NOSTALGIA, it’s not what it used to be. While the US is madly in love with 21st century Euro-dance (with Swedish House Mafi a cast as Abba if they’d all had beards and a bromance), the UK is obsessed with reviving anything made before the turn of the millennium. David Morales’ garagey mix from the recent Ministry 20th Anniversary box set was heavy with sounds inspiring the likes of Disclosure and Bicep now, and it’s this ‘Golden Era’ he


returns to on his new single. A slice of swinging disco- inspired dance, it wryly mocks the schism bubbling in the US between old school players like himself and the new stadium fi lling superstars, throwing its hat in the ring for vinyl and retro sampling. Cue plenty of online trolling and the debate as to what constitutes ‘real’ house rolling on and on...


TOMSON & BENEDICT


HAVING released on Freerange, Hudd Traxx, Morris Audio and Urban Torque, Mancunian duo Tomson & Benedict launch their own we_ctrl label in July with the ‘we_ctrl 001’ EP (released 2nd July on vinyl and 16th July on digital). The three tracks from it — one each solo, and another as a pair — feature on their podcast which digs deep into the revivalist bump of US garage. Showing its


current widespread infl uence, with tracks ranging from the South Coast’s Jordan Peak to Parisian Bambounou, a member of bass modernists Clek Clek Boom, it’s as stripped and raw as Tomson & Benedict’s debut label release title, utilising classic 909 drums and organ sounds to evoke the true spirit of house.


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