HOUSEREVIEWS Daniel Trim
O Day EP Glasgow Underground
9.0
Under various guises, this producer from Barcelona has a solid 15 years of work at dance music’s coal face behind him, but as of 2011 he became Daniel Trim, and now he’s set to go stratospheric. That’s sometimes how it goes. ‘O Day’, the lead track on this EP, is audacious in every sense. If there’s a bigger breakdown in the past few years, we’d like it to make itself known, as this one swirls and builds its strings and stabs to fever pitch, a Balearic terrace anthem to thaw polar ice, as grand as ‘Knights Of The Jaguar’ and very much in that vein. Three other tracks, ‘Mind’, ‘Dali’ and ‘Hummm’ are quite unfairly eclipsed, as each, particularly the majestic ‘Hummm’, could carry an EP solo.
Alex Blaxx
The Evening News Buzzin’ Fly 8.5
Since the untimely demise of Whitney Houston, a few tracks have turned up featuring her vocals dissected and reassembled. This, from prodigious 21-year-old Alex Blaxx, uses ‘Love Will Save The Day’ deftly for Ben Watt’s Buzzin’ Fly, providing a soulful hook for a quietly euphoric, subtly anthemic slab of brilliance. As good is the flip, dubbed ‘Brian Fantana’, a track which somehow grasps precisely how deep house music sounded in 1993, a skill that betrays his years. This is exciting stuff from the newcomer.
Ashley Beedle
Yardism EP Girls Music 8.0
What Ashley Beedle doesn’t know about making house music you can write on the back of a postage stamp, or to be slightly less archaic, in an sms. Or a tweet. Anyway. This four-tracker for Girls Music is as solid an EP as you’ll hear all year, crossing the lines between bass and house. ‘Run The Track’ is jump-up madness, a Crystal Waters-esque synth line, some acid, stuttering drums, strings and a massive, massive break. ‘Your Acid Life’ finds a Speak & Spell on eBay and puts its through its paces, while ‘Only You’ is deep, yearning brilliance. ‘Inner Burning’ is Mr Fingers meets dancehall. You get the picture.
Dntel/Herbert
My Orphaned Son/It’s Only Pampa
9.0 The 12th release from DJ Koze’s peerless Pampa presents a pair of inspiring remixes. Die Vögel
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take on Dntel’s ‘My Orphaned Son’, turning in a stunner that sounds so at home at the label, it’s already moved in and is sitting in Koze’s easy chair, smoking his pipe and wearing his slippers. It’s odd, brassy and brilliant. But it’s Koze’s own mix of Matthew Herbert’s ‘It’s Only’ which will leave you gobsmacked. Treating Dani Siciliano’s vocals with deserved reverence, it’s a delicate, almost tear-jerkingly beautiful seven-and-a-half minutes.
Eats Everything
Slow For Me EP Futureboogie
8.0 Big stuff, as ever, from the big man of house music, Mr Daniel Pearce, aka Eats Everything. This three-tracker for his local label, Bristol’s Futureboogie, hints at his long-running love affair with old school hardcore, but without so much as going near a breakbeat. Halfway through ‘Tone Music’ come the rave stabs, straddling a rolling bassline like a track deconstructed and tranquilized from an Ellis Dee mixtape. ‘Lo To Hi’ is the track Hot Creations wish they’d signed, while ‘Doldrums’ embraces his inner garage, all stabs and skipping percussion.
Headman
It Rough Relish Recordings
8.5 German label Gomma first released Headman’s post-disco anthem ‘It Rough’ back in 2003, and now it’s been revived thanks to Relish Recordings, with some new angles kindly delivered by Scott Frazer and Remain, plus the classic Chicken Lips remix from the original release. It’s the Chicken Lips re-rub that is
(still) the stunner, a filthy acid groove, stuffed with 808 and 303 noises up the yin-yang. It’s truly irresistible. The 2012 version and the reprise are hard to ignore too, as is the stripped Remain mix and Fraser’s robotic turn.
Maxxi Soundsystem
Regrets We Have No Use For Hypercolour 8.0
Hypercolour continues the hot streak that has lasted, well, more or less since the label started in 2006. Brighton’s Maxxi Soundsystem (actually the singular Sam Watts) makes his debut on the label with the haunting, understatedly epic ‘Regrets We Have No Use For’, featuring a pulsing, hoover bassline and a languid vocal from Name One. Matthew Herbert, who does not turn it out for just anyone, goes robotic with his angular take on the track. The more it gets into your head, the more you can’t be without it.
Uffe
Stress Tartelet 8.5
Brilliance is always expected of Denmark’s Tartelet, simply because it always seems to deliver. Here it conforms to type, with a release from Uffe, who ruffled feathers with his debut release on Catz ‘N Dogz’ Pets Recordings earlier this year. The Amsterdam producer warms the soul with Rhodes piano and bass licks on ‘Something Wrong’, while ‘O.P.T.’ dispenses with foreplay and humps the keys, dropping his pounding drums only to introduce rave pads. Over, ‘Turbulence’ is spooky, off-key weirdness with a mix from Brandt and Nyholm of Muff Deep.
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01. DAN GHENACIA ‘Trax On Da Road’ Apollonia “This is the first solo release from Dan on Apollonia.”
02. TERRENCE TERRY & HANFRY MARTINEZ ‘Sunday Gathering
(Dyed Soundorom Remix)’ La Vie En Rose “It’s another killer remix from Dyed!”
03. OBSOLETE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY ‘Metropolitan View’ Dolly “A classic old skool beat with really nice pads.”
04. SCHATRAX ‘The Almighty’ Fear of Flying “This is a recent repress, and it’s so timeless.”
05. OSCAR SCHUBAK & ELI VERVEINE ‘Ness’ Tardis “An excellent tech house record just perfect to drive the club.”
06. PARANOID LONDON ‘Parsi Dubs 1’ Paranoid London “There’s an amazing vocal on here, definitely a hit.”
07. ALEJANDRO MOSSO ‘Nightwalker’ Airdrop “Brilliant acid track with a modern texture.”
08. THE MOLE ‘If I Had A Nickel’ Maybe Tomorrow “Another jam from one of our favorite producers ever.”
09. LE LOUP ‘4 My Homie’ Eklo “The young rising star of the Parisian scene, this is taken from his excellent
new double EP.”
10. LOW JACK ‘Slow Dance EP’ Low Jack “Crazy, druggy track from another producer from Paris.”
Bonum EP Tenth Circle 8.0
Greenville Massive (aka Greg Sawyer) drops four tracks of most considerable depth for Tenth Circle. The Vangelis- esque title track is the killer, but the dark groove of ‘Autumn’ gives it a good run.
Luke Solomon & Roual Galloway feat Cassio Ware and Vangella Crowe
Dance With Me Little Creatures 8.0
An all-star cast join Classic Records boss Luke Solomon, including the fabulous Cassio Ware. The result is a 21st century wig-out of colossal proportions. Buy on sight.
BEN ARNOLD
ben.a.arnold@
gmail.com Greenville Massive
QUICKIES Milton Jackson
Lessons Learned EP Black Key Records 8.5
Brighton’s Black Key turns out this dancefloor devastator from Milton Jackson. ‘See The Light’ is a chugging behemoth, while ‘5 Cities’ is pure hypnosis.
Taron-Trekka The Trekka Shak Phase
EP Freude Am Tanzen Recordings 8.0
Stellar deep house from German pair Taron-Trekka, ‘Sunkissed Shak’ and ‘Okoso Shak’ being of particularly fine quality, particularly when the former drops its bassline to stunning effect.
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