When you absolutely, positively must decimate the dancefloor, these are the tunes you need…
Ossie/PhOtO Machine/ Palace ‘Love Below 002’ Love Below
soundcloud.com/ossieproducer A trio of edits from three imaginative producers adorn this new 12” (red vinyl only). Ossie takes his scalpel to Fela Kuti’s peerless ‘Shakara’, giving it a subtle house tweak (added 4/4s, percussion and synths) and making the already irresistible Afro funk horn groove even more playable. PhOtO Machine gives Musiq Soulchild’s ‘H.E.R’ a subtle slow thump, while Palace’s take on Tweet’s ‘Oops’ gives Hud Mo’s version a run for its money.
Unknown/Francis Inferno Orchestra ‘Biscuit Twat (Linkwood Remix)/3am Piano Thing’ Voyeurhythm
voyeurhythm.com Don’t let the comedy title of this ace houser put you off. We’re unsure what the original sounds like, but in the hands of Scotland’s cosmic funk technician Linkwood, it’s a star-strafing space jam, rolling on delicious Chicagoan analogue house bass, and echoing, gorgeous panoramic keys. Memorable. The flip’s a slamming piano stabber with ride cymbals and claps aplenty.
Head High ‘Burning’ Power House Shed combines white-glove wearing piano house with the overdriven crunch of Berlin brutalism using his rave revivalist moniker, Head High. ‘Burning’ comes in two versions — ‘Keep It’ cuts to the chase with a piano intro before frazzled, distorted drums join the fray, while ‘Keep Calm’ rides heavy breakbeats for an easier mix in, until the euphoria unfolds. ‘Keep On (Talking Dirt Mix)’ takes you on a leaner, more heads-down ride, but with a mammoth kick and a chopped, restrained break, still wears its hardcore heart on its sleeve.
Various
‘Keysound Allstars Vol.2’ Keysound
facebook.com/Keysoundrecordings Etch’s ‘Scattah’ is a broken half-time junglist roller, where crisp drum breaks clatter over a bassline more than reminiscent of the old school d&b ‘Dred Bass’ sound; better still is Manchester wonder kid Walton’s ‘Homage’, a tribute to the heydays of hardcore, jungle and garage rolled into one, its clipped two-step garage breakbeats, tumescent bass and clever samples a late-night treat. Visionist and Fresh Paul’s grime beats are also wicked but it’s the first two cuts that clinch it.
John Talabot ‘So Will Be Now
(Extended Club Edit)’ Permanent Vacation
soundcloud.com/john-talabot
Darius Syrossian
‘Who’s The Douche?’ Hot Natured
soundcloud.com/dariussyrossian This is a pearl of a title track, all booming bassline, skipping snares, classic old school pads at the break and more groove than a joiner’s workshop. Collaborating with Hector Couto on the other three tracks, there’s not a weak link in sight. ‘We Both Loco’ reprises the bass sound last heard on ‘Metal’, ‘House Is House’ is another lethal roller and ‘Can You Feel It?’ asks exactly that. If you can hear us Darius, yes we can.
Jesse Perez & Jimmy Edgar ‘Heidi Presents Jackathon Jams’ Heidi Presents Jackathon Jams
soundcloud.com/heidi-dj Jesse Perez takes his roughneck Miami house to the next level, opening with the siren-filled, dick- swinging attitude of ‘We Get Fucked Up’. ‘Make You Scream’ is an equally raw mix of ‘90s Miami bass/hip-hop samples and stuttering drums, but best of all is the Ice-T hip-house of ‘Interacial Booty Calls’. Jimmy Edgar makes it more techno.
HOW do you improve upon perfection? Ask John Talabot. The elusive Barcelona-based DJ/ producer made a splash last year with a galactic debut album (‘FIN’), managing to whisk trippy disco into a Balearic alt.pop Crema Catalana confection. It wasn’t really geared towards the dancefloor, apart from the final track which canny eagle- eared DJs swooped upon. Finally released as a single, it’s a wonder Talabot’s crowning jewel hasn’t been pushed to the forefront before now. ‘So Will Be Now’ in its original form was a deadly, low-slung house cut powered by a truly evil sub-acid bassline and a pitched-down but totally uplifting cut-up vocal. Favoured by the UK bass family,
despite Talabot’s scene outsider status, its popularity pivoted on the foregrounding of that diabolical, speaker-imploding low-end. But it was also the continuous build of the track, the introduction of the immense synth waves, and how they interplayed with the rhythms beneath that gave ‘So Will Be Now’ far more memorable power than your typical mix fodder. Already a masterclass in slow-rising
smoulder, with a breakdown that did tension-and-release without resorting to crass snare rolls, this new version makes it more DJ-friendly, elongating the intro, adding extra percussive heft and stretching the whole ecstatic affair into the epic it was always meant to be.
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