Harold Heath
Harold is a music journalist, DJ, producer, music-tech tutor and all round smartass.
Two nicely put-together deep house tracks here, taken from Felipe Gordon's four-track My Legs Are Numb EP on Bristol's Shall Not Fade label.
"Like a 1989 UK illegal rave in book form": Harold Heath looks back on Jane Bussman's Once In A Lifetime, one of dance music's finest books.
More good stuff from the newly returned Nu Groove, this time from Italian long-time house player Tuccillo and his four-track Frames EP.
Jazz-ish house done right: Session Victim remix Sweatson Plank's "The Road to Love" for Friends of Friends.
Harold Heath on Jazz Nagas, eight tracks of high-end underground Detroit deep house from Niko Marks.
Four tracks of tracky, loopy, quietly potent deep house tracks from Chicago-raised Daniel Chavez on Deep Club.
The shop's label Flexi Cuts has put together a five-track compilation from Flexi-affiliated producers and artists including Lex and Locke, DJ Rocca, Club Soda, Hiroyuki Kato and The Mechanical Man.
Harold Heath has questions, perhaps Jamie xx and Honey Dijon have the answers.
Three tracks of smoky, intoxicating, moody but uplifting deep house, deftly programmed, professionally arranged, pristinely mixed, mastered and then pressed onto wax from Alton Miller on Mister Bear.
Potent and classy deep dance floor tracks from Felipe Gordon on Phonogramme.
A refined collection from Fred Everything, Love, Care, Kindness & Hope sounds like the best of Lazy Days Recordings distilled down to a single album.
Four tracks of peak time underground deepness here courtesy of Scottish producer Wallace, ranging from deep house to garage and deep tech.
Last summer's debut album from JIM, aka Jim Baron of Crazy P aka Ron Basejam was album of the year for many, a superb, accomplished mix of Balearic singer-song writing, acoustic ballads, soft-yacht and sub-disco.
"An audio love letter to American 4/4" - Harold Heath on the proper deep house & techno debut album from Sub Club resident Dominic Cappello.
Nice four track package from Austin Texas' Whiskey Pickle label featuring two originals by Fresno DJ/producer Jason Merle and a pair of Sean Johnston Hardway Bros remixes
More house excellentness on Delusions of Grandeur, this time featuring four cuts from Athenian DJ / producer Lex.
The concept on Too Slow To Disco's Yacht Soul compilation is collecting soul and R&B cover versions that fit that nebulous, slick, smooth, West-coast soft rock "yacht" aesthetic.
If "Deep Inside" was an imagined time and place it could be 3am, summer 1985, on some silk-draped, fern-adorned Ibizan terrace dance floor coming up on some expensive narcotics. A light, classy Balearic-infused floor filler.
Narcotic glitterball dancefloor fodder and a bonus alt-garage-core Bawrut remix from Milan's Rollover DJs on Change My Mind.
This two track EP from Claremont 56 and Mudd has a general breezy aesthetic somewhere between dub disco, soft rock and jazz fusion. Short version: right time, right place, this could work wonders on your dance floor.
