Chicago House Music Festival 2026

Harold Heath

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Harold is a music journalist, DJ, producer, music-tech tutor and all round smartass.
Super high quality package from Bradley Zero's Rhythm Section featuring four tracks from Brooklyn duo musclecars with Toribio and Roland Clark on vocals hovering on the organic, jazz-ish end of the house spectrum.
Absolute dancefloor fire: Harry Romero's remix and dub of Radio Slave and Kameelah Waheed's "All Rize" from Rekids.
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, including Ron Trent's Lift Off, an album a decade in the making and released on Rush Hour.
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, including Night Blooming Cereus by Maurice Fulton (as "Boof").
Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025's best electronic music albums, starting with French artist rRoxymore’s "Juggling Dualities."
The fifth installment of the "La Torre Ibiza" compilation series continues to document the Balearic sounds championed at Hostel La Torre, lovingly selected and carefully programmed by DJ Pete Gooding and DJ/producer Mark Barrott
From the excellent Vicious Charm label comes a typically bold musical statement from Richard "DJ Parrot" Barratt aka Crooked Man in the form of a mid-tempo dark, distorted, deep house remake of disco classic "Don't Leave Me This Way."
Black Logic is producer Alex Arnout's live deep house band, with Arnout's beats and electronics backed with live instrumentation (bass, guitar, sax) and a selection of vocalists, and Breathe More is his first release on Music For Freaks.
If you're a soul purist and you want to walk away now I'd understand; but I'm every bit as much of a soul music snob as you and I've got to say, these remakes do a pretty good job of updating things.
The lead track from Kirk Degiorgio's Elate EP on Cyphon is a proper dancefloor record, with the low-end funk for your body and that cerebral dreaminess to transport your mind.
Spencer Parker makes a quality return to Rekids on Better Days featuring Tee Amara and an utterly danceable Radio Slave remix.
Covering the years before his breakthrough into the mainstream, Moby's witty, funny and provocative Porcelain is one of music's best memoirs.
I'm a big fan of Franck Rogers' crispy, club-friendly house grooves and he's done a good job here with this collaboration with NYC house vocalist Arnold Jarvis, the pads and drums of which have a distinctly '90s house old-school flavour.
A quality mid-tempo room-lifter on Rare Wiri finds Manolo's sophisto-cosmic-disco workout "Amalfi Drive" remixed by Manuel Costela.
The third installment of "Down To The Sea and Back" collects a set of obscure tunes that are united only by their rarity and by whatever indescribable, indefinable quality qualifies them as "Balearic."
There's a comedy show in the UK called Peep Show, and at some point in season one, a character in an electronic music duo writes a bassline so good that he apparently couldn't turn it off. This is one of those.
Nu Northern Soul drops a mini-album of "re-interpretations" of fusion maestro Chick Corea tracks by DJ Maarten Goetheer featuring Thai power-house drummer Pong Nakornchai.
The two volumes of this compilation chart yet another chapter in the evolution of dance music, another set of DJs and producers who lurked in the background innovating their own little niche - in this case, tech house.
Smooth soft-focus jazz-tinged disco and a tasty bruk-ish Inkswell remix make up this package from DJ/producer Ed Temple.
25 years after its debut Techno Rebels still shines as a love letter to techno and the city of Detroit where it was born.

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