Harold Heath

Harold Heath on DJ Disciple's inside look at "the rise, the fall and rebirth of house music in New York City"

One half of '90s R&B duo Charles & Eddie, Eddie Chacon's Sundown album is a superb affair, released earlier this year on Stones Throw.

An accomplished and varied collection of house, synth-pop and Balearic, thematically based around the country and city landscapes of Teeside UK where Sally Rogers grew up and spent lockdown.

French DJ and Producer Laroye's second Freerange EP give you four tracks of melodic underground house.

Four finely-wrought, deep house cuts along with a distinctly un-house, gorgeous slow-paced piano and sax soul-jazz excursion on Retromigration's Dead Tech EP for LYAM.

Byron The Aquarius, Javonntte, Garrett David, Gari Romalis and more appear on a double 12 inch marking Spanish label Mate Records' 5th anniversary, a multi-flavoured collection of reliable, and reliably underground, deep house.

A collaborative album from techno musician David Moufang (Move D) and musician/composer Jordan Czamanski (Jordan GCZ), Recreational Kraut uses a pretty lean sonic palette of Fender Rhodes, synths and fretless bass on an album in Amsterdam over a few days in 2018 and '19.

The first album from UK producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jim Baron (aka Ron Basejam, aka Crazy P co-founder) under his JIM persona sounds to this writer like a triumph.

Norm Talley's vinyl-only label continues its march through the racks with another killer V/A featuring real house music for working DJs.

Holland's Nachtbraker's latest release on his self-titled label delivers four high-paced and futuristic deep house tunes on Dondoni.

Retromigration drops Straight Foxin' for Wolf Music, an organic-sounding, musically rich album full of jazz-flavoured club and club-adjacent jams.

Steve Mill's God Given EP is four track, smooth, slightly-disco-ish deep house affair, featuring spoken word vocals from Bongani Mehlomakhulu on Dirt Crew Recordings.

With little more than some gentle filter tweaks, you get seven minutes of relentless glitterball disco-tech. On Rhythm and Truth, 6th Borough Project drop a quality example of how to do loop-filter house well.

Rich, thick, dreamy, hazy house music, full of atmosphere from Liverpool artist Petals In Sound and Dirt Crew Recordings.

Space-jazz-funk for the dance floor as cohort of incredible remixers give a new spin to Cody Currie's 2022 album track "Money" on Toy Tonics.

Mainstream Disco Funk gathers together twelve disco/funk tracks from between '74 and '76, a particularly fertile moment in R&B history as funk and soul artists, producers and musicians either adopted or adapted the disco innovations of labels like Philadelphia International Records. Most of the tunes contained here are located right in that disco-funk / funky-disco sweet spot, where intricate-yet-loose funk rhythms melded with cosmopolitan sweeping orchestration and the emergence of that insistent 4/4 disco pulse.

Unpretentious, spacey, boogie-down disco jams from Artwork & Jon Solo's new More Amour project.

Nachtbraker's tracks are often a subtle hybrid of elements of deep house and classic Detroit techno with echoes of '90s Dutch house, all filtered through a highly detailed sound design process. So it is here with four tracks of futurist hybrid 4/4 on Capichone.

Harold Heath on the vinyl reissue of Pleasure's classic 1977 album Joyous, reissued on 180 gram vinyl from Craft Recordings.

Marina Trench's Sweet State label kicked off 2023 with a solid EP and this remix EP based on it, featuring Gerd Janson, Earl Jeffers and Tatyana Jane.