Harold Heath
Harold is a music journalist, DJ, producer, music-tech tutor and all round smartass.
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.
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.
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