Harold Heath
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The third edition of Claremont 56's compilation series gathers low-tempo high-temperature grooves via label rarities, unreleased versions and brand new music too.
When you need a neat deep house jam with an aesthetic that is somehow both devotional and soulful yet feels taut and restrained, then drop this.
9 minutes and 59 seconds of signature Crooked deep house from Crooked Man on Love & Resistance.
Different shades of deep house on the 2nd album from Tour-Maubourg, thematically based around the ideas of noise and silence.
Bags of potential big tune-ness on this five track EP from Santiago Salazar on Yaxteq.
"Nightshift" and "Don't Look Down" are a pair of fresh dance floor tunes from More Amour (Artwork and musician Jon Solo) on the first release for their new label Hi Quality Records Inc.
Eight tracks of different shades of deep house mark Aterral Records' second anniversary compilation.
Real Feel Records kicks off with a gorgeous 4 track EP from Toribio, featuring DJ Spinna on the remix.
Riverfront is Reynolds' third release on Osunlade's Yoruba label and comes with a Jon Dixon remix on the back.
Filled with surprising twists and tasty juxtapositions, Theo Parrish's DJ Kicks is one of the strongest DJ mixes I've heard this year.
Hazy, heavy, house music delivered with a light touch on Byron's first solo EP from Heist.
Heavy duty, funky basslines, stripped, taut house beats, a whiff of that cool, detached Detroit musical sensibility and a helping of Chicago jack. It's like the best of '90s-style tech house but re-tooled for the 21st century.
Low frequency oscillations abound on these Greg Foat remix packages from Foundation Music.
UK producer, DJ and live performer Paddy Thorne's Lost Cause Pt. 2 is an album of quality techno-tinged electro and, without wishing to labour the point, electro-tinged techno.
Sub-120 BPM disco-ish, deepish house on Cloud 9, made by Lanowa and released with love by Citizens of Vice.
Four tracks of raw and real deep house from Kyle Hall on Good Hado from Forget The Clock.
Nico Lahs is in top form on this EP of 4 new tracks on black wax from the unfathomably great Selections label.
Medlar delivers highly usable & highly original UK house from Freerange's sister label Delusions of Grandeur.
Lady Blackbird and Crooked Man, much like Rick Sanchez’s Gotron Ferrets, combine to create a (dance floor) monster.
A "low-paced, unhurried, mucky disco-Rhodes jam": Jimpster turns in a pair on superb remixes on Retromigration's wewillalwaysbealovesong release Secret of a Pimp EP.
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