Paris Acid City debuts with “Apoji”
Another beautiful anonymous slab of wax from artists unknown to us just waiting to slip into your crate and intimidate all your other records with its fierceness.
Kick’n’snare astrology from Snad on Bootlickerz
Another 12" deep house record that's all about the groove and how to cook with it from Chicago's Snad.
Revisiting Pleasure’s mid-’70s jazz funk classic “Joyous”
Harold Heath on the vinyl reissue of Pleasure's classic 1977 album Joyous, reissued on 180 gram vinyl from Craft Recordings.
New Digital Fidelity makes an auspicious debut on Detroit’s Moods & Grooves
Fred P "reshapes" this four track deep house groover on Mike Grant's legendary Moods & Grooves label.
Moodymann, Carl Craig remix Alexander Robotnick’s seminal “Problemes D’Amour”
The surprise sleeper hit of an illustrious career - Alexander Robotnick was already working on video art, soundtracks and world music when it began to gain a cult audience - "Problemes" has been reissued many times but never quite like this.
Dez Andrés comes alive on Back In My Space
313 Business: For a certain type of DJ and digger a new record from Dez Andrés is a present for your birthday, whenever your birthday happens to fall. "Back In My Space" is Christmas and your birthday all in one.
Four cylinders of sweaty funk’n’jazz on Thierry Tomas’ Tomat EP
This record is so good that record producers are going to hate Thierry Tomas and still make him a bit of coin when they buy two copies of it. Tomat is an album of jazz, funk, smoky lounge and hazy afterparty music, tied together under the theme of "rethinking the soundtracks of Soviet cinema and Polish jazz of the second half of the 20th century."
Earl Jeffers, Gerd Janson and Tatyana Jane remix Marina Trench’s “Imperméable en été”
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.
Sunny summertime jazz from St. David on the Timeless EP
Groovin is responsible for some of Italy's best reissue records, often with a Chicago house focus. Timeless by Italian producer St. David is what it says: two tracks and two remixes that could have been lifted from a Strictly Jaz Unit EP because they sound that good.
Legendary Runway has a story that compels and a bassline that wants to eat you alive
One A pays tribute to iconic model Pat Cleveland, the Girls from 7th Avenue and the birth of voguing on Legendary Runway.
Claremont Editions Vol 3: A warming winter Balearic treat from Claremont 56
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.
Funkyjaws subscribes to the eternal truth that everything goes better with acid
The third release from Funkyjaws' eponymous label passes the hat around and collects a wide variety of tracks from friends, who proceed to fuck the shit out of them with reconstructed 303s.
Session Victim’s “The Intangibles” is a quality 3 tracker on Delusions of Grandeur
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.
Dana Ruh hones deep house to perfection on Smallville 59
Smallville packs a lot of sound in a 12" and Dana Ruh packs a lot of energy in this four track release. Different Places Different Faces offers Ruh's take on modern but timeless deep house.
The Last Love Note from Brooklyn
Though nobody could have guessed at the time, this would be the final record for Love Notes, one of our favorite labels and one of the best to emerge in the last half of the '10s.
Love & Resistance is another unsurprisingly strong EP from Crooked Man
9 minutes and 59 seconds of signature Crooked deep house from Crooked Man on Love & Resistance.
Jerical’s Flesh EP is raw as hell, cultivated Midwest techno
Five tracks of perfectly shaped techno, grown in the hydroponic lead-tainted labs of Rockford, Akron or Flint or certainly from the blueprint sketched on formica countertops in one of those Midwest stations.
#ListenUp The Aquatic People: A Dancer’s Guide
Elegant but stirring deep house from The Aquatic People on A Dancer's Guide, a handbook for deeper living from Paille Records.
Poptimistic house on Bowyer’s Bob’s Your Uncle EP
Bowyer has an upbeat and inventive take on dance music - poptimistic house produced so well the tracks are cut like diamonds, set in a dyed-in-the-Union Jack Britishism on Bob's Your Uncle.
The essential Karizma in 10 tracks
An impossible task but 10 tracks make for a fine vol 1 in an r2 records collection called Karizma Klassics.
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