Lester Fitzpatrick: Sick
Nothing subtle here: a nine track album released without much fanfare from a guy that makes techno you wish the mainstage gang with corny DJ names still did. DJ Temporal Lobe and DJ Paralegal...
Hakim Murphy: The Chocolate Dice EP
D3 Elements has built a hell of a roster in the last three years: Hakim Murphy's The Chocolate Dice rubs shoulders with tracks from Mike Clark, Terrence Parker, Dan Curtin, D-Knox and two records...
Gene Farris Is On 100
Gene Farris is one of the Chicago mainstays that proves that hard work and the inability to stay still will reward you to no end. His Farris Wheel Recordings just unveiled its 100th release,...
Kool Vibe: Basics
Kool Vibe's last four records have been called House Trax, The Black & White Project (parts 1 and 2) and now Basics. You may notice a pattern emerging, aside from the gorgeous chords and...
Jeremy Underground Mixes My Love Is Underground II
One's flagging interest in conventional compilations creeps down to zero in light of some outstanding collections curated by Joey Negro and Jeremy Underground. My Love Is Underground II nicks its name from Jeremy's top...
Deep88’s The Black Album
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In a world where everything seems to be "aspirational," it's so refreshing when you stumble upon something that has no ambitions to be anything other than what it...
Freaks: Let’s Do It Again Part 2
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Last fall Luke Solomon and Justin Harris relaunched their "fuck-the-mainstream-house-trends" record label, Music for Freaks. The back catalog now at your digital finger tips is coupled with new...
thatmanmonkz: Columbusing LP
Maybe it was the artwork or the influences or just a random connection made inside my brain but something about thatmanmonkz has always brought to mind an older, grimmer Britain - one of unwashed...
Demarkus Lewis: Catch The Light featuring Martha Wash
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Demarkus Lewis is a man that has been entrenched deep into music for the last forty years, and it's evident in all of his one hundred-plus singles and...
Ralf GUM: Love Core
The end of a long winter is in sight, with the first green shoots of spring showing up in the form of "Love Core," a charismatic and simple Soulful House gem from Ralf GUM...
Closer To Truth: Chapter Two
Various Artists strikes again with an EP that's more of a label sampler and nearly as long as an album from the dynamic new label Closer To Truth. Launched with a series of free...
Lay-Far: How I Communicate
Cloudy skies be damned! "How I Communicate" is a delicious disco slice of heaven guaranteed to perk up your atmosphere on even the gloomiest of days. Whether you like your disco on...
Franck Roger: Home Invasion 10
Franck Roger has retreated so far from the niceties of commerce that it doesn't even feel like splitting his records up into individual EPs is quite proper any longer.
This is the landmark tenth...
Hiroshi Watanabe: Multiverse
There's always been a distinct spiritual side to Hiroshi Watanabe's records. Some of them - I'm thinking distinctively of "Soul Traveler" and the rest of "Sync Positive" here - sound less like records made...
Four Walls: Streets EP
There's a lot to love right here, as three heroes of the underground throw lots together for a surprisingly smooth three track EP.
Four Walls is Mikhail Shvaikousky of Belarus, who makes music like...
Chrissy: Join Me
I have this record with Frankie Knuckles on tape talking about how you have to listen to everything, without having to like all of it, in order to better understand where you're going with...
Ed Nine: Timeless
Ed Nine first perked up my ears with a DJ's DJ, sick as hell mix, right here on our website. Then in 2014 I started getting his tracks in my box from various labels...
Myles Serge: Syntax Error
The Transitional Man, Myles Sergé unveils an eclectic three track, 28 minute EP for Dan Curtin's highly buyonsightworthy label, Metamorphic Recordings. Genre namechecks are a source of frustration for people these days, and I'm...
Remixed with Love By Joey Negro Vol 2
Behold: a twenty track double LP/double CD with a tracklist that reads like one of DEL's Foundations columns. From one of the most eclectic and vast record collections in the world, disco archaeologist Joey...
Louie Vega: Louie Vega Starring… XXVIII
Louie Vega wanted to see all his friends at once. Here they are, an unexpected but pleasant surprise in this double CD released and distributed by Vega Records.
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