Detroit Swindle: 64 Ways Remixes from Dirt Crew
I told you to wait for the remixes didn't I? Dirt Crew really took the perfect amount of time to let Boxed Out simmer. Since my last review, my friends and I have all...
Alinka Says You’re Basic
There are at least a few people in this thing determined to Keep House Music Weird. Chicago's Alinka is one of them. She debuts an EP for Get Up that is destined to become...
David Marston Makes Beautiful Music on Jamaicalia from Soul Clap
This took me four or five spins to get it. I'm not sure why. But in the end, I didn't just figure it out, but came to realize that I like every track on...
Alex Agore’s I Got Rhythm EP (KV Records)
I feel like you can take anything I've ever written about any Alex Agore record and apply it to any other. That's not to say they're interchangeable. It's because of a level of quality...
Johnny Fiasco’s YOLO: No Longer Carpe Diem for Stupid People
Comedian Jack Black famously Tweeted: "I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people." Summoning up images of 'selfies' snapped in soulless chain bars and at EDM festivals, YOLO has taken...
Dance Mania Revival Traxx EP from Strut
I'm still counting out the loot from Record Store Day, and among the treasures is this peculiar re-issue of two in-demand Dance Mania tracks, plus a "lost" Parris Mitchell track that time forgot, re-issued...
Caswell James’ Magnificent Slab of Soul
If you're a soulful DJ, I cannot imagine any reason why you wouldn't lead off every set you play for the next three months with "Corazon Angustiado", the title track of Caswell James' magnificent...
Gene Hunt is Living In A Room (Hardmoon London)
Out of all of the old school producers who still have a credible current body of work, nobody can surprise you like Gene Hunt. You think he's fallen into a groove but he'll bounce...
Zo! ft Erro and Phonte: We Are On The Move (Joey Negro Revival Mix)
I've long since abandoned any debates regarding the sync button vs. beatmatching because it's utterly pointless. However, if there's any point that can safely be hammered home and which everyone (except idiots) can agree...
Heart 2 Heart’s Shigan Gets Remixed on Balance Music
Chez Damier is a man who requires no introduction from us, so when he announces a new project, any self-respecting deep house lover should stop whatever they're doing and pay attention (unless what they're...
Innerspace Halflife: Inspired By The Stars, Made In Chicago
Space, in the words of minimalist composer Terry Riley, is "surely the realm of dreams and imagination," the "feeding ground for poets and musicians". Ike Release and Hakim Murphy have created a record inspired...
It’s Robert Hood’s World and We’re Just Living In It
So this is how it went: Robert Hood returned to Movement in May, dropped the remixes of the best track on the debut Floorplan album, Paradise, the week of, and then backslapped the masses...
Lee Mills – Hands Together (Fresh Meat Records)
I can mark time by Fresh Meat's records. I've written more about this label than any other, and the last five or six years has seen the beginning and end of relationships, friendships, personal...
Chez Damier, Eddie Leader and Tomson Team Up for I Am With You
Hudd is ten years into this, and Eddie Leader really isn't the same guy that he was at the start. I don't know if that applies to him personally, but as an artist and...
Constant State Debuts with Al Gobi’s Pueblo Grande
Constant State was launched with a series of artistic yet vaguely unnerving videos that reminded me of some of the creepy shit that you can find scraping the sides of YouTube with random search...
Pittsburgh Track Authority’s Enter The Machine Age
It was somewhere between the second and third track on Pittsburgh Track Authority's debut LP that I realized something extraordinary was happening. In less than 15 minutes, Enter The Machine Age had shifted adeptly...
The Devil’s Music: Who Is William Onyeabor?
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Luaka Bop
In the six months since Luaka Bop's reissue album Who Is William Onyeabor? was released, the obscure, reclusive Nigerian funk and disco musician has been acclaimed...
Vintage Robotnicks: Alexander Robotnick’s Early Synth Classics
Not all of your heroes died young and left a corpse handsome enough to sell t-shirts twenty years later. Some of your heroes just had bills to pay.
Hardly anyone stays on top in...
Stereogamous and Shaun J Wright’s Sweat – Tribal
I feel bad for this, for adding what's become Shaun J. Wright's epithet - "of Hercules & Love Affair" - every time I say his name. Shaun has done more than enough - as...
Blunt Instruments’ Hold Back EP on Dungeon Meat
This is the work of some bad motherfuckers right here.
Let's get the introductions out of the way. Brawther doesn't need one if you've been reading what I've been writing. Together with Jeremy UndergroundParis from...
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Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle’s “Your Love” to National Recording Registry
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