Kirik & Imbue collaborate on the impossibly bright On Distance
From Kherson, Ukraine comes one of the most extraordinarily bright and even outright sunny EPs hitting the racks this year.
Triton: Five point five minutes of neon garage from Lone
Out of the blue, Lone dropped a track just as the year was winding down and "Triton" may make all of the bullshit of 2023 worth it.
GRTMN: Rephlex drops a deep & slinky 3 track EP on Closer To Truth
Closer To Truth has a knack for tapping into a rich vein of young producers and giving them a spotlight and with output like this they rarely disappoint.
Without You: Sparkling Athenian house from Lex on Delusions of Grandeur
More house excellentness on Delusions of Grandeur, this time featuring four cuts from Athenian DJ / producer Lex.
Sailing Away: Yacht Soul – The Cover Versions 2
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.
Marli debuts on Unknown To The Unknown with the deep, hazy grooves of “Change of Seasons”
A remarkable label debut for Marli, who has been producing for a few years but emerges with a nearly pitch-perfect release on Unknown To The Unknown.
Decoder returns to Molecular with the techno tribalism of XX 15
For people who know what the term "Midwest Techno" means and love what it sounds like, Decoder has that whole aesthetic on lock on XX 15 from Molecular Recordings.
Cleveland’s Lolo Knows makes a lovely debut on “Say Ya Love”
DJ Lolo Knows, for long a fixture in the Midwest scene, makes her debut on the Import Tracks label with an assist from Jordan Martinez.
Fata Morgana: live, hallucinatory techno from Vasco Ispirian
The sound of Fata Morgana I is stripped down, raw, playing out how you'd hear music in a live PA - which is how Vasco Ispirian perfected this style of producing techno.
Hold On: Citizens of Vice returns with Dutch duo Offshore & Coen
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.
Azzurro: Sondrio drops one of the finest deep house EPs of the year
"Azzurro" is blissful deep house of the sort that you have to knock around for awhile before you can make it.
Luscious deep house on June Jazzin’s NDATL debut
Kai Alce's NDATL introduces us to the smoky, warm sounds of South African producer June Jazzin on his self-titled label debut.
John Tejada announces The Monitors rerelease with Silent Servant
The secret project originally dropped on vinyl in 2011 and the rerelease was in the works for a few weeks prior to Silent Servant's death.
Change My Mind: Space Disco & Italo-Balearica from Rollover DJs
Narcotic glitterball dancefloor fodder and a bonus alt-garage-core Bawrut remix from Milan's Rollover DJs on Change My Mind.
Contrast Stitch: Garage vibes and fat fucking bass from Boink
We're as thrilled as you are to learn that there is finally a producer who goes by the name "Boink."
Slide: Pittsburgh Track Authority & Brandon Markell Holmes with a gorgeously deep vocal house cut
Pittsburgh Track Authority wave the flag for their hometown with a polished but lively single featuring vocalist Brandon Markell Holmes.
“Special Edition” caps a landmark 2023 for Toronto’s Selections
Lea Lisa, Black Loops, Dan Only, Javonntte and more on black wax from Toronto's excellent Selections label.
Straight Up No Chaser: deep house at its finest from Delano Smith & Norm Talley
Double twelve inch in which two of the greatest deep house producers in Detroit (and that means in the world) drop some of their dopest tracks.
“What Does It Do?” Deep jazz from Hugo LX
Hugo LX continues to build a discography of classic-sounding but forward-looking deep house releases, seriously sophisticated with an artistry or cleverness that is constantly bumping up against the bin lid of what deep house is supposed to, in good taste, allow.
“In The Garden of Mindfulness” is stately 70 bpm Balearica from Mudd
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.
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Premiere: Lovebirds ft. Stee Downes: Want You In My Soul (Schmoov! Extended Remix) [Winding Road Records]
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the stellar and absolutely classic "Want You In My Soul" from Lovebirds and Stee Downes, Winding Road Records releases a new package of remixes by Knee Deep, Atjazz, Schmoov! and Lovebirds.
