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.
Photonz makes 12 house cuts about nothing
Photonz drops an album of spares, rares and sketches as a yummy bandcamp only release for diggers and DJs seeking ultra deep cuts.
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.
#ListenUp DJ Deano DNA: C’mon
DJ Deano DNA breaks a piece off his stash on "C'mon," a single from his prolific Bumpin' Underground
Zero atmosphere stomp on Janeret’s “Quasar” from Fuse
If Spotify were smart enough to have a whole radio station of tracks that sound like Janeret I'd fork over money to their algorithm like a drunk bachelorette tipping the DJ for playing "Call Me Maybe."
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."
Premiere: Ilana Ariella & Shmoo – Go On Do It [Cheap Talk]
5 Mag is thrilled to share "Go On Do It" by Ilana Ariella & Shmoo, the debut release from a new Chicago indie label called Cheap Talk
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.
Classic: Locked On reissues Steve Gurley’s remix of UKG classic “Hyperfunk”
If there was a Strictly Rhythm of UK Garage (nevermind Strictly's own pre-UKG and UKG-adjacent output), it was probably the UKG clearinghouse known as Locked On. You can play classic sets with nothing but Locked On releases, from Tuff Jam to Dem 2 to Danny J Lewis to Todd Edwards and of course Zed Bias' "Neighbourhood."
Local Talk makes a lovely tribute to Soulphiction on “Live @ Bix”
Live @ Bix is lead by a live version of "Bizzness" recorded by Soulphiction and Netzer in 2018 - bass that jumps out of the mix like a boogeyman and chunky guitar makes this maybe an even more essential version than the extremely well-regarded original.
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.
Classy deep house from S. Hoellermann on “Pressure”
Classy deep house from S. Hoellermann gets a cosmetic makeover for the '90s and, weirdly, the '20s too.
Felipe Gordon & Bengoa remix Lex’s bass-loving groover “Fast Jags”
Greek producer Lex fell in love with the bass and it's a love that he consummates in public with the bass-loving groove of "Fast Jags," a new single on B2 Recordings.
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.
Dub Guy & Lewo Chyba – ARK009 / Fly EP
Footwork, ghetto tech, speedy dragsters, sirens, a little filthy 2step smeared across the crust and an MC spitting verses about nitrous. It's a raver's Christmas wishlist and it's a bass DJ's Christmas miracle
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.
Henna Onna releases the gorgeous “Midori no Basho”
Making her debut with a two track deep house EP on Closer To Truth.
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