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Essential Roberta tracks on the essential NDATL

NDATL is deep house's most essential label and Roberta's Reaching Out EP is one of its most essential releases this year.
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Ron Trent remixes DJ Steaw’s early track “Holding On”

Coming soon on black wax from Phonogramme: Ron Trent remixes French producer DJ Steaw's catalog track "Holding On."
Hard Drive Library photo, Photo by Florian Schueppel

Hard Drive Library makes music for the shuttered club of your dreams on “Back 2 Rhythm”

The Hamburg duo continue punching up with their heavy second release, HDL No2, out now on black wax.
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Fourier Transform label debuts with Casey Tucker’s “Deep Soul Calm”

Seminal techno artist Casey Tucker has returned to the racks and crates of some of the best DJs in the world, now with Deep Soul Calm on new label Fourier Transform.
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#ListenUp Soul survivor Jamie Lidell teams up with Lorenz Rhode for “Sandpaper”

Eight years after they dropped "Any Kind of Pressure" on Kitsuné, producer Lorenz Rhode and vocalist Jamie Lidell are teaming up again for a new single called "Sandpaper" on Dirt Crew Recordings.
Snips Sunfire Edits

Razor & Cursor: Two Edits from Snips on “Sunfire”

Snips with a pair of 7" edits of some well-known classics on Barbershop.
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Russian Influence Campaign: Baltimore Chop & Lana J Go With The Flow

Baltimore Chop and Lana J (Svetlana Javoronkova) are a Russian producer and vocalist and "Go With The Flow" is a little DJ-friendly masterpiece.
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#ListenUp Heist welcomes Detroit techno luminaries Scan 7

Detroit legends Scan 7's Sooner Than Later EP is an atomic bomb of funk, soul and stubbornly sticky Detroit tracks.
Detroit's Filthiest

Original, not cripsy, all filthy: Detroit’s Filthiest returns on Casa Voyager

A new double EP captures some of Detroit's Filthiest's filthiest beats on wax.
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#ListenUp Pezzner Remixes Rick Wade from the new Timeless Remix EP

And he's joined by Vintage Future and Tresilo (Ben Long, Esteban Adame and Oliver Way) for venerable Belgian label Elypsia.
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Lay-Far joins Lumberjacks In Hell with “Same As It Never Was”

Russian deep house producer Lay-Far makes his LiH debut with a 4 track EP "Same As It Never Was."
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Tom Moulton remixes Michael The Lion & Amy Douglas on Get It On

We're here for this. The legendary Tom Moulton reinvents the 2017 Michael The Lion and Amy Douglas collaboration into a new classic on Soul Clap Records.
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New label launch with Gene Hunt, Ed Nine, G Marcell & Hakim Murphy’s Tales From Chicago

TALES01 is the debut from the Tales vinyl-only label, a V/A featuring Chicago deep house producers Gene Hunt, Ed Nine, G Marcell and Hakim Murphy.
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From the Mind of Byron The Aquarius

Byron The Aquarius lets Jesus grab the wheel for the album-length Apron.
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Specter Releases “Dreamscape” on In Too Deep

Chicago deep house producer and DJ Specter comes correct with a new 3 track EP on wax from In Too Deep.
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Patrice Scott makes a track for our times on The Uprise

Patrice Scott hits a tone of defiance and exhaustion on "The Uprise" that captures the mood of the American street better than any track released in 2020.
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Houses of the holy: Godtripping with Oona Dahl

Is it music or the voice of the spirit molecule? Watergate releases Oona Dahl's "Godtripper" and we have questions.
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Acid joyride: 30303 rides the Interstellar Rhythm

Atlanta's 30303 taps into the interstellar rhythm of the universe that takes the DJ and the listener on a cosmic joyride.
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The Techno Agnostics: Rediscovering the Ecstasy of Phil Western & Off and Gone

The beautiful genre-agnostic experimentation of '90s electronica on Off and Gone's 1996 Sigma Receptor, from Dan Handrabur & the late Phil Western.
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Hot Mix This: Ralphi Rosario remixes Hifi Sean & Paris Grey on “Lost Without U”

New from the vaults of Plastique Recordings: Chicago legend Ralphi Rosario and New York's The Carry Nation remix "Lost Without U" from Hifi Sean and Paris Grey.

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