Hotbox At Juno Download

Review: Denver, Colorado-based Ejay Toledo has provided slo-mo house and disco lovers with some notable jams in recent times, with releases on Editorial, Audio Parallax and Aspect Audio. Here he returns to Gazeebo International with an album's worth of atmospheric, head-nodding grooves. There's much to admire, from the sparse, West Coast deep house of "Burning" (also available in cosy Heion remix form) and dubby disco escapism of "Fever", to the old skool US house bump of "Moog Moods" and Rurals-ish "InLove". There's a lovely bonus in the shape of a typically deep and groovy, synth-laden rework of "InLove" from In The Woods regular Joseph Terruel, too.

Review: Having provided digital DJs with all manner of cut-and-paste escapades over the past couple of years, the Gazeebo label is moving towards original production. This two-tracker from Hotbox lies somewhere between the two schools of thought. On one hand, it bears all the hallmarks of the sample-heavy, slo-mo disco edit sound (think Nicholas, Matthew Kyle, Andy Ash etc). On the other, both tracks are clearly original deep house productions. However you class "Pitched Down Bound", the material is pretty strong - most notably the smoky, head-nodding delights of "Marvin's Gangster Groove". Certainly, it's the best thing Gazeebo has released for years.