Giant Cuts At Juno Download

Review: A real 'pick and mix' selection of re-edits and mash-ups here from newcomers Deadly Sins on the Giant Cuts Digital imprint. There's a touch of straight-up disco in the shape of "Keep It Hot", a neatly building, horn-heavy rework that never gets too loopy. Marvin Gaye's "A Funky Space Reincarnation" gets handily cut down on "Space Funk", while Metro Area and Soulsonic Force clash on the ever-so-cheeky mash-up "Metro Electro". The stand-out cut, though, is "Can't Stop", a smokin' Italo disco jam that boasts some particularly sweet electric piano riffage - think Bobby O fused with Shoom style piano house.

Review: Here we have another EP of smooth disco re-edits. "Nothing Beats The Music" is a classic Studio 54-era joint with tight funk guitar, big, funky bass and blissful chimes and female vocals. Only the slightest tweaks have been made to embellish this classy gem. "Can You Feel It" is an eye brow-raising version of Phil Collin's austere classic, In The Air At Night, now given a slow, Balearic stomp which surprisingly works! "Fever" is beautiful, dreamy cosmic disco with a melancholic vocal and "Movin, Don't Stop" is the kind of pulsating high energy stuff that soundtracked Stefanie Powers and Robert Wagner in TV's Hart To Hart!

Review: It's been a while since we've heard from notorious North London party-starter Deadly Sins. Here he returns to his Original Cuts imprint with an EP of floor-friendly, sample-heavy party-starters. There's plenty for disco-minded house DJs to enjoy, from the heavy electrofunk-meets-disco thump of "Keep Movin (DS Straight Ahead Mix)" and Rocco Raimundo-ish '80s soul slickness of "Out In The Night", to the filter-heavy, electric piano vibes of "So Delicious" and stomping "Satisfied". Opener "The Thrill", with its distinctive jazz-funk flute loop, is also worthy of consideration. Good stuff, all told.

Review: Producer, DJ and, according to Twitter, coffee enthusiast Raw Sugar turns in an impressive three track missive via Giant Cuts. The soulful tones of "What If We Make It" serves as a pleasing appetiser for the title track, which leans on an oft used Marvin Gaye sample but dips it in Sugar's own production style. The more stripped back, Chicago-indebted dub of "Eins Zwei Disco" rounds off a solid and diverse EP.