Groove Democracy At Juno Download

Review: Re-edit specialist Nelue makes the step from Soundcloud fave to full-blown artist with a selection of his best reworks to date. The four tracks featured do a good job showcasing his floor-friendly style, which offers a neat balance between dubbed-out contemporary groovery and original electrofunk and disco. Each of the four tracks is worth a listen - they're all sharply floor-friendly and come with oodles of synth-bass goodness - but it's the dubbed-out, tooled-up version of Instant Funk's "Body Slam" that probably impresses most. That said, the housed-up, delay-laden treatment of Prince's "Sign O'The Times" is pretty tasty, too.

Review: Nelue is a man who knows which side his disco toast is buttered on: the floor-friendly party side. As such he doesn't hold back; Sinead O'Connor's definitive version of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" gets whisked up in a whoosh-filled blender and arrives back in bouncey, housey form. Stevie Wonder gets a furious electro-disco makeover on "Walkers" and elsewhere "The Real Deal" is attitude-heavy electroboogie and "All My Love" is an emotionally stirring anthem with belting female vocals.

Review: Since setting their stall out last year with a series of excellent "versus" EPs featuring producers from different countries, re-edit specialists Groove Democracy have picked up a lot of props. This latest installment - a second face-off between scalpel-fanciers from Spain and the USA - should get plenty of support. There's plenty of high-grade material to devour, from the dubbed-out synth-funk of Tim Zawada and NELUE, to the hustlin' disco-boogie of Alvaro Cabana (check the excellent "Love To Fly" edit) and touchy-feely Balearica of the Beat Broker. Highlights wise, look no further than the sweet, disco-soul shuffle of Gazeebo's "Music" rework and Space Duke's Prince-ish "Let Me Tickle Your Fancy".