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Review: Londoner Chip Chabralle describes his style as "chill house" and "tech disco". While that may sound like hyperbole, they're actually fairly apt descriptions for his ear-pleasing blends of deep house, nu-disco, electronica and retro-futurist grooves. "All That She's Been Through", for example, layers glistening electronic melodies, sharp synth-strings and tumbling chords over a woozy, Italo-influenced nu-disco groove, while "0800 CHIP" sounds like a downtenpo, nu-disco-era take on classic US garage. Then there's "Back Up", a decidedly downtempo bumper built around warped electronic bass and spooky piano riffs.

Review: Dean Sunshine Smith's Sunshine Reworks series certainly delivers on its promise, offering illicit, floor-friendly re-interpretations of soul cuts that don't so much glisten as blind with their inherent summeryness. Combining elements of classic soulful house, Revenge-ish slo-mo groovery and Terje/Idjuts style dubbed-out disco production, Sunshine Reworks offer some orange-tinted relief from depressing winter weather. Both "Oh Honey" and "Love Odyssey" tick all the right boxes, striking an impressive balance between letting the vocals breathe and impressing the dancefloor. The results are sunnier than a Balearic summer and twice as sultry.