Review: Given their respective track records - both have been serving up quality deep house for decades - you'd expect this hook up between Atjazz and Fred Everything to be high quality. It is, of course, with the original mix of 'Stay a Little While' offering a winning blend of smooth, spacey synths, delay-laden keys, Motor City-inspired electronics, undulating bass, unfussy beats and stirring, life-affirming pads. The accompanying 'Mechant Dub' is naturally a little more spaced out, with the pair prioritising the groove, bassline and mind-mangling electronics. It's a proper 4AM number, tailor-made for dark rooms and dry ice-filled dancefloors.
Review: A storming release from a pair of deep house and nu-jazz dons who work wonders together on the "Sleep No Sweat" single. British producer Atjazz and New Zealand born Mark De Clive Lowe bring their styles together over a series of mixes, with the original club mix fusing a deep house groove with a mystical and bleary-eyed series of jazzy sound and sequences. It all hangs together on a knife edge, tensely building up to the addition of some softly played horns which in true jazz style usher in a pretty devastating key change. A perfect crossover for jazzers and deep house heads, this special release will definitely invigorate fans of either genre no end.
MDCL's Jazz Rub mix focuses less on the beat and more on the dazzling set of keys and atmospheric pads that fill out the track, making it sound like an unheard track from