Review: As you'd expect, the latest volume in Dirt Crew's regular Deep Love compilation series features far more hits than misses. As with previous installments in the long-running series, Deep Love 2017 is mostly made up of previously unheard material from label favourites and like-minded guest producers. Highlights come thick and fast throughout, and include the horn-laden Latin disco-house brilliance of M.ono's "Jamas", the jazzy, Compost style broken beat deepness of Felix Leifur's "Record", the loved-up shuffle of Loz Goddard's impeccable "Now is Where We Are" and a touch of 21st century jazz-funk/deep house fusion by Ponty Mython. Also worth a listen is the contribution from Sheffield beat-smith Thatmanmonkz, who once again delivers a hazy chunk of ultra-deep, soul-flecked dancefloor bliss.
Review: Before plunging headfirst into the world of 4/4 floorfillers under the Bal 5000 guise, Balint Forgacs enjoyed a successful career as a drum & bass producer. There's little sign of that addiction to 180 BPM rhythms and bowel-shaking sub-bass on Bleu Infini, a four-track excursion as warm, breezy and sun-kissed as an afternoon spent baking on an Adriatic beach. Opener "Funky Psychosis" sees the Hungarian pepper a shuffling, tech-tinged nu-disco groove with spacey bleeps, while "Bleu Infini" is a gentle mid-tempo roller built around fluttering chords, Balearic electronics and unfussy drums. Forgacs goes deeper on the slightly foreboding "Il Viaggio Di G Mastomo", before doing a passable impression of cosmic disco sort on the acid-flecked, alien funk shuffle of closer "Jaanipaev Cruisin".
Review: Thanks to two superb EPs, Quartet Series - so-called because each release features a track each from four different artists - has already established itself as a must-check label. Predictably, there's more sonic gold to be found on the imprint's third EP. Tell kicks things off with "Hope Springs Eternal", a woozy, kaleidoscopic, garage-inspired bumper smothered in electronic positivity, before Darko Kustura moves further towards early Floating Points territory with the loose, warm, fluid and spacey "Messier Object". Loz Goddard's fine "Home" successfully melds crispy drum hits, undulating melody lines and rich chords with a bluesy vocal sample, while Bal 5000 impresses with the psychedelic, outer-space madness of "The Acid Is Mine But I Share".
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