Review: It's always a pleasant thing to see a new Dansu Discs creation land in the store, with this latest offering from Cheval being another gorgeous arrangement to take in. We begin with the floaty pad lines and catchy vocal chops of 'Afterparty', leading into both the smooth, summer-laden organ harmonies of 'My Love My Kisses' and unpredictable vocal scatters of 'Put Your Faith In Me', again ticking all the boxes for the summer season. From here, we dive into a field of moogy pulses and constantly altering drumscapes in 'Keep Hitting', followed closely by the unorthodox vocal chops and super electronic percussive sweeps of 'Burning Out These Fires', switching up the general mood once again. Finally, 'Bounce With Me' gives us the final leap, doused in minimal techy flavour to round off the project with a classy touchdown.
Review: The joy of the digital download editions of the DJ Kicks series is not so much the included DJ mix - which, of course, is invariably excellent - but the accompanying full-length, DJ friendly tracks gathered by that edition's selector, in this case Elevate Berlin record store owner (and fine producer) Cinthie Christl. Her mostly club-friendly selections are little less than superb, moving from driving, organ-and-bass-rich U.S-style house (Terrence Parker, Niles Cooper, Sandil, her own exclusive 'Organ (DJ Kicks)') and life-affirming piano-house (Ruff Stuff), to deep two-step (Camion Bazar), slamming techno-funk (Anil Aras), dusty techno (Adriyano), deep breakbeat wooziness (Ben Hauke) and deep, dreamy acid jack ('Anna Wall'). In other words, it's a blindingly good selection - and Cinthie's DJ mix is wildly entertaining, too.
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