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Crooked Man
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Review: French label Citizens Of Vice, self-described purveyors of "Balearic, disco and house for those of a sleazy inclination", bring us a V/A EP whose six tracks defy easy categorisation. For house lovers, though, the best places to start would be Crooked Man's atmospheric 'Illyrian Song' and Lanowa's disco-infused 'Every Move I Make', while elsewhere, 'Sons Of Dub' is one for wonked-out 5am floors, Offshore & Coen explore nu-disco's leftfield fringes, 'Love Of My Life' from Staccatoman brings the 80s/Italo vibes while Mass Density Human's 'Henry's Theme' starts out in drifty Balearic territory then slowly builds into a thunderous percussion workout.
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COV 047
22 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
22 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
Busy P / Various
Cassius - "Go Up" (feat Cat Power & Pharrell Williams - T&T Music Factory remix - Mixed) - (4:05) 126 BPM
Review: Back in 2016, Ed Banger main man and nu-rave scene stalwart Pedro Winter AKA Busy P delivered a particularly excitable DJ mix that was affixed to the front of copies of Mixmag. Now the long-running magazine has decided to make it available as a paid-for download, with a big chunk of sales revenue going to the producers and remixers who feature. It remains a hugely entertaining excursion, with Winter quickly charging between glassy-eyed synth-pop (Breakbot, as remixed by Fatima Yamaha), mangled electro-pop cheeriness (Justice), contemporary French house (Mr Oizo, Cassius and Pharrell Williams), cowbell-sporting acid house revivalism (Playgroup, Kiddy Smile), Middle Eastern headiness (Acid Arab), and the raw Sheffield sleaze of Crooked Man.
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195497 907946
12 Feb 21
Minimal/Tech House
12 Feb 21
Minimal/Tech House
Busy P / Various
Cassius - "Go Up" (feat Cat Power & Pharrell Williams - T&T Music Factory remix - mixed) - (4:05) 126 BPM
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MIXMAG 049JUNO
12 Feb 21
Minimal/Tech House
12 Feb 21
Minimal/Tech House
Various
Review: This is not the first compilation to drop whose sole aim is to raise funds for NHS Chartities Together - R&S Records and Bass Agenda both delivered similarly epic sets - but "Care4Life" may well be the strongest and most diverse. As you'd expect, each one of the 45 tracks is previously unreleased, and the cast list reads like a who's who of dance music culture. Notable highlights include an ultra-deep, saucer-eyed number from Daniel Avery, an unheard rework of the Chemical Brothers' "Catch Me I'm Falling", a superb revision of Harvey's Locussolus project by Kiwi, Matthew Herbert in jazzy broken beat mode, a rare solo outing from Optimo's JD Twitch, a rip-roaring rave workout from Jas Shaw, and thumping peak-time bangers from Dusky, Eats Everything and Patrick Topping.
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CARE 4LIFE
12 Jun 20
Deep House
12 Jun 20
Deep House
Review: While frustratingly overlooked by critics, Sheffield veteran Richard Barratt's debut album under the Crooked Man alias was one of the finest house albums of 2016. Here, DFA has asked a bunch of suitably well-respected producers to give their own spin on tracks from the hot-to-trot set. Ostgut Ton types Barker & Baumecker steal the show with vocal and instrumental remixes of "Fools & Fanatics" that gleefully join the dots between Brown Album-era Orbital, vintage electro, early breakbeat, Chicago acid and piano house. Both sound like anthems in waiting. Elsewhere, DFA stalwart Juan MacLean provides a driving, surprisingly murky rework of nostalgia-driven sing-along "Happiness", while fellow NYC veterans WhateverWhatever give unlikely Northern Soul cover "I'll Be Loving You" a dark, machine-driven, acid-flecked makeover.
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DFA 2550DIG1
10 Mar 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
10 Mar 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Irregular Disco Workers, Scott K. [BOXmusic], Juno Recommends Minimal Tech, Marcus Marr, Jamie Fatneck, NYMA
Review: Given his deep love of bleep techno, it's perhaps unsurprising that JD Twitch is keen on the post-bleep house wonkiness of former Sweet Exorcist man DJ Parrot's Crooked Man project. Here he gives him a fully justified release on Optimo Trax with which to do his thing. Those familiar with Crooked Man's previous output will feel right at home. "Undigitize Me" is a little rougher around the edges than their previous work, but retains the usual sleaziness (thanks to some odd vocals, warped bass and hypnotic rhythms). "Skink" is, if anything, even wilder and wonkier, with a real intense late night swing. Best of all, though, is the heads-down, stripped-back pulse of "Try Me", a 12-minute exercise in druggy dancefloor dynamics with superb vocals from Pete Simpson.
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OT 010
06 Oct 14
Minimal/Tech House
06 Oct 14
Minimal/Tech House
