Review: Aparel Music has come up with a novel way to mark its 13th birthday - a series of 13-track comps, each boasting a mix of recent highlights and deep cuts, tailor-made for a handful of download and streaming sites. So, what can you expect from Junodownload's exclusive Apparel Music collection? In short, a sublime mixture of dreamy, dub-wise, slow-motion deepness (Roy Giles remixing Ahautzab), tactile and immersive deep house goodness (Eddie Shkiper, Desos), colourful fare rich in jazzy instrumentation (Four Walls' superb 'Hello Underground'), jazz-funk-flavoured nu-disco (Polar Lights) and high-grade peak-time fare (a typically dusty and warming slab of excellence from the legendary Delano Smith).
Review: Man like Delano Smith has been turning out fulsome house grooves for time. The US legend has a direct link to the origins of the genre but always brings his own hypnotic, loopy style. This release finds a host of modern mainstays adding their own spin to Smith's originals. Dettmann goes with a heavy, grainy, basement techno roller, while Makam layers in icy dub frequencies and weighty bottom ends. Oracy and Convextion's interpretations offer further late night dub explorations of the highest order.
Review: A timely reissue of an eternal Detroit house classic, and one remastered by Yossi Amoyal and recut at MMM Berlin at that. Carl Craig and the late Mike Huckaby (RIP) remix of Delano Smith, with Craig taking on 'Midnight Hours' with dreamy synths and light, bouncy grooves blazing and some subtly dubby effects up his sleeve, and Huckaby's version of 'What I Do' typified by a cute keyboard motif and some crunchy, crunchy snares. Another tour de force from Sushitech.
Review: Should you happen to need a 27-minute snapshot of where house music is "at" in August 2019, this V/A offering from Jovonn's Body N Deep label would be a fine place to start. Franck Roger marries tuff, techy beats to soulful female vocal samples on 'Get Ready', Sean McCabe brings crisp beats, jazzy Hammonds and a killer 90s-style M1 line on the strutty 'Freak It', Delano Smith's 'Moon Dance' has a more traditional soulful house feel (and owes a big debt to Akabu classic 'Ride The Storm') and finally Monocue gets techy, tribal and a little bit Afro on 'Borrowed Days'. Classy stuff all round.
Motor City Drum Ensemble - "Raw Cuts" (Marcellus Pittman remix) - (7:32) 120 BPM
Burning Bridges - "System" - (6:59) 122 BPM
Ken Young - "Horney Chords" - (7:25) 124 BPM
Sawlin - "Wired Evening" - (6:46) 120 BPM
Chicola - "Sidechain Memory" - (7:28) 120 BPM
Burning Bridges - "Low Down" - (6:16) 124 BPM
Stacey Pullen - "Detroit Love Vol 1" (continuous DJ mix) - (1:14:03) 124 BPM
Review: Recently Planet E founder Carl Craig joined forces with Studio K7 to launch Detroit Love, a new label that takes its name from the techno veteran's touring party. To kick things off, Craig asked Motor City veteran Stacey Pullen to lay down a mix that encapsulated the Detroit spirit. In practice, that means a Michigan-heavy tracklist, with rolling, futurist techno, deep house and tech-tinged house cuts from the likes of Craig Sherrad, Delano Smith, Burning Bridges, Patrice Scott and Gary Martin being joined by similarly-minded cuts from international artists (see Soulphiction's fine opening track and Marcellus Pittman's legendary remix of Motor City Drum Ensemble's "Raw Cuts"). Pullen plays around with tempo and intensity throughout, but it's the inherent rawness and sci-fi feel of Detroit music that shines through.
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