Review: Between 1995 and 2002, Luke Solomon and the late Kenny Hawkes held a Wednesday night residency at Bar Rumba in London's West End. This was Space, and this collection pays tribute to the party and the records that rocked the dancefloor. Fittingly, it starts with Hawkes' 'Dance For Me', a nine-minute house bumper blessed with warped speed garage bass, and ends with a Solomon co-production, Freaks' trippy deep house jam 'Flywithme (Part 1)'; in between, you'll find such peak-time delights as Jedi Knights' sweaty, loose-limbed breakbeat house blast 'The Knock (Big Knockers)', the organ-rich, Sound Factory-style brilliance of 'Surrender Yourself (Ballroom Mix)' by The Daou, the pots-and-pans percussion insanity of Cajmere remixing Armando ('The Future'), and a smattering of classics (Ten City, killer remixes from MAW and Mood II Swing).
Review: Following up some fantastic releases by the likes of Lord Leopard, Andres Campo and Mele, Eats Everything's label returns with its next installment. Here, legendary British deep house duo Luke Solomon (Classic) & Justin Harris (Music For Freaks) aka Freaks return, teaming up here with Windy City legend Diz Washington AKA 012 (Vizual Records) for the deep and boompty late night jam "Mr Computer Man". Philadelphian legend and Ovum Records boss Josh Wink steps into deliver an exhilarating remix. His rendition forgoes the raw and dusty aesthetic, for something more high-tech on this strobe-lit 303 acid epic.
Review: What better way to celebrate a decade in business than by getting Chicago deep house legend Larry Heard to select and mix a double-disc compilation of label highlights? Hats off, then, to Rebirth, who managed to persuade Mr Fingers himself to deliver his first commercially available DJ mix. As you'd expect from both label and DJ, it's a wonderfully atmospheric and melodious affair, with Heard selecting and blending emotion-rich tracks and mixes from Chromatic Filters, Bocca Grande, NuFrequency, Tevo Howard, Motor City Drum Ensemble and James Teej. The first disc, in which Heard races through 28 tracks in just over 70 minutes, is particularly memorable.
Review: Whatever you think about Hot Creations - and opinions are, of course, divided - you can't deny that Jamie Jones and Lee Foss's label has been a game-changer. Their combination of contemporary house grooves with classic house, disco, boogie and garage influences now dominates dancefloors the world over. This label retrospective tells the story of their runaway success between 2011 and 2012, offering up three hours of unmixed floorfillers from the likes of Waifs & Strays, Miguel Campbell, Burnski, PBR Streetgang, Jamie Jones and Lee Foss, plus a smattering of lesser-known gems. For those who missed the label's formative years, there's also a tasty bonus mix of early material from Russ Yallop.
Review: Freaks, the tech-funk duo made up of Luke Solomon and Justin Harris, follow on from their recent retrospective collection with this equally vital remix set. Having had the likes of Derrick Carter, Doc Martin, Rob Mello, DJ Q and Mark Farina take apart their tunes over the years, you can tell the standard of quality of on offer here - just listen to Swag's epic version of "You Ain't House" or Derrick Carter's infectiously minimal mix of "Blam!" to see what we're saying.
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