Review: If African jazz and hi-life are your bag then you'll find much to enjoy on this four-tracker from Haze City, who heads up the Casse Records label but here does the do for fellow Bristolians Boogie Cafe. The stuttering, hip-shakin' rhythms of 'Drums' set the tone, 'Akula' treads a slightly deeper, mellower path, 'Ai Eyah' comes the closest of the four to straight-up bruk beat and should give the jazz dancers plenty of scope to flex, while 'The Rattles, The Bells' (the pick for yours truly) pays homage to Ghanaian music as it takes us into more experimental territory, and packs some seriously bowel-bothering sub-bass.
Review: Is there a more on-form label right now than Boogie Cafe The Bristol-based imprint is certainly in a rich vein of form, as this second compilation of previously unheard treats proves. In fact, it's such a fabulous collection of cuts that singling out just a few tracks for praise is particularly tough. Even so, our current favourites include the slinky, synth-laden deep house/jazz-funk fusion of BRS's "Get In There", the drowsy downtempo hip-hop beats of Chezz's "Yeah Baby", the late '80s New Jersey garage revivalism of Goshawk's "Got You All Night", the Seiji style broken beat business that is Lord Leopard's "Magic Hands" and the Latin-fired disco-house bump of J Morrison's "Mullet Frenzy".
Review: In honour of the imprint's fifth birthday, Boogie Cafe founders Jimmy The Twin and Alex Dinham have decided to offer up a first label compilation containing previously unheard tracks from their growing family of artists. There's naturally plenty to set the pulse racing among the woozy deep house, shuffling broken beats, seductive synth-boogie and retro-futurist US garage on offer, with highlights including the musically expansive brilliance of Sean McCabe's "Infinity", the slick New Jersey bump of Goshawk's "Home (Throwback Vibe Mix)", the Balearic nu-disco bliss of Piers Kirwan's "Shout", the spacey Afro-bruk shapes of EVM128's "Tuff" and the sub-heavy dancehall-soul bounce of Haze City's broken house gem "Yer Tiz". Top stuff from the Bristol-based imprint: don't let it pass you by!
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