Review: Many happy returns to much-loved French imprint Pont Neuf, who have decided to mark their sixth birthday with an expansive compilation of new tracks from a mix of label regulars and newcomers. It's a predictably strong set all told, with the label's usual high-grade deep house cuts being joined by a range of delicious dancefloor diversions and surprise workouts. There's not room to pick out all the highlights, but our current favourites include the gently acid-flecked, soon-to-be-anthemic positivity of Tour-Maubourg's 'Square Sounds', the dubbed-out, off-kilter micro-house brilliance of Flabbaire's 'Tribute', the vibraphone-sporting deep house rush of 'Cosmopolitan' by Maoke, Mira Lo's trance-inducing 'Look What You've Done' and the sparse, sub-heavy jack of Saudade's 'Sherman'.
Review: Having existed for some time as a DJ booking and management agency, Chevry has decided to launch its own label. Fittingly, release one is a compilation that acts as a kind of showcase for the artists on its roster. There's much to admire across the 13 tracks, with highlights including - but in no way limited to - the sun-kissed acid house-meets-nu-disco bounce of Fasme's 'Acid Party', the deep and dusty, disco-tinged loop-house of Jeff The Fool's 'What You Need', the breakbeat-driven piano house rush of 'Stock Option' by Deborah Aime La Bagarre, the sub-heavy, low-slung deep house strut of DJ Steaw's 'Sunlight' and the late '90s, Dave Angel style techno-funk of 'Feel Your Soul' by Baccus. Psartek Phillipe's closing cut 'Muse About', a Shazz-esque chunk of acid-driven French techno, is also impressive.
Review: Hexagonal Club isn't a real nightclub, just the name given by Paris-based Pont Neuf to their compilations showcasing fresh electronic grooves from up-and-coming French artists (France being known colloquially as 'l'Hexagone', you see). And what a compilation Volume 2 is: few things in life get this writer as excited as a collection of quality deep house jams from people you've never heard of, and this album ticks that particular box nicely! The over-riding influence is deep house from the Heard/Trent/Damier school but there's room too for everything from the Italo/prog stylings of Fasme's 'Turbo Blaster' to the left coast-ish bump of THEOS's 'Wanna Go Out'. Get 'em while they're chaud, people!
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