Review: The Broken District label has so far proved adept at offering-up warm, groovy and sun-kissed cuts that tend towards the Balearic end of the spectrum. They're at it again on "Brokenbits Volume 1", whose opening salvo - "Bubbels" by Duktus - sounds like Dam Funk after an afternoon kissing and cuddling in the Ibizan sun. Jeppe Woolmer injects a little early evening energy via the dusty, woozy and quietly jazzy deep house shuffle of "Infinitives", before Jus Jam invites us to "Escape From The Hood" via a slow-burn chunk of deep broken beat/Balearic house fusion. To round things off, SofaTalk offers up the warm deep house/jazz-funk fusion of ear-catching closing cut "A Sparkling Day".
Lavan - "Feels Good 2 B Good Again" - (6:38) 126 BPM
Jus Jam - "Attraction Rules" - (3:15) 95 BPM
LPTLG - "Spleen" - (4:52) 120 BPM
Review: To date, Beats of No Nation's compilation style "Dance Ideas" series has been uniformly excellent, so hopes are naturally high for volume five. We shouldn't have worried, because it's every bit as essential as its predecessors. Conformal kicks things off with the sunrise-ready deep house breeze of "Gathering", where tactile chords and undulating synthesizer lines ride a bubbly drum machine rhythm, before Lavan doffs a cap to S3A and Folamour via the dusty sample-house warmth of "Feels Good 2 B Good Again". Jus Jam steals the show via the slowly building downtempo bliss of "Attraction Rules" - all Hammond organ doodles, enveloping chords and new jack swing beats - while LPTLG offers us some classic deep house smoothness in the shape of "Spleen".
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