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Keita Sano
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Review: On his belated return to Delusions of Grandeur following last year's excellent Love Is Emotion EP, Keita Sano has joined forces with fellow Japanese producer XTAL -an artist best-known for his various releases on Crue-L Records. The pair first unfurl 'Broken', a loopy and slow-building slab of gritty disco house that makes great use of cut-up walking bass, sharp string sounds and heady vocalisations, before delivering a deep, warm and hazy fusion of loop-house and Ithrobbing Italo-disco ('Let Us Have Nice Days, The Sun', with its gargantuan delay trails and simmering strings). Arguably best of all, though, is the beautiful and emotion rich 'Time Passing', where breathtakingly melancholic synth strings wrap around a crunchy house groove and deep disco bass.
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DOGD 101
27 Sep 24
Deep House
27 Sep 24
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: JD Twitch's Optimo Music bring us an EP that should come with a government health warning saying "Do not play during warm-up sets", because what we have here are a clutch of absolute MONSTER club tunes. 'Crazy Pa Pa' just builds and builds and builds, centred around a riff that's oddly reminiscent of Stevie Nicks' 'Edge Of Seventeen', 'Blue Fusion' is a similarly energy-giving affair but in a more urgent, technoid vein, while 'Brother' throws a curveball in the form of an all-out batucada percussion assault. The pick of a fine crop, though, is 'Fountain', which comes on like an ecstasy rush lovingly recreaed in your choice of MP3, WAV or AAC form!
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OM 60D
20 Sep 24
Funky/Club House
20 Sep 24
Funky/Club House
Review: Since making his debut on Mister Saturday Night a decade ago, Keita Sano has racked up releases on such esteemed imprints as Delusions of Grandeur, Let's Play House, 1080 and Spring Theory. Here the Berlin-based Japanese producer makes his bow on another admired house stable, Local Talk. He begins in typically sweat-soaked fashion via the breathless lo-fi house beats, cut-up vocal samples, hissing cymbals and rubbery slap-bass of 'When Love Comes Around', before opting for a more intergalactic sound on sci-fi house jam 'Special Time'. 'Roll of Acid' is a surging slab of lo-fi acid house insanity, while 'Love You Mr Brooklyn (KS For You Dub) is a bubbly, intoxicating and mind-mangling early morning stomper.
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LT 142
15 Dec 23
Funky/Club House
15 Dec 23
Funky/Club House
Review: There's no grand concept behind the latest all-star EP from Brooklyn's Let's Play House, other than a clear desire to create pandemonium out on the dancefloor. All four tracks have "peak-time anthem" written all over them, from the opening bump of Keita Sano's "Long Run (Part 3") - a brilliant, tooled-up revision of a classic disco anthem - to the ultra-jiggy hip-house madness of Jacques Renault's "Top Billin", which sounds tailor made for over-excited Adriatic boat parties and afternoon festival rinse-outs. In between, you'll find the undulating, bass-heavy grooves and delay-laden soul samples of Klubbhuset's "Omedelbar Karlek" and the swirling disco-house grandiosity of Lovers' "Fresh 'N' Hot". To quote a much-used cliche: this is all killer, no filler.
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LPHWHTDD
03 Apr 23
Deep House
03 Apr 23
Deep House
Review: The 120th release on esteemed Swiss imprint Morris Audio is a multi-artist affair, with a quartet of artists - some well-known, others rising stars - delivering predictably high-quality cuts. Sometime See-Saw and Quintessentials contributor Decent Rides steps up first with 'At The Terrance', an analogue-rich chunk of Move D-esque deep house excellence, before experienced Italian artist The Mechanical Man delivers a synthesizer-rich fusion of Italo-disco, analogue nu-disco and sun-bright Chicago style house ('Saw Killer'). Tree Threes' 'Check It Out' brilliantly blurs the boundaries between dusty old U.S deep house and early morning New Jersey garage flavours on 'Check It Out', while Keita Sano's breezy 'Everywhere' is a masterclass in jazzy, lo-fi piano house.
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MORRIS 120
24 Mar 23
Deep House
24 Mar 23
Deep House
Played by: Kraak & Smaak
Review: Prolific Japanese producer Keita Sano has been developing a close relationship with the Let's Play House label for sometime. This latest EP, which first appeared as part of the Brooklyn imprint's "LPH White" series of 12" singles, follows on from a 2016 mini-album and the recent Totsu EP. It's something of an epic affair all told, with eight fine tracks to choose from. Our picks include the swirling delays, heady reverb and looped electric piano motifs of head-in-the-clouds disco-house workout "A Place Called Sun Beach", the gentle tropical melodies and South American percussion "Sweet Fruit", and boompty-minded disco-house bounce of "Can't Wait For The Party". That said, the more cinematic deep house chug of "Psychedelic Ants" and dubby, slo-mo disco shuffle of "The Stripper" are also fantastic.
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LPHWHT 18+
25 May 18
Deep House
25 May 18
Deep House
Review: Holic Trax has established itself as a respected, no nonsense outlet for quality house and
techno and that carries on here with a new EP from Keita Sano. Keita Sano, based in Okayama, Japan, has previously released on labels such as NYC's Mister Saturday Night and Hugo Capablanca's Discos Capablanca. Up first, 'Flowers From Your Grave' is a gritty number with tough drums, Detroit inspired pads and plenty of physicality in the groove. Crisp and dynamic, it's a robust house cut, for sure. 'Let's Stay Together' is a more party sounding offering with atmospheric ambience in the back ground as streaming Rhodes chords and organic percussion set a Moodymann style vibe front and centre. Then comes 'Night Walking', which flips the script again, this time sinking down into a warm, propulsive deep house vibe with bold but soft edged chords, driving drums and engaging hand claps. This is a fine EP that is sure to make a big impact on the dance floor.
techno and that carries on here with a new EP from Keita Sano. Keita Sano, based in Okayama, Japan, has previously released on labels such as NYC's Mister Saturday Night and Hugo Capablanca's Discos Capablanca. Up first, 'Flowers From Your Grave' is a gritty number with tough drums, Detroit inspired pads and plenty of physicality in the groove. Crisp and dynamic, it's a robust house cut, for sure. 'Let's Stay Together' is a more party sounding offering with atmospheric ambience in the back ground as streaming Rhodes chords and organic percussion set a Moodymann style vibe front and centre. Then comes 'Night Walking', which flips the script again, this time sinking down into a warm, propulsive deep house vibe with bold but soft edged chords, driving drums and engaging hand claps. This is a fine EP that is sure to make a big impact on the dance floor.
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HT 016
06 Nov 17
Deep House
06 Nov 17
Deep House
Played by: Honey Soundsystem
Review: Okayama resident Keita Sano is part of Japan's new wave of music producers and has been weaving his way through house, techno and electronica releases with an affinity to old school processes and vintage gear. With releases clocked up on Mister Saturday Night, 1080p, Lower Parts, Row, Strictly Groove Recordings, Enother Blessing, Holic Trax and Spring Theory he has shown his eclectic tastes and zany approach to music. For Sano, making music is like keeping a diary and this year will see many more releases and his new live show. From the smooth bass driven deepness of "Want" or "Simple Gimmicks", through to the dubby hypnotic techno of "Drum Wick Key" or the classic rave reconstruction of "I Found The Key" it's a compelling listen from start to finish.
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PARAGRAM 010
28 Jul 17
Deep House
28 Jul 17
Deep House
Various
Soul Clap - "Funk Bomb" (feat Billy "Bass" Nelson - Doc Martin & Blakkat Sublevel live remix) - (6:14) 124 BPM
Seth Troxler & Tom Trago Present T&T Music Factory - "De Natte Cel" (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) - (11:29) 120 BPM
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K 7356D
05 May 17
Deep House
05 May 17
Deep House
Review: Keita Sano's third artist album in as many years shows that he is one of the most talented new producers of rugged dance floor tracks. Released on Full Pupp offshoot label Rett I Fletta, it veers from the soaring acid-disco of "Full of Love" and "Honey" into the rhythmic machine dance of "Leave The Floor" and the shimmering Italo synths and snare rolls of "On The Floor". Whatever the Japanese producer may lose out by not focusing on a specific style, he more than compensates with through his adventurous approach. This is apparent as the eponymous album reaches a climax with "Vood" and "Sucker (Part 2)", the kind of throbbing hardware techno jams that wouldn't sound out of place on L.I.E.S.
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RIF 010
25 Nov 16
Techno
25 Nov 16
Techno
Review: The rather prolific Keita Sano has been responsible for some terrific electronic music over the last couple of years, including must-have 12" singles on Spring Theory, Lower Parts, Mister Saturday Night and Discos Capablanca. Here he makes his first appearance on Brooklyn's Let's Play House, serving up a mini-album full of evocative house productions. Highlights come thick and fast, from the alien electronics and pulsating machine rhythms of "Own Signal", to the John Carpenter-in-space, horror-disco throb of "Fix". Arguably best of all, though, is closer "Think Twice", a relentless disco-house loop jam full of cut-up samples, heavy bass and thrusting drums.
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LPH 043
06 May 16
Deep House
06 May 16
Deep House
Review: There's a pleasant story behind this release from Mister Saturday Night, with Okayama based musician Keita Sano discovering the label's releases in the vinyl bins of his local record shop and inspired by the music was moved to produce and send Eamon and Justin a clutch of tracks. The three cuts chosen from his submissions for this People Are Changing are far removed from the glitchy, instrumental hip hop that made up Sano's Jewels EP for London label Keep Up! late last year but this only suggests a degree of strength regarding his production prowess. The title track is equal parts high octane and unhinged and really this latter aspect remains a key component of Sano's subsequent productions, with the electrically charged "She Was The One" a particular highlight.
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MSN 010
01 Apr 14
Techno
01 Apr 14
Techno
