Review: If a week is a long time in politics, then a decade is the equivalent of a lifetime in dance music terms. It's for this reason that so many labels are keen to mark their tenth birthday with a special release, just as Wolf Music - one of the UK's most reliable deep house imprints of recent times - has done here. Instead of opting for all new material, the imprint has decided to gather together some of their favourite "Wolf slammers" - cuts that have always done the business on the dancefloor. There's naturally plenty to set the pulse racing throughout, from the loopy R&B/disco/deep house fusion of Fantastic Man's "Look This Way" and the fabulously analogue Chicago retro-futurism of KRL's "Nothing You Can Teach Me", to the sample-heavy, riff-happy bounce of Red Rack'em's "Do Or Die" and the bass-heavy stomp of K98's warehouse-ready revision of Thrilogy's "Heaven".
Review: In its original form, KRL's hook-up with vocalist Janine Small, the bright and breezy "Never Leave", was the standout track on last year's superb "Third" EP on Quintessentials. Here the track is given a little spit and polish by pal Greymatter and recent Church signee Loz Goddard. The former makes the most of KLR's gorgeous synth riffs and Small's superb vocal, wrapping both around metronomic kick drums, crunchy TR-909 style snares and a formidably heavy, life-affirming analogue bassline. It is, like much of Greymatter's work, a warehouse-ready workout. As for Goddard, he opts for a loose and languid broken beat vibe, adding his own liquid synth flourishes, rumbling bass and jazzy percussion.
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