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Larry Heard
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Review: Finally, some 20 years after it was recorded (it hit stores on vinyl and CD a year later), Larry Heard has dropped a digital download reissue of 'Sceneries, Not Songs Vol 1', his first album under his given name (his previous full-length excursions were credited to Mr Fingers). It remains a classic full-length; a set in which he expanded on his usual detailed deep house sound and displayed the full scope of his musical vision. Of course, there's plenty of genuinely vintage, often intergalactic-sounding deep house on show (see 'Dolphin Dream' and the epic 'Midnight Movement'), but also forays into ambient ('Tahiti Dusk', 'Snowcaps', 'Winter Winds & Chills'), head-nodding downtempo beats ('Sumnertime Breeze') and jazzy mid-tempo gear ('One, Three, Five, Seven, Eight', where Heard lays down some impeccable solos).
Larry Heard - "Premonition Of Lost Love" (feat Ona King - Jordan & Kevin's Zanzibar dub) - (5:45) 124 BPM
Played by: Jakobin, Pete Haigh, Juno Recommends Deep House, Yoshi Horino(UNKNOWN season), Dave Mathmos
Review: Although the first instalment of Larry Heard's 'Vault Sessions' series of EPs featuring rare and hard-to-find material specifically showcased tracks he produced in 1988, there's no rigid concept behind this sequel - but plenty of must-have gems from the deep house legend's bulging archive. The EP opens with 'The Time Is Now (Old School Mix)', a Heard-produced Felicia Williams single of old that's typically deep and sensual, before the Chicagoan offers Jordan Fields and Kevin Elliot's Club Zanzibar New Jersey-inspired 1995 dub of 'Premonition of Love'. Elsewhere, 'Andromeda Dub' sees Heard meld deep house, dub and sci-fi synth sounds, while DJ Mel's revision of all-time-classic 'Mystery of Love' is a rolling, percussive treat.
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Mutant Beat Dance - "Feed The Enemy" (feat Tyler Pope & Pat Mahoney Of LCD Soundsystem) - (4:54) 74 BPM
Hunee / Various
Played by: Chris Coco, Juno Recommends Deep House, Juno Recommends Downtempo, In Flagranti, Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams, Phat Phil Cooper, LEGO EDIT, Paper Street Soul, Alps 2
Review: You'd expect a compilation curated by open-minded DJ/producer Hunee to be eclectic in nature, and Hunchin' All Night is just that and more. Marketed simply as "a collection of his favourite dancefloor cuts from the '70s until modern time", the compilation set is packed with obscure and inspired jams in a variety of styles. Compare, for example, the gentle but tribal rhythms and new age synthesizers of Carlos Maria and Nuno Canavarro's "Blue Terra" with the glistening, mid-80s Balearic jazz-funk brilliance of Stanislas Tohon's "Owhaaou" (as re-edited by French digger Raphael Top-Secret), or even the Clavinet-heavy Highlife brilliance of Pat Thomas's "Yesu San Bra Disco Hi Life". And that's before we get to the acid-flecked techno madness of Villa Abo and Hunee's wonderfully dreamy and dubbed-out pulse of Mappa Mundi's "Trance Fusion".
Bill Brewster / Various
Played by: Smashed Atoms, Marcel Vogel, Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz, Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams
Review: When Eskimo Recordings approached Bill Brewster with the idea of putting together a compilation exploring his epic record collection, the acclaimed journalist and DJ decided to take a widescreen approach. While the CD and vinyl versions are split into multiple, themed editions ("Post-Punk", "Balearic" and "House"), this vast, 41-track digital edition gathers everything together in one place. Predictably, it's a hugely impressive and eye-opening set, with Brewster serving up largely obscure or long-forgotten cuts that range in scope from trippy, dubbed-out post-punk disco, jaunty jazz-funk, synth-heavy boogie and heavily percussive Afro-disco grooves, to saucer-eyed European synth-pop, the dub techno of Maurizio, Swag's early UK tech-house and the East Midlands deep house bump of Charles Webster's "A Love From San Francisco" project. In other words, it's a cracker from start to finish.
Various / Bill Brewster
Played by: Noctu recordings
Larry Heard presents Mr White
Played by: Noctu recordings
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Diplomats Of Soul - "Sweet Power Your Embrace" (feat Incognito & Vanessa Haynes - Atjazz Love Soul remix) - (5:04) 110 BPM
Joey Negro & The Sunburst Band - "In The Thick Of It" (feat Angela Johnson - Joey Negro's Endless Summer mix) - (7:05) 123 BPM
Paris Cesvette & C Robert Walker - "If You Love Me" (Glenn Underground Soul Therapy mix) - (8:00) 124 BPM
Leroy Burgess - "Over Like A Fat Rat" (feat Tyrone Williams - Bobby & Steve Demo mix) - (7:06) 120 BPM
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Played by: Cisco (Vibes & Pepper Records), Quarion, Fabien Kamb, ELECTRO, Benji B, Quarion, Noctu recordings
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Various / Monte La Rue
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