Review: Milton Keynes-based Liam Geddes is the epitome of a fresh-faced house youngster, though his production style is mature for someone of such tender years. I Got Something Here, his fourth release, sounds like the product of some grizzled veteran. Bristling with shuffling rhythms, woozy atmospherics and locked-in late night grooves, it joins the dots between after hours deep house and peaktime tech-house. There's a mixture of textures, with the enveloping warmth and relentless cymbals of "Again & Over" contrasting nicely with the cooling tech-house hypnotism of "What You Been Drinking". The title track sits somewhere between the two, riding a wave of loose but intense percussion and stripped-back keys.
Review: Originally released over two 12" singles earlier in the year, Lovebox 001 sees Manchester-based label Music Is Love's setting out its formula for future success. That means delivering warm, endorphin-boosting deep house cuts, garage-influenced tracks and deliciously summery dancefloor tracks from a range of new or little-known artists. Pleasingly, there's plenty of high quality material to enjoy, from the lucid deep garage revivalism of Maxwell's "Need U", and bouncing grooves of New Jack City's "I Believe" (complete with heavy New Jersey organs, of course), to the '89 hip-house funk of Jamie Trench's "Juicy" and Gwen Guthrie-sampling goodness of Mikki Funk's "Deeper Love".
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