Review: Those who love the 21st century take on what would have once been called progressive house - tactile tech-house laden with deep house melodies and sweeping, inspiring musicality - should be familiar with Makebo, a producer who has so far notched up releases on Peace Symophonies, Anjunadeep, All Day I Dream and Shanti Radio. This three-tracker sees the Russian producer return to the latter label with more tactile, accessible and enjoyable workouts. He begins via the shuffling grooves, minimal house electronics, jazz-flecked bass and warming electric piano keys of 'Magare', before reaching for memorable melodies, huggable chords and rubbery beats of 'Waterfall'. Arguably best of all though is 'Belief', a slowly building deep tech-house number smothered in eyes-closed piano motifs and twinkling electronic lead lines.
Review: Since emerging on Shanti Radio a few years ago, Russian producer Makebo has made multiple contributions to All Day I Dream's popular label samplers. Here the Moscow-based artist delivers his first EP for the imprint, kicking things off in style via the lolloping but locked-in drums, hazy female vocal snippets, twinkling pianos, swelling orchestration and warming riffs of 'Skyline'. 'Whale' features bolder strings, longer breakdowns, double bass and more tech-tinged grooves, while 'Dark Places' is smooth, deep and alluring with some wonderfully melancholic and poignant musical elements catching the ear. Rounding of a rock-solid EP is 'Freedom', another toasty fusion of deep tech-house and deep house that boasts a lengthy, sunset-friendly breakdown two thirds of the way through.
Review: Lee Burridge and Matthew Dekay's All Day I Dream label have successfully carved out their own very particular niche in the house music canon over the past decade or so, specialising in melodic, mellifluous grooves coming from that place where deep house, progressive house and Balearic/chill-out/downtempo blur into one. And here, they serve up a 12-track compilation that sticks more or less entirely to that same blueprint. As such, it's perhaps unlikely to win them many new converts, but with cuts from the likes of Mass Digital, Squire and Death On The Balcony, fans of the label will be more than satisfied.
Review: A sampler collection here from All Day I Dream, the label set up in 2011 by Lee Burridge and Matthew Dekay to explore "beautiful, emotional and melancholic shades of house and techno". What you get are 13 tracks coming from that part of the spectrum where deep house and ambient collide, with just a hint of prog and the very deepest trance in the mix too - tracks that will be equally at home in the warm-up, on weary 6am floors or chillin' on the sofa. Standouts include Fulltone's 'A Whole Lot Of Winters', one of collection's more overtly floor-friendly cuts, and Hermanez's deceptively funky 'Ensina'.
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