Review: Parisian producer Clement Mallein has yet to achieve much in the way of coverage or hype, but his previous releases - especially those on In The Box and LaGaffe Tales - have all been excellent. Debut album "Daze Album" is every bit as impressive, with the In Any Case Records co-founder moving away from the DJ Deep/Three Chairs inspired deep house dustiness of old towards a sound clearly inspired by the likes of Young Marco and, perhaps more pertinently, fellow Paris resident D.K. That means tropical drum machine rhythms, breezy 1980s new age synthesizer lines, ultra-Balearic chords, extended ambient intros and an overriding sense of rushing sunrise positivity.
Review: For their first foray into the world of the compilation style EP, Secret Crunch has gathered together an impressive cast of little known and fast-rising producers. Local Talk regular Sameed kicks things off with the warm, sugary and luscious, sample-heavy deep house bounce of "Pho", before Kian T impresses via the dreamy deep house grooves and lilting electrofunk synth solos of EP standout "As I". Lady Blaktronika provides some wonderfully evocative vocals on Jonna's rhythmically skewed but effortlessly groovy "You Make Me Do Things", while Malouane wraps ultra-deep chords and barely audible piano samples around a bouncy, jazz break-propelled deep house groove on the excellent "Got Robbed in a Forest".
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