Review: Serial collaborator Ridney is at it again. Having previously worked with everyone from Richard Earnshaw and Artful, to Andy Daniell and Lenny Fontana, the British producer has joined forces with rising star Mark Hill and vocalist Aaron James Cashell for a collaborative workout. In its original and extended mix forms (tracks two and three), 'Do What We Do' is a gorgeously summery, sun-splashed house workout laden with organic instrumentation and seriously soulful lead vocals. It comes backed with a wealth of remixes, as you'd expect. Sebb Junior provides edited, extended and instrumental revisions, re-framing the track as a bouncy disco-house style number, while Webqueawry drops a synth-laden 'French Touch' style revision and Ridney drops a cap to the hard-wired loop-funk of DJ Sneak.
Review: Summer may be a distant memory (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere, at least), but this collaboration between Ridney and Inaya Day sounds like a proper, hands-aloft, outdoor dancing anthem in the making. In the pair's extended mix form (track five), 'Like You' is a timeless-sounding chunk of retro-futurist house goodness laden with attractive piano stabs, weighty bass, marimba style melodic motifs and strong lead vocals. The accompanying remix package is impressive too, with Mighty Mouse's tech-tinged Afro-house revisions, Broken Spectrum's deep and loved-up, street soul-influenced 'Reprise' version and Sean Garnier's excitable funky house-goes-nu-disco rework all hitting the spot.
Review: Dutch dance behemoth Armada Music might be best known for trance and hard dance, but for the last five years their Subjekt offshoot has delivered some killer house music - material that frequently gets played in some of the biggest of big rooms over in Ibiza. This expansive, action-packed collection rounds up some of the label's current White Isle hits, in the process allowing DJs the world over to get their mitts on a swathe of exclusives. Naturally it's big on current and future anthems, with our highlights of the 40-strong track list including CID and Westend's heavyweight, Inner City-sampling 'Let MeTake You', Kevin Saunderson's classic Motor City style rework of Andrea Olivia's 'Transit', the hands-aloft rush of Low Steppa's 'Your Dreams' and the sleazy dark-tech dirtiness of 'Banaza' by Kura.
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