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Rob Redford
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Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: Maidstone producer Rob Redford caught the attention of Local Talk chiefs Mads Mats and Tooli via a series of self-released EPs rich in deep and jackin' cuts heavily influenced my old school Chicago house and Detroit "machine soul". This trademark style is at the heart of his new 'Drum Machine Soul' series for the Swedish label, which here debuts with a fine three-tracker. Opener 'Imagine' offers a superb fusion of spacey, angular Detroit bass, tough but bouncy drums, metallic effects, reverb-heavy spoken word snippets and vintage Chez Damier pads, while 'MPC Soul' is the kind of pleasingly swung MPC-house jam that we'd normally expect to hear from Waajeed or Andres. 'Shades of Blue', meanwhile, underpins classic deep house musicality with a deliciously jazzy broken beat rhythm.
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LT 152
30 Aug 24
Funky/Club House
30 Aug 24
Funky/Club House
Various
Review: Take broken beat as your starting point and you can head off in any number of directions - often including arhythmic avant-garde electronica and/or pointless jazzbo self-indulgence. Or you could do what Boogie Cafe do and stick to the original broken beat ethos, which was to keep DJs and their audiences supplied with dancefloor-friendly cuts that eschew the hegemony of the 4/4 kick drum and instead draw on a wide range of influences from jazz, soul, reggae, African music and more. It's up to you, but on the strength of this never predictable but always floor-friendly album we'd say the latter route is the more fruitful! A fine set, with standouts including Kerrier Collective's reggae/ska-tinged 'Dens' and Sean McCabe & Shamrock's jazz-funktastic 'Somewhere Out Here'.
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BC 045D
28 Jun 24
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
28 Jun 24
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Played by: Kraak & Smaak, FINGERMAN, Juno Recommends Breakbeat, Juno Recommends Deep House, Sean McCabe
Review: For the label's 42nd release, Bristol-based Boogie Café has turned to debutant Rob Redford. There's much to admire about the Maidstone-based producer's first full EP, starting with opener 'Makin' Ends Meet', a pleasingly dusty, sub-heavy shuffler heavily inspired by vintage US deep house and smothered in evocative minor key melodies. 'Factory 2569' is a more upbeat and uplifting chunk of Latin-tinged deep house bounciness that joins the dots between Larry Heard, Floating Points and Sean McCabe, while 'We Will Be Here' is a deep and jazzy broken house gem and 'Rain In July' is a percussion-rich carnival-house wobbler underpinned by the most squelchy synth bassline imaginable.
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BC 042D
03 Nov 23
Deep House
03 Nov 23
Deep House
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DR 112
30 Aug 19
Deep House
30 Aug 19
Deep House
