Review: If you're looking for top-notch house music informed by New Jersey garage, Chicago deep house and Italo-house of old, the unashamedly nostalgic music of Davide Disanto's St David project is definitely for you. This EP for Jovonn's Body & Deep label, itself a prime outlet for classy house cuts, is as good a place as any to start. There are two St David productions on offer: the rolling, locked-in, late-night friendly wooziness of 'The Message', where sampled spoken word snippets rise above a filtered bass breakdown, and 'Wet Dreams', a sparkling and piano-sporting slab of sunshine house pleasure. Nu-Cleo delivers a 'Space Funk' styled classic house take on the latter track, while Jovonn drops vocal and instrumental takes on 'The Message' that are deeper, jazzier and more bass-heavy than St David's version.
Review: Body N Deep's 'BnD Project' EPs - compilation style four-trackers featuring cuts hand-picked by boss man Jovonn - have so far never failed to impress. Predictably, volume three in the series is every bit as essential as its predecessors. Eddie Leader sets the tone with a real earworm of a revivalist New Jersey deep house jam - all hip-swinging machine drums, chunky bass, female vocal snippets and fizzing organ stabs - before St David takes us even deeper via the squelchy synth-bass, restless stabs and synth-sax squiggles of 'The Dark Past'. Anderson Asher guests on DJ Spen and Soululedge's trumpet and saxophone-laden, sun-splashed deep house gem 'Ascension', before Jeremy Santiago FTL opts for a trippy, suspenseful, slow-building deep house-goes-tech-house vibe on superb closing cut 'Tech Head'.
Review: Italian producer St David has spent the past few years issuing some serious house tackle for the likes of Quality Vibe, Let's Play House and Theory Of Swing, and now he's up on Politics Of Dancing with some of his strongest jams to date. "Mind Power" is a driving peak time bomb with a lofty sense of spirituality lingering behind the thump of the drums. "Get Deepy" is unsurprisingly geared towards a mellower time of the night, but it's no slouch in the groove department. This is a Politics Of Dancing record after all. "Acid Shuffle" keeps the shimmering pads and marries them to a vintage drum machine jack, which Diego Krause reworks into a wholly different kind of tripped-out house wobbler.
Review: Davide Disanto - that's St David to you and me - completes his trio of releases on Let's Play House with an effervescent trip into what the Brooklyn label calls "90s throwback territory". In effect, that means swirling, filter-sporting disco-house. Opener "Sexy Funk '98", for example, layers a bustling, DJ Sneak style groove with rugged and raunchy sections from an electrically charged disco-funk workout, while the insanely bass-heavy "I Got The Music" is a maelstrom of hold-and-release disco-house euphoria. The fun continues on chunky and sweet stomper "When You Move" and the heady late night hustle of "The Connection", which has a hazier and much more locked-in feel than the EP's other tracks.
Review: Brooklyn, NYC label Let's Play House bring us a very solid three-tracker from St David, a producer based in southern Italy who's previously appeared on labels including Frole, Manitou and Quality Vibe. Opener 'I'm On Beat' is an instrumental jam based on crisp, rolling beats, a nagging two-note piano riff and a hint of funk guitar, atop which an insistent flute functions as the lead line. 'Bumpin' Heat' is aptly titled, another instrumental affair sitting right on the deep house/garage cusp, while finally 'Jumpin' Dub' is a slightly pacier cut with cut-up vocal snips and a filtered bassline.
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