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Uc Beatz
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Review: Heist Recordings' 'The Round Up' - an annual mini-album in which label artists remix each other - reaches its tenth volume. As usual, there's plenty to set the pulse racing throughout. Dam Swindle channel the spirit of Victor Simonelli's early '90s NYC house productions on a fine version of Cinthie's 'Won't You Take Me', Krewcial opts for a bouncy, piano-rich 'classic house' revision of Orlando Voorn's 'High', and DJ Sneak re-imagines Dam Swindle's 'Soul's Lament' as a rolling, string-stab laden slice of rolling Chicago chunkiness. Further highlights include Crackazat's loose-limbed, sun-soaked and synth solo-heavy revision of Krewcial's 'Owo', Cinthie turns DJ Sneak's 'Full Cycle' into an acid-and-filter heavy peak-time loop jam, and Orlando Voorn and Marina Trench join forces on a deep, drowsy and woozy rework of UC Beatz's 'Make Me Feel'.
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HEIST 080D
09 Feb 24
Deep House
09 Feb 24
Deep House
Review: Having launched their self-titled imprint earlier in the year via an EP of their own, Brussells-based Supra House Collectif (a publicity shy four-man production tag team) has decided to hand over the reins to release number two to a quartet of talented friends-in-music. Experienced artist Tour-Mauborg steps up first with 'Supra House', a rolling slab of Clavinet-sporting loop-house funkiness, before Bendrix opts for a deeper, warmer and more tactile - though still quietly joyous - deep house sound on 'All Along'. Max Telaer makes great use of woozy, tipsy, looped vocal samples on his drowsy but percussively punchy 'Better Days', while UC Beatz's 'So Blue' is a gorgeous and summery fusion of shuffling house beats, starry synth stabs and sweeping synth-strings.
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SHC 002
22 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
22 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
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MEM 024
28 Jul 23
Deep House
28 Jul 23
Deep House
Various
Review: DOBRO's 'Tape' series of compilations is always worth checking, in part because the imprint uses it as a vehicle to showcase an eclectic mix of productions from new artists, rising stars and label regulars. Predictably, volume four in the series is another doozy, with plenty of hits and very few misses. Our picks of a very strong bunch include the hard-to-pigeonhole sample-house brilliance of Eloi's 'Life Is a Long Fleuve Tranquille', the tactile deep house warmth of Will Buck's 'Fine China', the languid Balearic disco bagginess of Mandalus's 'Come Closer', the synth-heavy squelch of Adham Zahran's 'Walking With You', the two step-goes-jazz-funk flex of Fred Aster's 'Strung Out', and the throbbing Italo-disco-goes-Hi-NRG pulse of 'The Happiest Track' by DJYesyes.
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DBROTP 004
12 May 23
Deep House
12 May 23
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Having previously offered up quietly impressive EPs from the likes of Manuel Costela, Novatek, Lex Athens and label founder Bengoa, B2 Recordings has turned to long-serving Belgian producer UC Beatz. He's in full-on party-starting mode on EP opener 'Nightzoom', wrapping looped disco strings, tightly edited vocal snippets and chunky bass around an infectious house beat, while 'Saraska' is a pleasingly raw, stripped-back and jacking slab of Chicago-inspired retro-futurism marked out by bold analogue bass, sweaty drums and bold TB-303 tweaks. Elsewhere, 'The Girl Who Loved Flowers' is a tasty deep house roller featuring woozy chords, sustained synth-strings and a sampled spoken word vocal that features a man reciting names of flowers, while 'Stars Keep Shining' is an even more warming and tactile foray into sun-splashed deep house territory.
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B2R 007
31 Mar 23
Deep House
31 Mar 23
Deep House
Review: Prolific producer UC Beatz adds another record label to his CV via a first outing on Dam Swindle's reliable and much-loved Heist Recordings imprint. It's an expansive, five-track affair, with two of the highlights being high-profile collaborations: a deliciously cowbell-rich chunk of vocal deep house pleasure with Mariana Trench (the brilliant 'Make Me Feel'), and the warm, starry, sunny and deliciously percussive 'Free' (with Tour-Maubourg). Elsewhere, opener 'Orchid's Wish' is a bold and attractive chunk of post-disco-house hedonism full of swirling orchestral samples and looped vocal snippets; 'Blu Thang' is a breezy slab of early morning deep house classiness; and 'Purple Corner Fig' is a joyous house roller that sounds like it could have been made in the late 1990s.
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HEIST 069
24 Mar 23
Deep House
24 Mar 23
Deep House
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OTT 161
28 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
28 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: The joy of the digital download editions of the DJ Kicks series is not so much the included DJ mix - which, of course, is invariably excellent - but the accompanying full-length, DJ friendly tracks gathered by that edition's selector, in this case Elevate Berlin record store owner (and fine producer) Cinthie Christl. Her mostly club-friendly selections are little less than superb, moving from driving, organ-and-bass-rich U.S-style house (Terrence Parker, Niles Cooper, Sandil, her own exclusive 'Organ (DJ Kicks)') and life-affirming piano-house (Ruff Stuff), to deep two-step (Camion Bazar), slamming techno-funk (Anil Aras), dusty techno (Adriyano), deep breakbeat wooziness (Ben Hauke) and deep, dreamy acid jack ('Anna Wall'). In other words, it's a blindingly good selection - and Cinthie's DJ mix is wildly entertaining, too.
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K7412DX
01 Apr 22
Deep House
01 Apr 22
Deep House
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ERD 023
26 Nov 21
Deep House
26 Nov 21
Deep House
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ERD 022
19 Nov 21
Deep House
19 Nov 21
Deep House
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ERD 020
05 Nov 21
Deep House
05 Nov 21
Deep House
Review: The latest artist to join Razor N Tape's original production-focused Reserve imprint is UC Beatz, a storied deep house producer whose bulging discography contains all manner of warming, club-ready treats. There's plenty of subtle variety to be found on the Midnight Swing EP, with the Brussels-born artist flitting between hazy, organ-sporting late-night chunkiness (the classic-sounding title track, which makes use of some vintage vocal snippets), airy colourfulness (the ultra-positive electronic melodies, lo-fi machine drums and tactile chords of 'Blue Ciel', and revivalist, mid-90s New Jersey garage/New York deep house fusion ('Broken Idyll'). Label regular Cody Currie provides the sole remix: a gorgeously airy, warm and sun-kissed revision of 'Blue Ciel' that's simply sublime.
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RNTD 071
17 Sep 21
Deep House
17 Sep 21
Deep House
Various
Played by: FINGERMAN, Juno Recommends Disco, CHEWY RUBS, 80's Child, Stephen Richards (DiscoDaze), Andy Buchan, Chuggin Edits, Henri Le Blanc, Kongisto, VIGI, Juno Download
Review: Two years have passed since the last Masterworks Music label compilation, so this fourth volume is long overdue. It's another expansive affair, with boss man Danny "80s Child" Worrall offering up no less than 20 exclusives from a mixture of label regulars and new recruits. As you'd expect, there's much to enjoy, with highlights including the rubbery and celebratory disco goodness of Surgery Edits' 'Get Up and Boogie', the hazy house pleasure of Dirtytwo's 'Desire', the string-laden peak-time rush of Chris Grubinza's 'Feel The Rush', the revivalist 80s boogie brilliance of Slync and Evie Adams' 'Fantasy', and the wonderfully loved-up 80s soul-meets-nu-disco warmth of Paper Street Soul's 'Fwok!'.
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MMD 100
07 Dec 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
07 Dec 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
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ERD 09
30 Oct 20
Deep House
30 Oct 20
Deep House
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CHR 061
07 Nov 14
Funky/Club House
07 Nov 14
Funky/Club House
