KOKO.IT - "I Can Love You Tonight" - (5:55) 132 BPM
Watchers (UK) - "Got The Reload" - (6:00) 130 BPM
Vitess - "Push" - (5:10) 133 BPM
Ben Horton - "Hit My Line" - (5:24) 130 BPM
Review: 'Dance Energy 002' delivers four dynamic tracks, each with its own unique flavor, making it a balanced and fun compilation. KOKO.IT starts with 'I Can Love You Tonight', a melodic tech house gem. Its solid 90s-inspired sounds and great melody make it a fun and well-produced standout. Watchers (UK) follows with 'Got The Reload', a catchy, high-energy track that combines funky rhythms with a dirty bassline, all while maintaining a memorable melody that keeps the energy flowing. Vitess brings a strong techno influence with 'Push', a dancefloor workout that blends driving techno sounds with house elements, delivering a powerful, rhythmic experience. Ben Horton closes the compilation with 'Hit My Line', a serious electro track with a futuristic, 80s-inspired vibe. Its cinematic, movie-like atmosphere adds a different dimension to the release. Dance Energy 002 is a well-rounded compilation, offering a diverse mix of sounds for any dancefloor.
Review: Paris-based producer Vitess continues his flow of music following releases on Up The Stuss, LOCUS and Shall Not Fade, in addition to his own Retro Futura imprint. Vitess' latest five-track special, Visions, for Rossi's HOMEGROWN label provides the artist with a second appearance there - making himself known with the stand out track on this EP, "Blue Vision", somewhat already anthemic in its appeal thanks it synth-driven energy and dancefloor operandi. Turning up the sultry disco fever and French touch vibes in "Jami Rocaille" - other numbers like "First Night" so richly remind us of The Ones "Flawless", while "Big Sound" throws in some dubbier house action. And for that bassline and acid session check out "Drive Me Crazy".
Review: Pont Neuf, a pivotal player in the vibrant French house scene, stands as an independent music label with some 40 releases over seven years. Notable artists like Tour-Maubourg, Oden & Fatzo, Mira Ló, THEOS, Cosmonection, and Vitess have graced the label - for starters. Marking their seventh anniversary, this annual compilation series, Hexagonal Club, spotlights both established and emerging artists who define the evolving French house wave - leafing heavily from classic American genres like disco, ballroom and mid-western house to B-boy electro and deep, modern swoon to boot. Get Hexagonal
Review: INTEASE 003 is the result of the third Intease contest. After the jury made a pre-selection, the community of producers voted for its favourites. Vitess produced the track "DewDew" and featured on this release are the winners of the competition. Doublure goes for that Berlin new rave vibe, Palorim heads to the afterhours in minimal house fashion, and Jake Scully goes deep - late night mood music style.
Review: Chat Noir has always used the 'Tools' series to showcase tracks from talented newcomers, so it's nice to see them welcome back some old faces - now established producers - for a special 'All Stars' release brimming with good-time grooves and seriously playable fodder. Occibel steps up first with the stab-happy, all-action techno retro-futurism of 'Obale', before Vitess wraps the glitchy sounds of tech-house and fizzing, warehouse-ready electronics to a tactile techno beat on 'AB Road'. Sunass then brilliantly dips the tempo on the shuffling, far-sighted, squelch-along tech-funk of 'Off World', before Noiro whisks us off to 'Bikini Bottom', a place where squelchy synth-bass, old skool riffs and sci-fi sonics come together in perfect unison. Jo'Z's 'Analyzing', meanwhile, is a spacey, bouncy, organ-rich techno delight.
Review: Many happy returns to much-loved French imprint Pont Neuf, who have decided to mark their sixth birthday with an expansive compilation of new tracks from a mix of label regulars and newcomers. It's a predictably strong set all told, with the label's usual high-grade deep house cuts being joined by a range of delicious dancefloor diversions and surprise workouts. There's not room to pick out all the highlights, but our current favourites include the gently acid-flecked, soon-to-be-anthemic positivity of Tour-Maubourg's 'Square Sounds', the dubbed-out, off-kilter micro-house brilliance of Flabbaire's 'Tribute', the vibraphone-sporting deep house rush of 'Cosmopolitan' by Maoke, Mira Lo's trance-inducing 'Look What You've Done' and the sparse, sub-heavy jack of Saudade's 'Sherman'.
Review: Having existed for some time as a DJ booking and management agency, Chevry has decided to launch its own label. Fittingly, release one is a compilation that acts as a kind of showcase for the artists on its roster. There's much to admire across the 13 tracks, with highlights including - but in no way limited to - the sun-kissed acid house-meets-nu-disco bounce of Fasme's 'Acid Party', the deep and dusty, disco-tinged loop-house of Jeff The Fool's 'What You Need', the breakbeat-driven piano house rush of 'Stock Option' by Deborah Aime La Bagarre, the sub-heavy, low-slung deep house strut of DJ Steaw's 'Sunlight' and the late '90s, Dave Angel style techno-funk of 'Feel Your Soul' by Baccus. Psartek Phillipe's closing cut 'Muse About', a Shazz-esque chunk of acid-driven French techno, is also impressive.
Review: Following up some impressive ones on Houseum, Chat Noir and Unknown To The Unknown, Vitess joins the London-based label Dansu Discs with his Hacking System EP, where he delivers a release full of classic house and early trance motifs - an aesthetic that the Parisian is becoming increasingly renowned for. From the heady bleeps and breaks rave energy of "Computer System", more euphoria awaits you on the low end driven "Holy Kush" that's aimed squarely at the main room dancefloor. Elsewhere, enjoy the ride on the throwback to the Second Summer Of Love with the retro elevation of "Eurostep" which also receives a groovy UK tech house rework by label alumnus ADMNTi - founder of the 4Plae Records and Yamanu imprints.
Review: Hexagonal Club isn't a real nightclub, just the name given by Paris-based Pont Neuf to their compilations showcasing fresh electronic grooves from up-and-coming French artists (France being known colloquially as 'l'Hexagone', you see). And what a compilation Volume 2 is: few things in life get this writer as excited as a collection of quality deep house jams from people you've never heard of, and this album ticks that particular box nicely! The over-riding influence is deep house from the Heard/Trent/Damier school but there's room too for everything from the Italo/prog stylings of Fasme's 'Turbo Blaster' to the left coast-ish bump of THEOS's 'Wanna Go Out'. Get 'em while they're chaud, people!
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