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Review: Apparel Music's latest compilation series, Coffee Club, has been designed to showcase "laidback vibes and soulful grooves" of the sort that can provide the perfect accompaniment to supping on a latte, long black or double espresso. The six tracks on show on volume one undoubtedly hit this brief, with highlights including the sinewy, ultra-deep, sunrise house wooziness of Apparel Wax's '0091A', the vibraphone-laden, early St Germain-esque wonder of 'Soul Haze' by Sek, the jazzy and dubby lusciousness of Sune's 'En Saga', and Girls of the Internet's deep, dusty and chunky remix of 'Everytime' by Jason Heresco, where vintage female vocal snippets, tactile electric piano chords and a jazzy bassline all catch the ear.
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APDCOFFEE 001
19 Apr 24
Deep House
19 Apr 24
Deep House
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APDEXTRA 041A
22 Mar 24
Jazz
22 Mar 24
Jazz
Review: Brunch.wav & Jason Hersco's Say What I Mean EP emerges as the latest offering from Apparel Music, showcasing the collaborative efforts of two seasoned artists within the label's family. The titular track, "Say What I Mean" along with "Feelings Of What" and "Solitude," unveils a fusion of classic deep house rhythms and mainstream accessibility, creativity and clubland appeal. While each number on offer shares a similar sonic landscape, it's the nuanced details that distinguish them from each other, providing a sense of uniqueness and complementary approach to sequencing the EP. Sporting some lo-fi ambiance, coupled with clear dancefloor influences alongside the odd dash of disco, it's a record to that does away with any handbags while encouraging live bongo drums or if you're lucky some sax on stage!
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APDEXTRA 039
12 Jan 24
Deep House
12 Jan 24
Deep House
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APLWAX 007D
06 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
06 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Inspired by mystery man Apparel Wax's childhood love of "45s", the 'MINI' series features tracks that can (and will) be released on seven-inch singles as well as digital download. To kick things off, the Italian producer has served up a pair of "summery and groovy" workouts tailor-made for outdoor DJ sets and sun-down daydreaming. Our masked hero begins with 'MINI001A', a deliciously loose-limbed slab of disco-tinged joy where sun-drenched strings, rubbery bass guitar and eyes-closed female vocal samples cluster around a bumpin' house beat, before opting for an even more soaring deep disco-house sound on the arguably superior 'MINI001B'. While it's as equally wedded to the power of house grooves, its' instrumentation is far more classy and sonically detailed.
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APLWAXMINI 001
04 Aug 23
Deep House
04 Aug 23
Deep House
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Review: Apparel Wax reworks 'She Was Once My Woman' by Muscle Shoals Horns - a breakout project from the in-house brass section at the legendary FAME Studios in Alabama, who backed everyone from Aretha, Wilson Pickett and BB King to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. Released on the Monument label in 1983, the original was a mellow, melancholy affair made for late-night smoochin' but 40 years on Apparel Wax ups the tempo several notches and whacks a 4/4 kick underneath, making for something far better suited to dancefloor play. The male soul vocal performance is superb but naturally it's the horns that steal the show.
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APLWAXMINI 002A
28 Jul 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
28 Jul 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: Aparel Music has come up with a novel way to mark its 13th birthday - a series of 13-track comps, each boasting a mix of recent highlights and deep cuts, tailor-made for a handful of download and streaming sites. So, what can you expect from Junodownload's exclusive Apparel Music collection? In short, a sublime mixture of dreamy, dub-wise, slow-motion deepness (Roy Giles remixing Ahautzab), tactile and immersive deep house goodness (Eddie Shkiper, Desos), colourful fare rich in jazzy instrumentation (Four Walls' superb 'Hello Underground'), jazz-funk-flavoured nu-disco (Polar Lights) and high-grade peak-time fare (a typically dusty and warming slab of excellence from the legendary Delano Smith).
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APPAREL 004
21 Apr 23
Deep House
21 Apr 23
Deep House
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APDZONE 002
17 Mar 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
17 Mar 23
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Review: For the label's first outing of 2023, Apparel Music has decided to introduce us to a new talent - self-proclaimed small-town country boy Immersif. As debuts go, it's a quietly confident and gently impressive affair, with the French producer deftly showcasing the depth and subtle variety of his jazz-flecked sound. He begins with title track 'Grands Bains', a wonderfully rich and warming chunk of jazzy deep house rich in undulating saxophone lines and twinkling electric piano solos (think 'Boulevard'-era St Germain and you're close), before serving up a spacey slab of liquid D&B brilliance (the LTJ Bukem-meets-Adam F flex of 'Eysinna Express'). To round things off, he goes slower and even deeper on 'Analog Breakup', an immersive and intergalactic slab of yearning future jazz brilliance.
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APDEXTRA 032
13 Jan 23
Deep House
13 Jan 23
Deep House
Review: For the uninitiated, 4evergreen is Apparel Music's "back catalogue" series, with each multi-artist EP sporting cuts from the Milan-based imprint's bulging archives. To kick things off, we're taken back to the birth of the hush-hush, vinyl-focused Apparel Wax series and 2017 debut offering '001A1', a jazzy, sun-splashed slice of sample-heavy deep house goodness, before we're given another chance to savour Hurlee's brilliant 2018 cut 'In The Sunshine', a sing-along slab of summery deep house warmth tailor-made for festivals and al-fresco parties. Next the Italian imprint mines Modulearth's 2015 set 'Blue Note' to rescue Moony Me's sensationally sub-heavy, sunrise-ready rework of 'Broken Memories', before rounding things off with 'For Gil and New York' by Francesco Zani - a killer 2013 peak-time house workout with jazzy flourishes that makes great use of Gil Scott-Heron samples.
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APL4VRGRN 012
30 Dec 22
Funky/Club House
30 Dec 22
Funky/Club House
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APDZONE 001
16 Dec 22
Deep House
16 Dec 22
Deep House
Review: Apparel Music regular Apparel Wax - a shadowy man of mystery who has never revealed his identity - returns to the imprint with something special: a mixtape style release made up of his own previously unreleased, and obtusely named, tracks. You'll find the mix itself tucked away at the end of this digital version, but we'll concentrate on the tracks themselves, which take a colourful, inviting, gently jazzy and supremely sun-splashed approach to deep house. Highlights include the hands-in-the-air, disco-flecked goodness of '006A1', the '80s soul-sampling '005A2', the rainbows of sonic colour that is the peak-time ready '003B' and the tooled-up re-edit style afternoon delight that is 'LP001A1'.
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APLWAXMIX 001
24 Jun 22
Deep House
24 Jun 22
Deep House
Review: Luca Ferrera made his first appearance as Butch Haynes two years ago on Sistrum Recordings, via a typically intergalactic fusion of deep house ad Motor City techno sounds. There's a similarly far-sighted feel to Ferrera's first Apparel Music outing, with opener 'Sonata Interstellar' offering the perfect blend of slowly shifting synth-strings, spacey chords, languid machine drums and undulating analogue bass. His love of tactile, sci-fi sounding synths also comes to the fore on the chunkier and warmer 'Everybody' (a track accompanied by a wonderful Andres-esque deep house revision courtesy of Kisk) and 'Call313 Detroit 2Back', where star-fall melodies and ghostly pads rub shoulders with smoother beats and another killer analogue bassline. 'The Passage', a gorgeous chunk of beatdown-influenced downtempo bliss, completes a fine EP.
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APDEXTRA 020
05 Nov 21
Deep House
05 Nov 21
Deep House
