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Clone Royal Oak
ROYAL 055
10 May 24
Funky/Club House
10 May 24
Funky/Club House
Played by: FINGERMAN, Yoshi Horino(UNKNOWN season), Dam Swindle, Andy Vann/Grass Green, Lone D, Max Sinàl, Mike Nasty
Review: Fresh from delivering an EP of nostalgic 'Club Specials' on regular home Wolf Music Recordings, Frits Wentink returns to Clone's Royal Oak imprint for the first time since 2020. Title track 'Spiritual Basslines' - which is available in 'Club Mix' and 'Extended Mix' variations - follows a similar sonic template to the Amsterdam stalwart's most recent releases, adding classic deep house sounds to the kind of skippy, loose-limbed groove most often found on late '90s US garage releases. Highlights elsewhere across the EP include the vintage Nu Groove-influenced excellence of 'Eternity', the dub house meets-nu-disco shuffle of 'Golf Cart Joyride', and the deliciously deep, dusty and dubby shuffle of 'Olympiad'.
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ROYAL 056
05 Apr 24
Deep House
05 Apr 24
Deep House
Review: Colombian house hero Felipe Gordon impressed (as usual) on his first outing on Clone's Royal Oak offshoot earlier in the year, so naturally hopes are high for this speedy sequel. Title track 'No Words' comes presented in three different forms: Gordon's ultra-deep, hypnotic original mix in which immersive pads and echoing organ snippets ride hushed machine drums and a raw TB-303 bassline, and two takes by Byron The Aquarius. The Atlanta producer first reaches for flutes, jammed-out boogie synths and looser house grooves on a fine 'Dub' mix, before presenting a shorter "remix" that gives more prominence to the wigged-out solos and fluttering flutes. 'Travel Through Your Mind', a more driving chunk of intergalactic deep house, completes a fine package.
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ROYAL 054
22 Dec 23
Deep House
22 Dec 23
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: DJ Fett Burger, AKA DJ Dog, is a Norwegian producer with several long-players under his belt, while DJ Speckgurtel is probably better known as Phillip Lauer, whose CV to date includes two albums for Running Back and one for Permanent Vacation. The pair first joined forces on 2013 EP 'Speckbass', and now they reunite to deliver an album that spans a range of house styles, from the 90s vibes of 'Harpo' and '6Drops (Piano Mix)' to the dreamy, stuttery 'Sunshine In The Limousine', via the prog-leaning title cut and downtempo closer 'Sonnen Ambiente'. Some of the tracks feel a little like extended sketches, but there's still much to enjoy here.
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ROYAL 046LP
31 May 19
Deep House
31 May 19
Deep House
Review: With renewed interest in early '90s Italian dream house, it's perhaps unsurprising that Clone's Royal Oak imprint has decided to release a swathe of previously unheard tracks from key (sorry) collective Key Tronics Ensemble. It's a predictably warm, rich and loved-up collection, beginning with the saucer-eyed dream house goodness of "Calypso in My House", a notably different version of the track that later became all-time-classic "Calypso of House". "Move in that Demo" is a smiling chunk of New Jersey garage/Italo-house fusion, while "Something in my Groove" sounds like an unlikely collaboration between Larry Heard and Morenas. Best of all though is "Travelling", a rush-inducing chunk of dream house bliss that's amongst the best the genre has to offer.
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ROYAL 036
03 Jul 17
Deep House
03 Jul 17
Deep House
Review: Rotterdam-based Ukranian Antenna is the next producer to step up on Clone's Royal Oak offshoot. The Pinkman regular is in fine form, laying down a quartet of cuts that blend a range of classic house and Detroit techno influences in attractive, dancefloor-friendly ways. While the title track's fusion of British 'intelligent techno' and vintage Detroit sounds is undeniably impressive, it's the undulating acid lines, spacey tunefulness and distorted beats of "Happy Dance" that hit home hardest. That said, opener "Lake of X" - a Larry heard style chunk of spine-tingling analogue deep house - and the similarly intoxicating "Atomic" are also superb.
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ROYAL 028
19 Oct 15
Deep House
19 Oct 15
Deep House
Played by: Adam B (Homegrown Music), Chris Coco, SW, Dan Mela, Alkalino, Dairmount (Room With A View), Juno Recommends Funky House, Round Table Knights, Numoment, Bodhi
Review: Randee Jean sees the very exciting prospect of Chicken Lips' Dean Meredith and Andrew Meecham on Clone's Royal Oak imprint, albeit under the new Randee Jean moniker. Given that the name sounds like a long-forgotten New York house producer, it's not surprising "You Got It" provides as glorious a pastiche of Paradise Garage-era house as you'd expect, with a strong vocal, jazzy Rhodes and tumbling percussive swing. As ever with Clone, the remix choices prove inspired; Arttu puts his own tweaks on the track to give it a heavier, leaden stomp and thick soupy bass lifted up with its flute melody. Dexter and Awanto3 also team up to deliver two further mixes, one dubbed out funky roller with a spring in its step, and the other with a surprising ghetto flavour. As ever with Clone Royal Oak this is about 100% better than almost all other house records out there, and comes highly recommended!
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ROYAL 14
11 Mar 13
Funky/Club House
11 Mar 13
Funky/Club House
Review: Last seen dropping the humongous Klinsfrar Melodies on Creme Org back in 2010, Glaswegian producer Marco Bernardi makes a triumphant return on Clone's Royal Oak initiative with The Burning Love Ensemble, a 12" replete with three potent examples of drenching simple, raw drum machine rhythms with endless layers of emotional melodies. The contemplatively titled "Days Gone By" infers what is to unfold as the track's ruff edged drum groove is driven ever backwards in the mix by layer upon layer of intricate sonic detail which is finely poised at the point of full meltdown. The title track seems like a more streamlined affair initially, all melodic elements aimed squarely for the stars before Bernardi lets loose with a thick square analogue bass tone and the drums start to go mental. Finally, "La Montagne De Reves" delves swiftly into immersive dream like territory, dragging you down willingly!
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ROYAL 12
10 Jul 12
Deep House
10 Jul 12
Deep House
Arttu feat Jerry The Cat
Played by: Adam B (Homegrown Music), Shadow Dancer, Henri Kohn, Alkalino, Juno Recommends Deep House, DIONIGI, Djs: Most Charted - Deep House, Tom Trago
Review: Sometime Philpot and 4lux artist Arttu arises on the Clone imprint for the first time - and the results are just as good as the Rotterdam label's preceding output this year. Presented as the results of some spontaneous studio jams with Detroit artist Jerry The Cat, there's an undeniable sense of fun to both tracks here. Lead track "Nuclear Funk" is loose limbed analogue house at its finest, with rough hewn drums and a delightfully elastic bassline soon joined by Jerry's inimitable improvised refrain and lolloping percussive textures. "Get Up Off It" is altogether more scattergun, with gleefully disjointed drum machine rhythms raining down on the gloopy analogue bass line before a heavily delayed Jerry The Cat comes to the fore.
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ROYAL 11
09 Dec 11
Deep House
09 Dec 11
Deep House
Played by: Martin Haberland, Shadow Dancer, Dirt Crew, Alkalino, Juno Recommends Deep House, Sccucci Manucci, Musumeci, Bilanez Music, Seth Troxler
Review: Clone's Royal Oak offshoot has barely put a foot wrong since launching in 2009, providing open-minded deep house/disco/electrofunk heads with quality material from the likes of Space Dimension Controller and the hotly tipped Genius of Time. Here they give a Royal Oak debut to Dutch duo Morning Factory, who previously impressed on 2020 Vision. "Fantasy Check" is something of a slow-burning delight - an emotion-rich soup of gently cascading jazz pianos and sparkling chords that sounds like a long-lost Ron Trent production. "Diane's Love" is more densely layered percussion-wise, but still finds space in the building mix for some cute melodic touches and a delightful spoken word vocal.
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ROYAL 09
15 Jun 11
Deep House
15 Jun 11
Deep House
Played by: Lee Daley : Nordic Trax/ContentMCR, Julian Sanza, Tomson, The Revenge, St Plomb, Shadow Dancer, Crackazat, Mike O'Mara, Dirt Crew, Alkalino, Femanyst, Juno Recommends Deep House, Seuil, Sven Tasnadi (Moon Harbour), G-Blaster (Memorie Cluster), Phasen, Weedyman, Djs: Most Charted - Deep House, Julien Sandre, Mosaik, Ben Pearce
Review: After two auspicious releases on the Swedish label Aniara Recordings, production duo Genius Of Time step up to Clone's Royal Oak series, previously graced by the likes of Space Dimension Controller, Reggie Dokes and Gerd. Taking this esteemed company into account, we don't take it lightly when we say this record is as good as anything we've heard in the Royal Oak series, with "Drifting Back" a jazzy house delight with softly pumping chords making for a jam that wouldn't seem out of place in the KDJ back cat. It's the two following tracks, however, that contain the real heat. "Houston We Have A Problem" combines calming synths, vocal moans and rolling percussion to breathtaking effect, while "Juxtapose" could almost be David Kennedy in house mode such is the tough, raw drum programming, but Genius Of Time add some softly soaring strings, thus imbuing the track with a nice classicist bent.
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ROYAL 07
16 Mar 11
Deep House
16 Mar 11
Deep House
Played by: Alphabet City, Mag Spencer, Gareth Cheshire, Sean Gormally (Love the Bomb), YAM WHO?, Maelstrom, Dj steef, Shadow Dancer, Deepchild, Conor, Juno Recommends Disco, Chamboche, Spring Chart, Heidi
Review: If young Belfast producer Space Dimension Controller aka Jack Hamill is yet to wander across your musical radar it's likely you will be paying attention after listening to Journey To The Core Of The Unknown Sphere. Vintage Warp sounds collide harmoniously with g-funk vibes and early 90s Detroit melodies on music Hamill refers to as "Galactic Funk". The many elements of opening track "Journey" are so bewitching it requires several repeat listens to fully appreciate the richness. "Cosmo30 Travel Duration" combines gargling elastic bass with soft Detroit kicks which are slowly digested by Hamill's increasingly wigged out synth melodies. SDC is currently working on tracks with Kyle Hall, and ahead of that the Detroit wunderkind remixes "Journey" into a fuzzy discotheque groover which sounds nothing like any of his other remixes. The slo mo future boogie of "BD Alignment" and journey into ethereal chord expression on "Fluorescent Trails" make this an astounding EP.
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ROYAL 04
06 Jul 10
Disco/Nu-Disco
06 Jul 10
Disco/Nu-Disco
