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Crosstown Rebels
Review: Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons' Message From The Other Side LP was released back in 2015 but is still riding on its resounding success, this time in the form of several tracks receiving some stellar remixes. Obviously there were the ones for the singles "Vermillion" and "Lovers' Eyes (Mohe Pi Ki Najariya)" but now comes Remixes From The Other Side Part I. Lazarus has called in hot Tel Aviv duo Red Axes to makeover the title track and it's as sweet as you can imagine with its combination of punk funk, psych rock and nu-disco. The now legendary Acid Pauli also steps in to remix said track and his rendition is a deep and sexy serving of low slung and bassline driven deep house. Finally Disco Halal main man Mehmet Aslan does over "Lovers Eyes", delving into some sublime and exotic Middle Eastern flavour.
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CRM 157
29 Apr 16
Deep House
29 Apr 16
Deep House
Review: Crosstown Rebels boss Damian Lazarus seems to be mellowing with age - or at least getting more artistically adventurous. This follow-up to his 2009 debut, Smoke The Monster Out, was co-produced by Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford in LA. London and Mexico, with the assistance of an impressive cast of musicians from around the world. While rooted in the kind of tactile house and techno most associated with the evergreen hipster, Message From The Other Side is impressively psychedelic, otherworldly and stargazing in outlook. The album's woozy, horizontal appeal is therefore enhanced by Lazarus and Ford's use of Indian instrumentation, African percussion and impeccable keys-work from American jazz pianist Eric Lewis.
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CRMCD 029
18 May 15
Deep House
18 May 15
Deep House
Review: 14 years in the making! Krust's follow up to 'Hidden Knowledge' is every bit as diverse, uncompromising and explorative as you'd hope. Blurring the lines between jungle and techno, your brain and the dancefloor, time and space, across the collection the Bristol pioneer takes us to some strange and singular places; the tension and sci-fi isolation of 'Known Truths', the swaggering space funk of 'Keter The Heavenly', the marching drama and powerful sense of foreboding on 'Negative Returns', the blitzkrieg amen-shattered opener 'Hegel Dialectic', the list goes on. Each cut building and merging to create a truly unique landscape that offers up something new on every investigation, it'll take another 14 years to unravel this album's many mysteries. Essential.
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CRMLP 044D
06 Nov 20
Drum & Bass / Jungle
06 Nov 20
Drum & Bass / Jungle
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Young Berlin-based Spanish producer Max Guardans, AKA Tibi Dabo, returns to his semi-regular home of Crosstown Rebels with a four-track EP that should help keep fans going while they await his rumoured forthcoming debut album. Dabo's work to date has spanned a range of styles, but this EP comes from that nebulous zone where deep and progressive house collide. The title track is a hazy, dreamy affair riding a dubwise rhythm, 'Komorebi' is more your standard issue eyes-wide-shut euphoric workout, while NYC legend David Morales provides two remixes of the latter: a 3am-friendly Red Zone Remix and a more Afro-leaning Diridim Mix.
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CRM 237
03 Jul 20
Deep House
03 Jul 20
Deep House
Review: Alinka last appeared on Crosstown Rebels in 2016 with Shaun J Wright for Face The Truth, and now she returns in solo mode to the label with this diverse two-tracker. "Control Transmission" resounds to tough kicks and a humming bass that underpin out-there vocal samples and humming static sounds. It makes for a fittingly offbeat take on tech-house. "Day Zero" is slightly more conventional: based on a pulsating electronic bass and powered by doubled-up claps, it sees the Chicago producer fuse frequency-shifting tones with mysterious vocal samples to deliver a powerful slice of electronic disco.
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CRM 238
24 Jul 20
Techno
24 Jul 20
Techno
Review: Italy's Francesca Lombardo saw her debut on Crosstown Rebels back a few years ago, and the artiste returns to the mighty imprint with a fresh four-tracker for the body and soul. "Perseidi" is a hypnotic shot of house psychedelia that flutters away amid fuzzy low frequencies and rattling percussion twists, a tune that's backed by a remix from Transmat's Aril Brikha who jacks it up and adds in a fine layer of sci-fi Detroit vibes. "Uttermost" is a little funkier and bouncier thanks to its wavy chords, while "Tulips On Mars" goes deeper into cyber space with its cinematic bassline and spacey pads. Hot stuff, this!
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CRM 145
14 Aug 15
Minimal/Tech House
14 Aug 15
Minimal/Tech House
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CRM 271
13 May 22
Minimal/Tech House
13 May 22
Minimal/Tech House
Various
Review: Damian Lazarus' Crosstown Rebels imprint has been bringing some consistent quality over the last months, with releases by drum & bass legend DJ Krust and most recently Audiojack and Kevin Knapp's "These Days" which came with a killer remix by Pearson Sound. The label is now into the fourth edition in the SPIRITS compilation series, with highlights coming from Radio 1 legend Pete Tong teaming up with Italian tech house producer Alex Kennon on the slinky groove of "Apache", the ever reliable Francesca Lombardo with the mesmerising cosmic dancefloor journey "Freak On Sea" as well as Los Angelno pair Lubelski & Xkylar with the afterhours minimal shuffle of "Passion Fruits" and the Minus affiliated Matador with the lurking bass and moody atmospherics of "Vulture" - plus many more.
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CRMLP 045
26 Feb 21
Minimal/Tech House
26 Feb 21
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: This is the first release together for Tuskegee Music co-heads The Martinez Bros and Seth Troxler since "Space & Time" back in 2014. But as far as Crosstown Rebels is concerned, the Bros are making their debut here, and Troxler returning for the first time since 2011 when he collaborated with Art Department on "Living The Life". The result is "Play In The Dark" with its woozy after hours style of boompty business, immersed in swinging rhythms, dirty bass and ethereal chords. Troxler's Freak Mix is more of an introverted and heads down affair, which will hypnotise you into submission in the tradition of DJ Koze's classic "I Want To Sleep".
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CRM 248
05 Mar 21
Deep House
05 Mar 21
Deep House
Played by: Djs: Most Charted - Deep House, Paolo Madzone Zampetti, THINGS HAPPEN, Manhattan, F3, Fede Lng
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CRM 098
30 Jul 12
Deep House
30 Jul 12
Deep House
Various
Fur Coat - "Space Ballad" (feat Argenis Brito - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs remix) - (6:01) 123 BPM
Review: More than any other dance label, Damian Lazarus's Crosstown Rebels has a knack of signing timeless house music. It's evident on this, the second Rebel Rave instalment, with Guti & Dubshape's "Every Cow Has a Bird" offering a classic sound, as a disco groove unfolds to reveal rolling bongos and jazzy piano keys, or on Subb-an's "Misleading", a glorious deep house arrangement with a garage groove. However, there are also some excellent reinventions of the house style; Jamie Jones's "Summertime" reveals a darker side to deep house as a menacing bass surges to the fore; Quenum's "Woman Talk About Woman" features a crazy vocal freestyle over a jazzy groove and best of all, Art Department's "Without You" sounds like a dislocated, paranoid update on Nu Groove's bassy tracks.
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CRMCD016_DIGITAL2
21 Nov 11
Minimal/Tech House
21 Nov 11
Minimal/Tech House
Review: Following impressive outings on Gruuv and Knee Deep in Sound, Leeds-based tech-house stalwarts Audiojack return to Crosstown Rebels for the first time since 2017. It's the long-serving production partnership's first release of the year and contains two typically on-point cuts. "Inside My Head" sees the duo doff a cap to fellow Leeds dance music royalty Nightmares on Wax via a heavyweight, bass-heavy peak-time workout that utilizes the same Cuba Gooding vocal sample as the veteran Warp act used on their 1990 cut "I'm For Real". As tribiutes go, it's rather good. There's a little more funk to the swinging tech-house/hip-house fusion of "Behind The Curtain", where rap samples and jammed-out electric piano lines ride a sweaty but rubbery groove.
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CRM 211
01 Mar 19
Minimal/Tech House
01 Mar 19
Minimal/Tech House
Italoboyz feat Durant (IT)
Review: It's taken a while, but finally Italoboyz Federico Marton and Marco Donato have been snapped up by Crosstown Rebels. Since it's a special occasion, they've also asked some of their pals to lend a hand. Alias collector Marco Zanin dons the Durant pseudonym to contribute to "Midnight Summer Dream", a driving, bass-heavy, percussively intense tech-house affair that rumbles, rolls, rises and falls for 14 mind-altering minutes. Yulia Niko remixes, stripping the track back to reveal restless analogue bass, swinging tech-house drums and a variety of trippy, echo-laden spoken word samples. To round off a suitably sizable single, Marton and Donato reunite with regular collaborator Blind Minded (AKA London-based Italian Giorgio Cadamuro) on a swirling, trippy, locked-in and undeniably loaded tech-house shuffler that runs to almost 18 minutes.
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CRM 210
15 Feb 19
Minimal/Tech House
15 Feb 19
Minimal/Tech House
Acid Pauli / Various
Review: The latest instalment of Crosstown Rebels' long-running Get Lost series comes from odd German deep house/tech house fusionist Acid Pauli, a man who looks more like a hairy Open University geology lecturer than a top-flight DJ. Reflecting Pauli's own style, the compilation's 41 unmixed tracks touch on shuffling, eyes-closed deepness, tactile techno, dream house and tongue-in-cheek silliness (the brilliant space-pop of "In My Spaceship" by Jan Turkenburg. More impressively, there are a string of previously unseen exclusives, including excellent tracks from Nicolas Jaar, Nu and Acid Pauli himself.
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CRMCD 020D
12 Nov 12
Deep House
12 Nov 12
Deep House
Damian Lazarus / Various
Review: Crosstown Rebels head honcho, Damien Lazarus, has taken it upon himself (and his crew) to mark the "cosmically significant" date of December 21 with a 24-hour megaparty in Mexico. For those of us unable to attend in person, this accompanying compilation is the next best thing. Beginning with Pier Bucci's fittingly titled, and deliciously trippy, "Mayans", we get the exotic and trancey "The Prophecy" by Quenum, Matthew Jonson's sinister tech-houser "In Search Of A New Planet With Oxygen", the sublime "Cosmic Dancer" by Francesca Lombardo, the urgent menace of "Greed Insanity" by Fur Coat and the haunting, end-of-the-world vibes of "2012" by Jay Haze.
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CRMCD 021
03 Dec 12
Deep House
03 Dec 12
Deep House
Review: In something of a surprising move, Sergio 'Delete' Munoz's Fur Coat project returns to Crosstown Rebels with a former member of UK girl group All Saints in tow. Mel Blatt makes all the right moves for a sterling house vocal, keeping the soul piled on thick, while Fur Coat's production makes for a dextrous ride through intricate, textured deep house peppered with found sounds, dusty vinyl rips and an addictive rubbery bassline. DJ Sneak is backing things up with a classically bumping remix that leans on his usual funk licks and splashy hats for the heat of the night, while Just Be head into a more psychedelic territory peppered with colourful synths, but anchored by a humming pad that sits underneath the charming sonic decoration.
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CRM 107
18 Feb 13
Deep House
18 Feb 13
Deep House
Played by: DJ VIVONA, Pan-Pot, Djs: Most Charted - Deep House, Droog, Resident Advisor, Maceo Plex, Tiefschwarz, Ordep Zerep
Review: Hot Creations boss man Jamie Jones resurfaces on the Crosstown Rebels label with his first solo transmission of the year, the rather fruitily titled Moan & Groan. Filled to bursting point with all the typical Jammy Jones production points - think bouncy groove, irresistible drops and hushed deviant vocals - "Moan & Groan" arrives just in time for the summer slog on the Croatian coastline. It's complemented by two remixes of "Tonight In Tokyo" - one of the secret weapons Jones included on last year's Crosstown Rebels album of sorts Tracks From The Crypt - from Breach and Cassius. Ben Westbeech's darker alias teases out some deep basslines for his rework whilst veteran French duo Cassius are on altogether more epic form.
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CRM 111
10 Jun 13
Deep House
10 Jun 13
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House, Pan-Pot, Rony Breaker, Resident Advisor, LeSale, Jack Fell Down, Tiefschwarz, Umut Akalin, Kolombo, Modern Math Recordings, Natural High
Review: Bringing one of those vocals that will be nagging in the noggin long after the lights have come up; Ali Love and Kali are in prime pop-picking mode with this new single on Crosstown Rebels. The structure of the track is still in keeping with the label's slick take on house music; while the vocals intone a message of massaged ego that translates smoothly to Waze & Odyssey's more brooding remix. Maceo Plex comes in with a more romantic vision for the track, laying out thick reams of synth in a seductive late night style that can bleed outwards to fill a space large or small.
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CRM 108
01 Apr 13
Deep House
01 Apr 13
Deep House
