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Dirt Crew Recordings
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Selection 2024, the latest compilation from this long-standing label, serves as a late-night treasure trove, delivering an eclectic mix of styles and moods to satisfy any dance music enthusiast. Clive From Accounts kicks things off with 'That Rhythm,' a melodic and string-laden blend of post-disco and house. Its feel-good, summery vibe creates a perfect balance of nostalgia and contemporary grooves. Ben La Desh contributes twice, first with 'Heel Goed,' a breezy, beach-inspired piece of tribal house. Relaxing yet lively, it carries a melodic, techy undercurrent ideal for sunset sets. He returns with 'Asanti,' closing the album with a lush and harmonious finale that feels both serene and satisfying. Moff & Tarkin bring a bold experimental edge with 'Show Up!"a sleazy, dirty track that fuses multiple styles into an unpredictable, creative cut-up sound. Rounding out the compilation is Los Latidos' 'Seeing Apparitions' (J. Peacock Remix), an acid-fueled stomper laced with late-night house chords and techy textures that will keep the energy alive during the early hours. Those are just some of the highlights. Selection 2024 is a cohesive yet diverse collection, offering something for every mood while spotlighting the label's continued commitment to high-quality, innovative electronic music.
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DIRTSLCT 24
13 Dec 24
Deep House
13 Dec 24
Deep House
Various
Review: The 20th edition of Dirt Crew Recordings' popular 'Deep Love' series is a biggie - not least because it is being released to celebrate the Berlin-based imprint's 20th birthday. Admirably, they've decided against making it a retrospective and instead have selected 15 previously unreleased cuts from artists who have joined the roster in recent years. Naturally, the quality threshold remains high throughout, with the included cuts exploring different colours of the deep house spectrum. For proof, compare the kaleidoscopic, jazz break-propelled beauty of Harry Wolfman's 'Pent Up', the intergalactic, ultra-deep hypnotism of The Revenge ('Positive Things'), the rolling deep house funk of Lorenz Rhode and Lukas Lehmann's 'Top Fuel', the sample-rich, dub-house fired dustiness of 'Danny's Tavern' by J Peacock, and the layered, morning-fresh beauty of Loz Goddard's 'One Very Lost Tape'.
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DIRT 155
08 Nov 24
Deep House
08 Nov 24
Deep House
Review: Dirt Crew Recordings has once again delivered a gem with Clive From Accounts' latest EP, Clive By Night. This three-track collection showcases the artist's versatility and his ability to craft deep house music that is both soulful and dancefloor-friendly. The EP kicks off with the uplifting opener, "That Rhythm". This smooth deep house roller is a perfect blend of US and French influences, with a heavy UK sub bass added for good measure. The chopped-up dusty samples give the track a nostalgic feel, while the infectious groove will keep you moving. "Maceo" is another standout track, offering a groovy instrumental jazz funk workout while the title track, "Clive By Night", is a deep and lush house number that showcases Clive's love for the 303 and Xpander. The track is perfect for late-night listening, with its evolving repetition and warm atmosphere. Clive From Accounts has once again proven himself to be one of the most exciting producers on the scene.
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DIRT 154
04 Oct 24
Deep House
04 Oct 24
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: J Peacock first rose to attention via a co-producer credit on Laurence Guy's 'Can't Find Her' back in 2022. Two years on, he's finally 'Found Her' - and is sharing the results of his search via Dirt Crew Recordings. The title track is undeniably delicious: a swelling, swinging and sub-heavy deep house workout smothered in spacey chords, drifting female vocal snippets and futuristic keyboard riffs. His love of intergalactic sounds resurfaces on the rolling and glassy-eyed 'Hold On Til Dawn', while 'No More Tears' sees him pepper a sturdy house groove with analogue bleeps, swelling strings samples and subtle disco flourishes. Fittingly, his old pal Laurence Guy remixes the latter track, re-imagining it as a dusty, loopy and spacey slab of deep house/tech-house fusion.
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DIRT 153
30 Aug 24
Deep House
30 Aug 24
Deep House
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DIRT 153S
26 Jul 24
Deep House
26 Jul 24
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Moff & Tarkin's latest release on DCR is an electrifying testament to Iceland's vibrant music scene. Currently based in Vienna, M&T delivers some hard-hitting acid and breakbeat rave anthems. Opening track, "Dry Paint" is an old-school acid house techno framework with catchy vocal samples to ignite dancefloors. Following this, "Boyhood" blends laid-back vibes with rave energy, offering a unique breakbeat experience. "Show Up!" shifts to an old-school 90s hip-hop feel, merging acid sounds and trance-y arpeggios over a solid breakbeat. Felix Leifur's remix of "Dry Paint" adds an exhilarating twist, turning it into a breakbeat frenzy. Where 'da' party at.
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DIRT 152
28 Jun 24
Deep House
28 Jun 24
Deep House
Review: While working on plans to celebrate the label's 20th birthday, Dirt Crew Recordings decided to reach out to Ben Le Dash, a producer whose last appearance on the imprint was almost a decade ago. In fact, his last release of any sort (prior to this one, of course) was back in 2015, so to say it's a surprise comeback is an understatement. The Rotterdam-based producer starts brightly with 'Heel Goed', a spacey-sounding slab of breakbeat-driven intergalactic deep house, before opting for a more immersive and tactile approach on 'Lift Adrift' and 'Fine Rise'. Jazz-fired house breaks and elongated pads catch the ear on the eyes-closer wonder of 'Asanti', while 'Expanding Signal' is a slowly unfurling voyage into blissful ambient house territory.
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DIRT 151
10 May 24
Deep House
10 May 24
Deep House
Review: Manchester-based Loz Goddard returns to the spotlight in celebration of Dirt Crew Recordings 20th anniversary (Dirt Crew Recordings - 20 years? No way!). It marks a comeback for the producer after a notable debut collaboration with Harry Wolfman in 2016. Known for his unique blend of electronica, deep soundscapes and lush and organic deep house, Goddard has graced labels like Oath, Razor N Tape and Church on his musical journey, presenting here for DT a captivating mini-album featuring beautifully crafted ambient and electronica pieces alongside three energetic tracks. Inspired by a night at the White Hotel in Salford watching Skee Mask, Goddard goes deep on six compositions, offering listeners a journey through a new age sound of house to prick the ears of Legowelt fans for sure. Big ups Loz!
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DIRT 150
22 Mar 24
Balearic/Downtempo
22 Mar 24
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: To begin the label's 20th anniversary year, Dirt Crew Recordings has decided to offer up a debut EP from young Mexican producer Rafael Cohen AKA Los Latidos. It's a quietly impressive collection of cuts all told, with each of the four original productions hitting the mark. Check first the pleasingly jacking and breathless brilliance of acid-flecked opener 'Always', before admiring the groovy bass, sustained organ chords and breakbeat house rhythm of 'Feeling Gratitude'. 'I Just Want U 2 Kno' adds D-Train style synth squiggles and spacey pads to a rolling deep house groove, while 'Seeing Aspirations' is a jazzy, sun-splashed, acid-flecked summer anthem in the making. J Peacock remixes that track, turning it into a more thickset deep acid wiggler.
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DIRT 149
09 Feb 24
Deep House
09 Feb 24
Deep House
Various
Review: It's the time of the year when labels look back on the previous 12 months and offer up handy retrospective compilations featuring the strongest cuts they've released in the last year. Dirt Crew's offering, which runs to 12 tidy tracks, is one of the strongest on offer. Starting with the rolling, string-laden sweetness of J Peacock's disco-house loop jam, 'Philly Track', the collection attractively sashays between acid-flecked positivity (the summery excellence of 'Time Is The Perfect Lover' by Love Will Say So), tactile boogie-influenced deep house warmth (Idan Hanna's 'Mountain Peaks'), glassy-eyed melodiousness (Petals In Sound's spacey 'Dial Tone'), immersive excellence ('In Dreams' by Matthew Ferness), jazzy piano house (Matthew Ferness's 'The Ego') and jaunty, uplifting, melody-rich nu-disco/house fusion (Steve Mill's 'Dye The Blip').
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DIRTSLCT 23
15 Dec 23
Deep House
15 Dec 23
Deep House
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: As the matter-of-fact title makes clear, Dirt Crew's 'The Remixes' series offers sporadic round ups of some of the finest reworks from the Dirt Crew vaults. As you'd expect, this third volume is full to bursting with floor-friendly revisions, with a mixture of rising stars, underground heroes and big hitters at the helm. Highlights include, but are in no way limited to, Clive From Accounts' lusciously loose and tactile deep house tweak of KaySoul's 'Behind One', KaySoul's ultra-deep broken house tweak of 'See The Morning Light' by Petals In Sound, Ron Trent's epic and awe-inspiring re-imagining of Ida Hana's 'Lo Fi Hi', Dampe French's boogie and jazz-funk influenced, break-driven remix of S3A's 'Fever', and Spirit Catcher's synth-heavy, acid-flecked re-wire ofPrudo's 'Ancora No'.
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DIRTRMXS 3
24 Nov 23
Deep House
24 Nov 23
Deep House
Review: From his studio in northern Italy, Love Will Say No has delivered an eclectic selection of releases. This pleasingly hard-to-predict approach continues on the 'Infidels EP', a varied but uniformly enjoyable mini-album that marks his second outing on Dirt Crew Recordings. He begins with ' Carry The Fire', a musically expansive affair in which bleeping melodic motifs and moody chords rise above a loose deep house groove, before injecting an acid-fired house rhythm with funky disco bass and sun-splashed pads on 'Time Is The Perfect Lover'. He then dashes between French Touch influenced loop-house ('You'll Know When'), extra-percussive space-house ('Gonna Summer'), and breath-taking piano ambient ('Red Window'), before finishing via the impossible-to-describe brilliance of 'The War is Finally Lost'.
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DIRT 148
13 Oct 23
Deep House
13 Oct 23
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Dirt Crew Recordings introduces the promising talent of J. Peacock with The Praying Kind EP - a captivating musical journey that marries nostalgia with dance floor dynamism. Hailing from Blackpool and steeped in Northern Soul and Manchester's music scene, J. Peacock, formerly known as Joel John, redirects his focus towards uplifting house music, inspired by both friends and cherished records from his father's collection. The EP commences with the infectious "Philly Track," a vintage house gem reminiscent of early '90s classics, invoking memories of the Parisian French wave and New York's filtered dance floor anthems. "Silk Road" delves into bass-heavy, UK-style house with tribal undertones and soulful vocal samples. "Midnight Standard" unveils a different facet of J. Peacock's artistry, embracing breaks and a dark, smoky club atmosphere. The EP culminates with the title track, "The Praying Kind," a dance floor monster building up to a thrilling breakdown.
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DIRT 147
08 Sep 23
Deep House
08 Sep 23
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: 15 months on from his last outing on the imprint, the fabulous Galaxy EP featuring a fine rework from the great Ron Trent, Idan Hana is back on Dirt Crew Recordings with more high-grade dancefloor deepness. The Los Angeles-based producer begins in fine fashion via the woozy, dreamy and tactile sun-down house of 'Mountain Peaks', before opting for a twinkling blend of gorgeous electronic melodies, tipsy bass and live-sounding breakbeats on 'Hidden Forest'. 'Rolling Hills (Break 3000 Edit)' is an attractive, acid-flecked slab of deep house loveliness, while 'Panorama' is a deep, soundscape electro shuffler. Closing cut 'Ma Kore', meanwhile, is a gorgeous ambient cut featuring waves of echo-laden synthesiser melodies.
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DIRT 146
21 Jul 23
Deep House
21 Jul 23
Deep House
Review: Following a single-track salvo last year that marked her production debut, Louise Baldwin returns to Dirt Crew Recordings with her first full EP. It's a quietly impressive outing all told, with the Liverpool-based artist outlining her analogue-rich, musically expansive take on deep house. She begins with the gorgeous, early morning sparkle of 'Dial Tone', where twinkling lead lines, cut-up vocal stabs and rush-inducing synth sounds ride a killer bassline and swinging machine drums, before opting for a classically deeper and more immersive sound on the deliciously loved-up 'Lush'. Baldwin then breaks up the beats a little on the hot-stepping, sun-splashed deep house warmth of 'The Sea and Everything In It'. To close out the EP, Pete Bandit douses 'Lush' in more layers of aural candy floss while making the groove altogether more heady and hypnotic.
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DIRT 143
31 Mar 23
Deep House
31 Mar 23
Deep House
Various
Review: As the title suggests, this action-packed, 15-track collection offers up a swathe of hand-picked remixes from the Dirt Crew Recordings catalogue. Presenting a range of complimentary takes on house music but rooted in the label's deep and occasionally disco-tinged philosophy, there's naturally much to enjoy. Our picks of a very strong bunch include the colourful nu-disco-meets-piano-house flex of Lorenz Rhode's revision of S3A's 'Clarence J Bootlicker', a gorgeous, glassy-eyed Balearic house tweak of Rhode's own 'And I Said' courtesy of Tensnake, Leaves and Iron Curtis's ultra-dreamy and tactile take on The Tortoise's 'Lost Forever', a squelchy and locked-in Motorcitysoul re-rub of Dirt Crew, and Nebraska's inspired rework of 'Peach Shuffle' by Damp? [sic].
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DIRTRMXS 2
03 Feb 23
Deep House
03 Feb 23
Deep House
Review: Under the Pete Bandit pseudonym, Peter Ridder has frequently collaborated with other artists on joint releases. Here the Dutch producer and sometime Times Are Ruff contributor gets a chance to showcase his solo productions via a full EP on Dirt Crew Recordings. Nelson of the East guests on opener 'Wild Feelings', a sparkling and vibrant fusion of wide-eyed deep house, tactile synth sounds and revivalist electrofunk colour, before Ridder adds sustained electric piano chords and jazzy synth-bass to a loose, languid and shuffling deep house beat on 'It's Happening Again'. 'Computer's Creativity' offers a near perfect balance between classically warming deep house, 'Seinfeld' style bass and jacking but jazz-flecked house beats, while 'Luv Your Body' had us pining for humid, open-air clubs in Croatia and star-lit boat parties.
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DIRT 142
18 Nov 22
Deep House
18 Nov 22
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Hot on the heels of a first appearance on Tensnake's True Romance imprint via the lusciously loved-up good time grooves of 'The Mistake', Steve Mill (real name Efstratious Milanos) notches up another label debut, this time for Dirt Crew Recordings. He starts in confident fashion with title track 'Love Attack', a bouncy, string-laden, disco-tinged deep house stomper blessed with a raw, heavy analogue bassline, before blurring the boundaries between '80s electrofunk and dreamy deep house on 'Make Me Feel'. He explores his disco and boogie influences further on the swirling, percussively impressive 'Next To You', before Lorenz Rhode provides vocal and instrumental takes on 'Love Attack' that drag it further towards '80s electrofunk/proto house territory.
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DIRT 141
14 Oct 22
Deep House
14 Oct 22
Deep House
Review: After six years of "rest" - and a decade since his last Dirt Crew Recordings outing - YOSA has finally returned to action. It's safe to say that the time off did the Japanese producer the world of good, because the Rainbow EP is a very strong release. The title track is particularly captivating, with Yosa adding psychedelic acid lines, rising chords, bubbly lead lines and sampled vocal chants to an extra-percussive, tribal-tinged deep house groove. It comes backed by two terrific Yok remixes - a chunky, Balearic goes-dub-disco 'Dub Around' version and the gorgeously deep, tactile and pitched-down 'Kitsune No Yomei' take - plus the sun-splashed, piano-laden house loveliness of 'Thermae'.
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DIRT 140
26 Aug 22
Deep House
26 Aug 22
Deep House
Review: Recorded after becoming a mother and relocating from London to the Merseyside coast, Petals In Sound's debut EP for Dirt Crew Recordings is a deliciously hazy, sunrise-ready collection of cuts that wraps fuzzy, analogue-sounding 21st century house grooves in immersive, enveloping sonic textures and slow-burn electronic melodies. It's an arresting and hugely enjoyable listen all told, featuring tracks that combine genuine dancefloor weight with the comfort and atmosphere of cuts designed for home listening. Our pick of a very strong bunch is the gentle, piano-laden wonder of 'See The Morning Light (Original Mix)', though the impeccable 'Citrus' - arguably a more far-sighted concoction - and KaySoul's shuffling, sub-heavy (yet breezy) flip of 'See The Morning Light'.
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DIRT 139
15 Jul 22
Deep House
15 Jul 22
Deep House
Review: Clive From Accounts is quite possibly the coolest Clive you'll ever meet, even though his real name is Richard. He's certainly been on entertaining form of late, following up a couple of killer EPs (on Outplay and Razor N Tape Reserve respectively) with a 12" single created entirely from Alan Partridge samples (really). He continues his fine form on this Dirt Crew label debut, opening with the immersive, atmospheric, tech-tinged deep house bliss of 'Pearls', which sounds like his take on some of Orbital's more picturesque mid-'90s tunes and features some lovely vocalisations from Jessica Roch. '4 Time' brilliantly joins the dots between the house-not-house brilliance of Metro Area and swinging jazz-house, while 'Rough & Tough' is a bouncin' and bumpin' slab of jaunty deep house joyful deep house jauntiness.
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DIRT 138
27 May 22
Deep House
27 May 22
Deep House
Review: Idan Hana's first two EPs were two of our deep house highlights of 2021. Naturally, hopes are high for the producer's first outing of 2022. Opener 'Moon Desert' sets the tone, with fluid, Frankie Knuckles style keyboard motifs and echoing organ snippets rising above loose-limbed deep house beats and a bassline so tactile and huggable you might want to take it home to meet your parents. Hana next combines undulating acid lines, ambient chords and hip-hop tempo machine drums on interlude style number 'Galaxy One Two Three', before opting for a deep, dubby, mid-tempo breakbeat/deep house fusion vibe on the impeccable 'Far From The Sun'. To round things off, Ron Trent delivers a magical, musically rich remix of previous release 'Lo-Fi Hi'.
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DIRT 137
08 Apr 22
Deep House
08 Apr 22
Deep House
Review: Confirmed label hopper KaySoul pops up on Dirt Crew Recordings for the very first time, with the South African producer bringing with him a trio of ear-pleasing, floor-friendly deep house gems. We're particularly enjoying opener 'Mr Ray in Cosmic', where metallic percussion hits, bleeping lead lines, a dreamy two-note chord progression and fuzzy analogue bass catch the ear. That said, both the extra-percussive, emotive and tactile 'UFO Frequency' and the bubbly, off-kilter lo-fi house number 'Behind One' are also impressive. Clive From Accounts offers up a fine remix of the latter track, turning it into an intriguingly swung, ultra-deep affair that makes the most of KaySoul's killer chords and gorgeous melodic elements.
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DIRT 136
11 Feb 22
Deep House
11 Feb 22
Deep House
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: It's that time of the year when labels look back on their releases and offer-up 'best of' collections. Dirt Crew's effort is relatively slender at just seven-tracks deep, but pleasingly high on quality - itself a reflection of the German label's strong 2021. After opening with the sparkling, humid and sun-kissed deep house warmth of Clive From Accounts' gorgeous 'Gravitate', the collection flits between high-grade sample-house pleasantness (Harry Wolfman), piano-laden, synth-bass-propelled goodness (Marcus Holder), jaunty early Floating Points revivalism (Idan Hana with Black Loops), percussive and bass-heavy hedonism (the thickset sounds of Love Will Say No), ultra-deep haziness (ReFelt) and garage-influenced early morning positivity (Dan Only remixing Clive From Accounts). Rock solid!
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DIRTSLCT 21
17 Dec 21
Deep House
17 Dec 21
Deep House
Review: If you've not heard of reFelt, don't worry - they're a deliberately "mysterious" outfit from Austria and this quietly confident outing on Dirt Crew marks their debut. They start as they mean to go on with title track 'Leisure Suite', where woozy synths and chiming melodies sashay in and out of staccato drums and fuzzy bass. 'Slosh' sees them successfully dip the tempo and focus the action around a beatdown style hypnotic groove with added Latin percussion, while 'Vista' is a gently jazzy chunk of soundscape deep house loveliness. 'Expiration Of Times', meanwhile, builds towards a breathless conclusion via an epic ambient intro, jazzy breakbeats, melancholic chords and some seriously deep sub-bass.
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DIRT 135
19 Nov 21
Deep House
19 Nov 21
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Earlier in the year, Idan Hana impressed via a debut EP for Outsiders that delivered a perfect balance between hazy dancefloor hypnotism and jazzy deep house. The producer's follow-up, a first outing on Dirt Cew Recordings, is similarly on-point. Hana first joins forces with Black Loops on the jazzy, trippy and crunchy headiness of 'Stam', before wrapping analogue bass, elongated chords and jazzy keys around a more intricate deep house beat on 'Peanut Crunch'. Elsewhere, 'Scale 4' is a sparse and alien chunk of deep electro, 'HWLM' is a maximal ambient excursion built around positive-sounding synth motifs and 'Lo Fi Hi' is a piano-sporting outsider house treat.
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DIRT 134
08 Oct 21
Deep House
08 Oct 21
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: If you like your deep house on the slightly more leftfield/experimental side then check for this four-track from Marcus Holder, a Berlin-based Australian house producer, saxophonist and former heavy metal guitarist. 'After' tops quite a funky, chugging bassline (hints of 'Ma Foom Bey' here) with otherworldly synths, 'WEH' takes us on a late-night ride into outer space, 'The Fluff' sounds a bit like what you might end up with if Kerri Chandler tried his hand at making a progressive house track, while finally 'Knee Deep' drops the tempo and could fit into more leftfield-leaning disco as well as house sets.
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DIRT 133
03 Sep 21
Deep House
03 Sep 21
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Given the multi-coloured dreaminess of the synthesizer chords on EP opener 'When This is Over' - a quick blast of immersive Balearic goodness - it's not that surprising to find that Love Will Say No is a new project from one half of Italian disco duo Fare Soldi. You'll find more blends of colourful dream house sonics and weighty dub disco elsewhere across the EP - see the driving but deep 'Days Of Nothing' and the more percussive and energetic 'We Are Choices'- alongside a spot pf luscious ambient acid ('Post Modern Ballad About You and Me'), some synth-laden Afro-tech (the really rather good 'Now Say Goodbye To Your Friends') and a Mauscovic Dance Band style psychedelic punk-funk workout ('She Likes Blood').
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DIRT 132
18 Jun 21
Deep House
18 Jun 21
Deep House
Review: As Clive From Accounts, Richard Day has previously delivered a handful of EPs for the likes of Outplay and No Brainer Records, all of which are vastly more fun than Excel spreadsheets, expenses forms and tax returns (though, to be fair, that's not a high barrier). He's at it again here via a Dirt Crew Recordings debut that adds spacey synth synths and electrofunk flourishes to a delicious deep house base. Our pick of a very strong bunch is opener 'Toucan', a gorgeous mix of intergalactic deep house tropes, undulating analogue bass and restless disco cowbells, though the more colourful 'Gravitate' and electro-influenced 'Altar' are also excellent. Dan Only remixes 'Toucan', re-framing it as a UKG-influenced, techno-tempo bumper full of deep sub bass, bouncy beats, warped electronics and deep space chords.
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DIRT 131
14 May 21
Deep House
14 May 21
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Harry Wolfman seems to save some of his best material for Dirt Crew Recordings, a label he first joined four years ago. There's certainly plenty to savour on his fourth EP for the long-serving German imprint, with the sometime House of Disco Records and Toy Tonics man sashaying between sparkling, sample-heavy deep house headiness (the sun-kissed treat that is 'Walk With Me', piano-and-strings-laden ambient bliss ('Phlosto Paradise' and Mona Vale collaboration 'Courage'), bass-heavy breakbeat house dreaminess ('Sly Contrast'), jazzy and loose-limbed downtempo beats (the Indonesian folk music-goes trip-hop flex of 'Workit Shep') and the pretty much impossible-to-pigeonhole immersive warmth of 'A21z'). An excellent EP all told.
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DIRT 130
09 Apr 21
Deep House
09 Apr 21
Deep House
Various
Played by: Kraak & Smaak, The Revenge, PBR Streetgang, Marcel Vogel, Dirt Crew, Juno Recommends Deep House, 25 Places, Nachtbraker, Fouk
Review: As its' rather matter-or-fact title makes clear, this 15-track opus gathers together some of the finest remixes released on Dirt Crew Recordings to date. It's well worth a listen, featuring as it does an attractive mix of loopy, bass-heavy hedonism (Nachtbraker reworking The Revenge), sumptuous NYC deep house warmth (the legendary Kerri Chandler adding a chunky new spin to Dam Swindle's Mayer Hawthorne hook-up), analogue-rich hypnotism (Mark E re-imagining Chymera), rushing brilliance (Strip Steve flipping Lorenz Rhode), jazz-house-goes-hip-house (Fouk re-framing A Bunch of Guys) and much more besides. We're particularly fond of the remixes by Morning Factory, Art of Tones and Jesse Futerman, though the quality and variety is so good throughout that picking out highlights is genuinely difficult.
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DIRTRMXS
05 Feb 21
Deep House
05 Feb 21
Deep House
Review: We were astonished to discover that the Sandpaper EP is in fact Lorenz Rhode's first solo single in two years. So was it worth the wait? We'd say yes. The title track in particular is superb, with blue-eyed soul man Jamie Lidell providing a typically brilliant lead vocal over a rubbery, hybrid electrofunk/house number full of jazzy electric piano riffs and pliable synth-bass. The track's boogie/synth-disco leanings are explored further on the accompanying Sound Support remix, which makes great use of a throbbing, arpeggio-style bassline and some shimmering chords. Elsewhere across the EP you'll find radio edit and instrumental takes, as well as the cheery, smile-inducing old-school house flavours of 'On The Nightshift'.
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DIRT 129D
04 Dec 20
Deep House
04 Dec 20
Deep House
Review: With this rock-solid EP, Dan Only (real name Danny Voicu) notches up his third annual EP on regular home Dirt Crew Recordings. The hardware-obsessed Toronto Native is naturally in fine form throughout, offering Decidious Dubs that make judicious use of a range of beat patterns, bass textures and colourful melodic refrains. Check first sparkling, dubstep-influenced broken beat number 'Gateway Shuffle', where pin-sharp synth lines dance above crunchy beats and rumbling sub-bass, before admiring the deep space electronics, dubby bass, spacey chords and building deep house drums of 'Terraforming'. Denser but bouncier house grooves are the order of the day on hazy late-night treat 'It's Inside You', while closing cut 'Macrodose' is a deep D&B cut of the sort that Good Lookin' Records once delivered on a regular basis.
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DIRT 128
23 Oct 20
Deep House
23 Oct 20
Deep House
Review: Somewhat confusingly, A Bunch of Guys isn't a group of men, but rather a new solo project from Utrecht producer Rob Scholtens, previously best known for being one half of DJ duo Pablo Discobar Soundsystem. He's clearly a talent, because this Dirt Crew debut is packed with high-grade treats. Our pick of the bunch is the jaunty, piano-laden jazz-house bounce of "Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em", a sweaty, percussive, piano-laden treat that comes accompanied by a sleazier, groove-focused rework from Fouk. Also impressive are "Filthy Rhodes", a pumping old school piano house number smothered in electric piano solos, and the drowsier deep house-goes-deep electro haziness of "Launch VII". In a word: excellent!
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DIRT 127
11 Sep 20
Deep House
11 Sep 20
Deep House
Review: Boat-based London producer Dampe has so far impressed with his output on Dirt Crew Recordings, which is crafted using a combination of dusty old hardware, live instrumentation and obscure, hand-picked samples. He's in good form on EP number three, too, kicking off a three-track excursion via the squelchy acid bass, bustling percussion, starry-eyed synth chords and fizzing electronic riffs of "Chak Wakk". The fast-rising producer flips the script entirely on "SE1 Bossa Nova", a deliciously lazy, hazy and relaxed affair in which languid jazz guitar solos ride a lo-fi drum machine bossa-nova groove, before adding steel pan style melodies to a deep two-step garage beat on inventive (and suitably sub-heavy) closing cut "Shadwell".
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DIRT 126
14 Aug 20
Deep House
14 Aug 20
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: We absolutely adored Ouer's previous release on Dirt Crew, spring 2019's "Stingray Nebula EP", so our hopes are naturally sky-high for this belated sequel. As befits their love of warm-sounding analogue hardware and improvised production techniques, lead cut "Homecoming" offers a hugely attractive mixture of loose-but-crunchy breakbeats, chunky bass, layered synthesizer chords and melodies so tuneful you'll probably end up humming them in the shower. If anything, the deep and rolling cut that follows, "The Long Goodbye", is arguably even better, in part because it builds attractively towards a suitably glassy-eyed conclusion. To round things off, they go in a deeper and jazzier direction via the ultra-deep haziness of "Morning Routine", which sounds like it was largely recorded in one take.
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DIRT 125
17 Jul 20
Deep House
17 Jul 20
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Simbad Stanislas AKA SMBD has released music on some terrific labels over the years - think Freerange, BBE, GAMM, Apron and City Fly, for starters - but this EP marks the first time he's appeared on legendary German imprint Dirt Crew. As you'd expect the quality threshold remains impressively high throughout. The London-based Frenchman first delivers tome string-laden, tech-tinged deep house bounce ("Piano Lick"), before successfully upping the tempo on the colourful and spaced-out "-8-". Groovy, organ-heavy deep house swing is the order of the day on "Glory", while title track "Purple Winds" is a sumptuous slice of atmospheric broken beat goodness. There's also a wonderfully symphonic bonus ambient cut tagged on the end of the EP, "Nan Madol".
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DIRT 124
05 Jun 20
Deep House
05 Jun 20
Deep House
Review: An artist long associated with the Dirt Crew label outta Germany, Harry Wolfman turns in the deep, dubby, sometimes ambient and discofied Always 3 EP. Across five tracks it dips into the blurry sunshine and water music of "Step by Step" to an uplifting and piano-active lead track "Speaking Raman". Softly distorted and floating jungle makes an appearance in "A Way You Come Home To Me (feat Christian Crow)" alongside some dirty yet polished electro in "Green Trees". A sweetly ambient title-track pulls at the strings of nostalgia in a EP that takes as much inspiration from Modern Love as it does Smallville or of course, Dirt Crew.
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DIRT 123
16 Mar 20
Deep House
16 Mar 20
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Perhaps the most impressive thing about Dampe's second outing on Dirt Crew is its subtle eclecticism. Compare and contrast, for example, the soft focus, ultra-deep electronica of superb opener "A Basement, Ten Years Ago", with the track that follows it, the dubbed-out, spaced-out deep house bliss of "727 And Arp Breaks (Original Mix)". It's a pattern that continues throughout the EP, with the Rhodes-laden ambient jazz of "Live Birds" making way for the synth-laden, two-step tech-jazz of "Garden" and the tropical dub shuffle of "France". The EP also boasts a fine remix of "727 And Arp Breaks" by Liverpool techno type ASOK, whose brilliantly re-imagines it as a hot-stepping slab of deep space dancehall.
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DIRT 122
11 Nov 19
Deep House
11 Nov 19
Deep House
Played by: PBR Streetgang, YAM WHO?, Juno Recommends Deep House, Dave Mathmos, BRENDON P, 80's Child, Problematic Disko
Review: Now that we've all had a chance to enjoy S3A's typically dusty and evocative debut album, "Pages", Dirt Crew has decided to offer up a swathe of fresh interpretations of tracks from the set. The standout mixes come from Art of Tones, who offers up 'Remix', 'Beats' and 'Dub' interpretations of "Friends" that brilliantly re-casts it as a synth-sporting chunk of loose-limbed jazz-funk/disco-boogie fusion. Nachtbraker gets his mitts on the same track and opts instead for a bouncy deep house revision rich in booming sub-bass, fluid synth motifs and garage-influenced drums, whole Lorenz Rhode turns "Clarence J Boddicker" into a string laden, synth-heavy house roller. There are also two contrasting takes on "Fever": a gentle, head-in-the-clouds downtempo version by Dampel French and a deep, druggy and driving peak-time deep house team from Felix Leifur.
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DIRT 121
23 Sep 19
Deep House
23 Sep 19
Deep House
Review: The Revenge brings his "Roar Groove" sound to Dirt Crew for the fourth time, in the process offering up a quartet of tried-and-tested deep house cuts. As usual, the synthesizer sounds are spacey, the basslines thickset and groovy, and the beats crunchy and on-point. We're particularly enjoying "Prizefighter", where Syclops style electronic motifs and woozy synthesizer lines peek out above a crunchy rhythm track, and the delay-laden intergalactic positivity of fluttering early morning deep house gem "We Have So Much We Can Gain". That said, opener "Like An Ending" is pleasingly deep, dubby and hypnotic, while "Work Out Right" is a glassy-eyed delight that makes merry with ear-pleasing samples from what sounds like a deep synth-pop gem from the 1980s (but don't quote us on that).
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DIRT 120
29 Jul 19
Deep House
29 Jul 19
Deep House
Review: Toronto resident Dan Only is renowned for the quality of his warm and groovy deep house productions, with the support of German titans Dirt Crew proving his "rising star" status. His latest EP for the long-serving imprint offers a five-track showcase for his trademark sound, where ultra-dreamy chords and dusty samples - think bluesy pianos, jazzy instrumentation and so on - envelop tough but tactile deep house grooves. There's plenty to excite across the five tracks, with highlights including the jaunty synth-bass and lilting Balearic lead lines of "Emulsion", the musically rich deep dancefloor hustle of "Someday (featuring AHKI)" and the sunrise-ready breakbeat/deep house fusion of "Breathe" and "What I Want".
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DIRT 119
24 Jun 19
Deep House
24 Jun 19
Deep House
Review: Fans of sample digging deep house maestro S3A take note: the producer has finally dropped his long-promised debut album on Dirt Crew. While there are a couple of subtle musical references to his hip-hop style beat-making past - see the blunted, off-kilter beat science of "Joint No. 5" and the drowsy mid-tempo dustiness of "Interlude For Marc" - the majority of the album has its sights firmly set on peaktime dancefloors. Amongst the plentiful highlights you'll find the swinging, leftfield jazz-funk/jazz-house fusion of "Greed", the fuzz-bass propelled stomp of "Fever", the funk-sampling heavy house genius of "Clarence J Boddicker" and the heady disco-house warmth of "Friends".
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DIRT 118
13 May 19
Deep House
13 May 19
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Debutant Dampe resides in South East London, making tracks that fuse distinctively UK influences - think broken beat, the resurgent British jazz scene, Britfunk and off-kilter bass music - with nods to African music and the comforting sounds and dreamy chords of high quality deep house. You'll find all this and more on this expansive first outing, whose many highlights include the gentle tropical deepness of the Floating Points style brilliance "Zongo Junction, At Night", the beat-less, slowly unfurling bliss of "Move Me" and the drowsy broken house brilliance of "Peach Shuffle". That track is also remixed by Nebraska, who beefs up the beats and adds some jaunty new synths while retaining Dampe's deep and intoxicating vibe.
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DIRT 117
18 Mar 19
Deep House
18 Mar 19
Deep House
Review: Some two years on from their last recorded output, improvised house and techno specialists Ouer (AKA Oliver Gehrmann and Xavier Hirsch) pitch up on Dirt Crew Recordings with a typically melodious and colourful collection of cuts. While they have included something tough, driving and distorted - see the percussive and mind-altering strut of "Inside" - for the most part the EP ripples withy sun-kissed instrumentation, heartwarming chord sequences, blissful electronics and loose, languid deep house beats. This blend is arguably best executed on the loved-up, guitar-flecked rush of "Undine", though many will naturally be drawn to the blissful, arpeggio style synthesizter melodies and glassy-eyed intent of sumptuous title track "Stingray Nebula".
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DIRT 116
11 Feb 19
Deep House
11 Feb 19
Deep House
Played by: Kraak & Smaak, Juno Recommends Deep House, 80's Child, Sould Out, Nightmares on Wax, Monte
Review: It would be fair to say that Lorenz Rhode's greatest asset is his reliability. He doesn't release all the much music, but what he does put out is always on the money. That's certainly the case here. Title track "Belair" is a chunky, dust-encrusted deep house thumper tailor-made for peak-time plays, while "Jubilee" sees him get even jauntier via wild Clavinet solos, punchy P-funk bass and crunchy disco-house drums. Elsewhere, Strip Steve re-imagines "On Top" as a quirkily swung, stab-happy chunk of MPC house madness, before Tensnake steals the show with a brilliant revision of "And I Said" that sits somewhere between turn-of-the-90s New York house and jammed-out jazz-funk madness.
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DIRT 115
03 Dec 18
Deep House
03 Dec 18
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: While he's also released on Bobby Donny and LaGaffe Tales, Felix Leifur's best material has often been reserved for Dirt Crew, a label he debuted on back in 2016. His latest missive for the German imprint is, as expected, pretty darn strong. Highlights include the alien chords, organic-sounding beats and woozy atmosphere of ultra-deep chugger "Hamburg 3011", the jazzy, early morning dancefloor sleepiness of loose-limbed broken beat number "Modern Soul Classics" and the horizontal drowsiness of blissful closing cut "Merlot 1988". Arguably best of all, though, is the chunky dancefloor pressure of jazzy deep house opener "Between Us", which reminded us a little of fellow German producer Soulphiction.
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DIRT 114
29 Oct 18
Deep House
29 Oct 18
Deep House
Various
Review: On their Deep Love 2018 compilation, you'll find label stalwarts to newcomers alike for respected Berlin imprint Dirt Crew. Their seventh compilation in the series, the label claims that it is the most complete in terms of sound and flow - and will blend in perfectly with that laid back, late summer mood. From moments of dusty and chilled-out deepness courtesy of Lorenz Rhode or Felix Leifur, lo-slung acid jams like Ponty Mython's "It's All Understood" or funked-up disco house like Frenchman S3A's "Modern Soul". Elsewhere, we have got the kind of slinky and sensual tech-house you've come to expect from the label - best exemplified by Canadian Dan Only or Jaxx Madicine's particularly sublime "Blue Bird". Essentially, it's more of the fine quality you've come to expect from this house music institution.
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DIRT 113
17 Sep 18
Deep House
17 Sep 18
Deep House
