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Dirt Crew Recordings
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
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: Since first appearing on Beat X Changers in 2015, Matthew Ferness has notched up tracks and EPs on labels including Fina, DOBRO, GLBDOM, Inhale Exhale and Hustler Trax. While that's impressive, we'd argue that this six-track set for Dirt Crew Recordings is his most high-profile outing yet. There's certainly plenty to admire across the EP, from the cinematic nu-jazz brilliance of title track 'High Expectations' and the sub-heavy, string-laden deep house heaviness of 'She's Too Misty', to the piano-laden peak-time warmth of 'The Ego' and the driving, ambient wrapped dancefloor loveliness of 'In Dreams'. Elsewhere, 'Covelant Bond' is a smoky blend of ambient and reverb-heavy nu-jazz, while 'I Might Have Been Wrong' pairs low-slung house grooves with decidedly melodious and atmospheric instrumentation.
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DIRT 145
16 Jun 23
Deep House
16 Jun 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
