Review: Next up from the ever-ready Hot Haus team, a jumpy collection of rollers from FAFF & Ugly Drugless, with a truly magical feeling throughout. We open up with icey pad textures and glistening arrangements of 'Mrs Feet Fingers', a steadily progressing star-scape of glistening hats and tidy acidic basslines, with the breaks-driven squeaks of 'Crappy Hardcore' then following in close pursuit. From here, Ugly Drugless arrives in collaboration, firstly on a steadily bopping sub skips of 'Ugly & Sad' and then on 'I Love Music', an adventure of an original, sliding between Eva Roisin's sweet vocal samples and booming acidic slaps to match. Awesome work!
Review: Born in London but raised in Florida, Storm Mollison is definitely making some waves right now: Eats Everything is a big fan, apparently, and she recently became a contributor to the Fabric podcast series. This latest outing on London's Hot Haus Recs certainly won't hurt her growing reputation any, either. 'Dirty Dance' itself is a big room stomper that has an almost electrohouse-y way with jagged edges and attitude-y vox, all underpinned by a big, buzzy bassline. If you're looking for something a lil' more sultry and sophisticated, though, then aptly named deep houser 'Float' will see you right for sure.
Review: Following up great release by the likes of Daws, Daffy and Wave Particle, Hot Haus Recs chief DJ Haus returns for two scorching house bangers. First up is "Hot City Bass" which is a swing-fuelled jackathon with a strong nod to New York City legend Todd Terry, while the late night mood music of "Sweat" again channels the classic sounds of Stateside '90s with an addictive vocal, M1 keys and garage rhythms. All you need right here!
Review: Toolroom Records regular Lee Mortimer dons his now familiar Friend Within guise and brings his boisterous brand of rave-igniting house to Unknown To The Unknown offshoot Hot Haus Records for the very first time. 'Skeleton' is a particularly potent workout, with Mortimer wrapping looped bass, hands-aloft piano stabs and echo-laden organ riffs atop fiendishly big, bold and energetic beats. Throw in some pots-and-pans percussion solos, and you have a guaranteed peak-time anthem. Virtual B-side 'Running' is bustling and excitable, with all-action analogue bass, 'French Touch' style disco samples and saucer-eyed, warehouse-ready electronic motifs leaping above another energetic house grove. Like 'Skeleton', it's an unashamedly retro futurist treat.
Review: It's been a long time coming, but we couldn't be more excited to finally dive into a fresh new two-track display from UK bass heavyweights My Nu Leng, two of the most forward thinking producers to emerge from the UK during the original bass boom. We open up with a serious sizzler as '4ME' combines a bulbous selection of hard hitting bass bounces and stripped back drum chunks, linked with catchy vocal overlays and a smooth atmospheric backdrop for a tidy rave experience. On the flip to this, we hear a big bag of tasty drum processing and tight rhythmic designs, with pulsating kick drums fusing with grizzly atmospheric synthetics to give us another moody roller. Both of these spell a great return for the Bristol veterans, who we are sure are setting up for a very exciting 2023.
Review: British DJ producer Aaron Rutherford's latest EP on Hot Haus Recs is titled Changing Contrast and features four tracks ranging from heavy rollers all the way to emotional beauty. The Mancunian kicks things off with the slinky and hypnotic tech house of "Vision", followed by the moody peak-time cut "Retract", while the bass-driven and acid-laced "Gradient" goes for a late night vibe. Finally, the title track is aimed squarely at the main room dancefloor once again and features an infectious melody.
Review: As Hot Haus return with another fabulous four tracker, we see them welcome the emotive sounds of fleet.dreams, diving into a blissful display of harmonic understanding across some vibrant 2-step beats. We find this in action right away as the soulful vocal samples and nostalgic chord progressions of 'That Look' put us immediately at ease, with the more industrial breakbeat rhythms and jittering chord designs of 'U Been Lied 2' then switching direction rapidly. We then explore 'Feel Ur Fire', a more unorthodox arrangement, combining pitched down vocal lines and a packed out rhythm section for a bubbling journey, before the more dancefloor influenced designs of 'Temperamental' give us a smooth landing to conclude the EP. Lovely work!
Review: One of the week's more interesting house releases for sure, as Marseille-based Christophe Audoly - better known as Bwi-Bwi, and also as one-half of the duo M&C - blends old school and contemporary sounds to great effect. 'Up And Down' marries raw, jungle/rave-like drums to an organ line straight out of the Jersey garage playbook, while the title track would have sounded 100% at home on the early 90s rave floors where this writer earned his clubbing wings. Elsewhere, 'Wet Wax' heads a touch deeper and has a vaguely tribal feel, while the EP's completed by 'Sat Zone', a chunky, percussive cut underpinned by gorgeously warm bass.
Review: Since debuting on Roots For Bloom in 2018 via an EP of heady deep house delights, George Feely has divided his time between delivering 'Random Edits' on Random Mind State and serving up fresh material on Henry Street Music. 'X-Static', the title track from his first Hot Haus Records outing, is a pleasingly retro-futurist affair, withnr-of-the-'90s New Jersey garage organ stabs, synth strings and glassy-eyed female vocal samples riding a bubbly synth-bassline and crunchy machine drums. Feely steps things up - think fizzing riffs, high-register acid motifs, wild organ stabs and restless TB-303 bass - on 'Spicy Mistress', before offering up some chunkier, more thickset old-school house thrills on saucer-eyed closing cut 'I Just Want 2 Say'. Pleasingly tactile and smile-inducing fare all told.
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