Review: Used to be vinyl-only Jazz Cabbage imprint set up by Bordeaux's Strip Steve is on digital now with Joe Cleen for its second EP. The mysterious producer serves up some dusty and soul inflected deepness here. The emotive and infectious nu-jazz shenanigans of "Care While It Lasts" calls to mind Mark de Clive Lowe, while the (YGT remix) takes the track into sultry, late-night deep house territory that fans of London's Quintessentials label will surely dig. Then there's more energy on "Pink" with its MPC style sampled hooks from various jazz and classical elements, creating a hazy collage over some plonky minimal house beats. Finally, we get treated to another remix and this one is really on the money - the aforementioned Strip Steve hands in a stellar remix of said track. His "Inyard mix" pushes it to the limit on this loopy and funked up house jam that reaches near hypnotic moments.
Review: The brilliantly named Jazz Cabbage label makes its bow with an EP from little-known Slovenian collective YGT (short, apparently, for "Your Gay Thoughts"). As with previous label releases, the emphasis is on exploring the intersection between jazz and eyes-closed deep house. Check, for example, the rather wonderful opener "Uwtb", where alien synth lines and glassy-eyed chorus vocals rise above a sleepy but floor-friendly broken house groove and stoned jazz-funk bass, and the double bass-propelled quirkiness of "Mary Lou". Arguably best of all, though, is "Midnight Sun", an electric piano-sporting workout rich in rubbery slap bass and dusty drums. Steve Strip pops up to remix the latter, re-casting it as a heavy and punchy chunk of West London broken beat brilliance.
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