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Local Talk
Review: Two stalwarts of the Toronto house scene join forces with unsurprisingly classy results. Opener 'The Rain' is a stompy affair defined primarily by its prominent handclaps and gospel-style vocal: it's got energy to spare and if your feet aren't tapping to this, then you might want to double-check that you've actually got any. But it's 'Cry No More' that's the real killer, being a deep, rolling house workout sporting jazzy keys and two separate, sampled vocals: one a timestretched bite from The Supreme Jubilees' 1979 soul jam 'It'll All Be Over', the other male and spoken. Simply listing the elements involved doesn't really convey just what a quality cut this is, though, so check this one for sure!
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LT146B
22 Mar 24
Funky/Club House
22 Mar 24
Funky/Club House
Review: Brussells-based Krewcial (real name Pascal Garner) is famed for his original blends of disco and soulful house flavours, though on this Local Talk label debut he's tried something far more adventurous - specifically blending live jazz instrumentation and electronic house rhythms. It's a formula that works well, offering a tactile and pleasingly loose take on jazz-house that's far warmer and sunnier than most similar exercises. Check first 'Brooklyn Affair', where classic piano flourishes, jazzy guitar notes, dreamy pads and hip-hop vocal samples dance atop double bass and deep house beats, before admiring the jazz dancer-friendly bounce of 'Elaboritz'. Finally, he opts for a more authentic jazz-dance flex on 'Roll Call', whose spoken word vocal lists some of his most cherished musical heroes old and new.
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LT 145A
01 Mar 24
Funky/Club House
01 Mar 24
Funky/Club House
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: New York native and Barcelona resident Ralph Session (real name Ralph Rodriguez) brings his brand of house "heavy hitters" to Local Talk for the first time. He begins a strong label debut with 'BQE', a thumpin', moody and sweat-soaked mix of Kenny Dope style drums, dark string stabs, wide-eyed vocal stabs and Horror movie chords, before creating spine-tingling sound worlds and hands-in-the-air moments on the grandiose brilliance of 'Can You Lie'. 'Keep On' is a jazzier and warmer slab of deep house goodness, while 'Dance With You' is a stab-happy late-night box jam that should appeal to all those who appreciate classic-sounding US deep house.
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LT 144
16 Feb 24
Funky/Club House
16 Feb 24
Funky/Club House
Review: Since making his debut on Mister Saturday Night a decade ago, Keita Sano has racked up releases on such esteemed imprints as Delusions of Grandeur, Let's Play House, 1080 and Spring Theory. Here the Berlin-based Japanese producer makes his bow on another admired house stable, Local Talk. He begins in typically sweat-soaked fashion via the breathless lo-fi house beats, cut-up vocal samples, hissing cymbals and rubbery slap-bass of 'When Love Comes Around', before opting for a more intergalactic sound on sci-fi house jam 'Special Time'. 'Roll of Acid' is a surging slab of lo-fi acid house insanity, while 'Love You Mr Brooklyn (KS For You Dub) is a bubbly, intoxicating and mind-mangling early morning stomper.
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LT 142
15 Dec 23
Funky/Club House
15 Dec 23
Funky/Club House
Review: If first-gen house and techno are your bag then don't sleep on this excellent EP from Oliver Siebert and Stefan Braatz, AKA Acid Jerks: it's got vintage flavas seeping from every pore. The EP opens with 'Shades Of Grey', which combines Detroitian strings and a 'French Kiss'-like bass throb. 'Wheels Of Fortune' and 'Rise Up' then look to early Chi-town deep house from the likes of Ron Trent and Larry Heard for inspiration, before 'Ace Of Spade' plays us out and finally answers the question, "What would acid house sound like it had been invented AFTER the Jet and Zip effects on Pioneer DJ kit?". Jack your body!
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LT 139
17 Nov 23
Funky/Club House
17 Nov 23
Funky/Club House
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: Local Talk's celebration of the '90s house-inspired corners of its now vast catalogue continues, with the much admired Swedish stable serving up 12 tidy tracks from a mixture of rising stars and scene stalwarts. It begins with the tactile, sunrise-ready wonder of Sean McCabe's '6AM Dub' of his own superb 'It's My Life', and ends with the densely layered, loop-powered disco-house rush of Circulation's 'The Return (1997 Mix)'; in between, you'll find an array of highlights including Dirtytwo's 'Moody' (an on-point Mood II Swing tribute), the deep, Italo-house style colour of Willie Graff and Tuccillo's 'Sunday Morning', the vintage Kerri Chandler-esque bump of Tom Noir's 'Feel Me' and the rolling warmth of Art of Tones' 'Dirty Stories'.
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ISH 007
27 Oct 23
Funky/Club House
27 Oct 23
Funky/Club House
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: Local Talk has always been good at offering up themed compilations showcasing different aspects of the label's output. The latest, as the title suggests, offers up some seriously good nuggets - mostly made in recent times - that draw huge inspiration from house music of the 1990s. There's much to admire throughout the 12 tracks on show, from the undulating TB-303 bass, sparkling piano motifs and glassy-eyed pads of Deymare's '1990' and Gerd's terrific 'Deep Mix' of Mateo & Matos's Masters at Work tribute 'Maw Basics', to the organ-rich roll of Terrence Parker's 'Unconditional' and the breakbeat-driven deep house funkiness of Kiko Navarro's 'Dope High'. Kyodai's 'Breaking (90s Dub)', a mid-90s NYC meets New Jersey style gem, and S3A's breathless 'Sleepness 909', are also superb.
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ISH 005
29 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
29 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
Review: Dan Tenor-City and Tom Funk make their debut on Local Talk with their track Close To The Source - featuring bumps from seasoned nightlife veteran Ricoh, aka Paradise Garage, Body & Soul and 718 Sessions legend. With looped strings that evoke memories of a true Moodymann classic, "Close To The Source" blends the raw essence of 70s disco and funk with the early sounds of '80s proto-house and free wheelin' jazz. The ceilings aren't drippin' with this one but it's hot hot hot. French act Art Of Tones somewhat dub out the original and dust up the beats while allowing the pianos to run wild - whereas the P.P.A Warehouse dub delves into classic deep house territory that's heavy on the bass and pumping in rhythm, allowing fat grooves to hold down the jazz tropes, and rhode keys to boot.
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LT 137
11 Aug 23
Funky/Club House
11 Aug 23
Funky/Club House
Various
Review: Given the title, and artwork that pays homage to the 'House Sound of Chicago' comps, you'd be forgiven for expecting this to be an album full of slavish recreations of late 80s acid house - but you'd be wrong. That's not to say there aren't plenty of 808/909 beats and squelchin' 303s contained herein, because there are - in places. But 'Jack-Ish' has far more to offer than simple pastiche, because there are also nods to the rave era (check the vox on 'Monster Munch'), to the speed garage days (Theo Walbeck's opener even biting Jodeci's 'Freak 'N' You', the MK mix of which helped birth the style), to Chicago's Cajual/Relief-led 'second wave' (Cuthead's 'Fuck That Shit') and more. This is a love letter, in other words, not to a brief moment 35 years ago, but to house music more generally in all its wild, wonderful jacking glory. And you need it in your life.
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ISH 004
23 Jun 23
Funky/Club House
23 Jun 23
Funky/Club House
Played by: Mr Brainz, Juno Recommends Funky House, Juno Recommends UK Garage, Ashley Beedle, Phonetix, Dan Speed
Review: Coming up next from the fabulously innovative Local Talk team, we have a wicked 2 track display of sumptuous summer-driven brilliance, showcasing the stunning sounds of Envee with a pair of vibrant creations. We open up with the jazz-infused arrangement and glittering backdrops of 'Styrax', a gorgeous display of sonic colour, working together moogish bassline action with progressive keys and potent drum chops for a joyous journey into sound. On the flip to this, we see a legend get to work as Zed Bias steps in for a fun-fuelled remix, overhauling the track into a skippy garage number, perfect for barbeque season as the summer sun beats down. Awesome work!
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LT 133
16 Jun 23
UK Garage
16 Jun 23
UK Garage
Review: Those who like musically expansive, jazz-funk influenced deep house loveliness should already be aware of Thomas Laroye's slim but impressive catalogue, which includes notable outings on Freerange and Atjazz Record Co. Here the French producer delivers his debut album, an inspired eight-track set that perfectly encapsulates the summery, sun-soaked excellence of his work. Expect soulful songs, broken house beats, kaleidoscopic jazz-funk and boogie synths, mazy instrumental solos and audible references to classic U.S garage and New Jersey house. Highlights include (but are in no way limited to) Javontte hook-up 'Let It Go', the shuffling samba-house flex of 'People Out There', the Kaidi Tatham-esque 'Grateful' and the synth solo-sporting heaviness of 'Get Down (The Moonfunk Dub)'.
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LTCD 018
26 May 23
Funky/Club House
26 May 23
Funky/Club House
Envee feat Ania Szarmach
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House, Juno Recommends UK Garage, Dave Mathmos, Danijel Kevic, Sean McCabe, Phonetix
Review: Next up from Local Talk, a sweet foray into shuffling garage flavours as the legendary Zed Bias touches down for a spot of remix duty, overhauling Envee and Ania Szarmach's awesome 'Sum Love' original. First up, we explore the full 2-Step mix, giving the vocal a ghostly new backdrop to navigate through, flanked by bubbling bass pulses and jittery melodic flickers, before taking a quick listen to the original version. We then explore the more dramatic melodic switch ups and glistening harmonic layerings of the Locally Talking 3nv33 mix, before diving into both the radio and instrumental mixes to round off. A good old fashioned garage remix pack, what more could you ask for?
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LT 129
19 May 23
UK Garage
19 May 23
UK Garage
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: On part two of the label's 13th anniversary compilation series, Local Talk bosses Tooli and Mad Mats serve up nine more previously unheard cuts from imprint artists and invited guests. As you'd expect given Local Talk's impressive track record, there's not a duffer in sight. After opening with a gorgeously warm, breezy and summery chunk of jazz-flecked electronic house by Wipe The Needle ('Light Years Away'), we're treated to an inspired mixture of sweaty, upbeat Latin jazz/house fusion (James L'Estrange Orchestra), speaker-bothering low-end wobblers (Damon Frost's accurately titled analogue jam, 'Dutty House'), piano-laden classic house excellence (Glenn Davis), dancefloor dub (Riddim Research Lab), Italian dream house revivalism (Aurelius), and much more besides.
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LTCD17B
14 Apr 23
Funky/Club House
14 Apr 23
Funky/Club House
Various
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: Label co-founder Mad Mats is at the wheel of this handy 'introduction to the soulful side of Local Talk', as the collection's subtitle puts it. While much of the label's catalogue is imbued with some level of soulfulness, the tracks showcased here are particularly righteous, emotive and life-affirming. It oozes soul from start to finish, with the many highlights including (but in no way limited to), the sun-soaked, Latin-fired soulful house shuffle of Coflo and Lee Wilson's 'Fool For You', the early Mood II Swing style warmth of 'Daydreaming' by Claes Rosen, the gospel-fired drowsiness of Art of Tones ('The Same Thing'), the energy-packed piano house motifs of Emvee's 'Gotta Work' and a fine New Jersey garage-goes-deep house revision of Soul Renegades' 'Speak To Me' courtesy of OPOLOPO.
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LTISH 03
06 Apr 23
Funky/Club House
06 Apr 23
Funky/Club House
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LT 125
10 Feb 23
Funky/Club House
10 Feb 23
Funky/Club House
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: Regular collaborators Coflo asnd Lee Wilson are no strangers to Tooli and Mad Mats' Local Talk label; in fact, this two-tracker marks their third appearance on the esteemed Swedish house label. They begin with the deliciously warm and confidently soulful 'Quiet', where Wilson delivers an impeccably emotional lead vocal atop a bouncy Afro-house beat, jaunty bass, lively organ stabs and bubbly electronic motifs. Add in some bonus percussion and drum machine hits and you have a sublime slab of 21st century dancefloor soulfulness. On 'Wait', the pair opts for an even deeper and dreamier sound, with Wilson's distant-sounding vocals weaving in and out of undulating electronic melodies, ocean-deep pads and some sublime melodic flourishes.
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LT 128
03 Feb 23
Funky/Club House
03 Feb 23
Funky/Club House
Various
Review: While Local Talk has always tended towards the deeper and more soulful end of the house spectrum, there's no denying the jazz chops of label co-founder Mad Mats and the imprint's penchant for jazzier house workouts. It makes perfect sense, then, that the Swedish DJ/producer would want to showcase that side of Local Talk's output with this tidy trawl through the back catalogue. It naturally contains a wealth of jazz-flecked, floor-friendly gems, with the many highlights including Vick Lavender's near 20-minute, Latin jazz-influenced 'Time Traveller Mix' of his own 'Shifting Gears', a deliciously warm, woozy and sub-heavy tweak of Coflo's 'Lux' courtesy of Kaidi Tatham, Kai Alce's 'St Germain does Detroit deep house' re-vision ofMunk's 'Hot Medusa' and Ron Trent's luscious take on 'Rising' by Kyoto Jazz Sextet.
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LTISH 01
14 Oct 22
Funky/Club House
14 Oct 22
Funky/Club House
Review: Fresh from delivering some jazz-funk influenced soulful house and broken beat flavours on Z Records, Lee Gomez AKA Wipe The Needle returns to Local Talk, a label he's been loosely associated with since 2019. The experienced producer immediately hits his stride with 'It's My World Ya Heard', a loose-limbed chunk of woozy deep house marked out by swinging beats, jazzy synth-bass and classic-sounding synthesizer chords. 'Would You' is a jaunty, soul-fired slab of samba-house loveliness smothered in futuristic jazz-funk synth sounds, while 'Fist of the North Star' is a sparkling, kaleidoscopic slab of heavily electronic broken beat/jazz-funk fusion full of subtle nods towards Motor City music and the hybrid works of Dego and Kaidi Tatham.
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LT117B
29 Apr 22
Deep House
29 Apr 22
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Broken Beat Nu Jazz
Review: Lee Gomez started producing jungle in the early '90s, but a chance meeting at a recording studio in 2005 was the birthplace of Wipe The Needle. With Mikael Nybom, they released on Slip'n'Slide, Deeply Rooted House and Raw Fusion but since 2013 it has been a solo endeavour by Gomez. He returns to Local Talk, taking up where he left off on the last release with more UK broken beat vibes on "Round Of Applause" featuring Aleysha Lei, which is backed by some off-kilter nu-jazz as heard on "Jack The Nitty" and the late night bounce of "Event Horizon".
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LT 117A
15 Apr 22
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
15 Apr 22
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Various
Review: Cast your memories back to 2011 and you'll find it was then that Peter Major, aka OPOLOPO made his debut on Local Talk with a presentation of Actual Proof. Having gone on to work with Toolroom Records, If It Ain't Jazz, G.A.M.M. and Vive La Musique since, Major has been invited back for the first time since 2019 to 'tweak' his personal favourites from the Local Talk back cat. This includes some rare numbers from Soulphiction and Jamie 326 next to some straight up remixes of Urban Sound Lab Presents Miss Yankey and Wil Maddams - alongside OPOLOPO & Actual Proof numbers "Silkworms" and dubby broken beat slice "Hubble".
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LTCD 016
26 Nov 21
Funky/Club House
26 Nov 21
Funky/Club House
Review: Man of the moment Felipe Gordon is in a rich vein of form right now, which each new week bringing a fresh batch of tracks or remixes. He's in the latter mode on Reworks, Volume 3, the latest volume in his ongoing series for Local Talk. He heads for 4AM heads-down territory on his fine revision of Marcel Vogel AKA EmVee's 'Brotherman Part 1', adding hazy, hypnotic riffs, sampled blues vocals and dazzling early morning synth stabs to a bass-heavy deep house beat. He channels the Colombian sunshine on track two, a colourful, retro-futurist house re-make of Corrado Bucci's 'No One Can Stop Us' that's full to bursting with bright piano riffs, tactile synth bass and sweaty, swinging drums.
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BEER006C
15 Oct 21
Deep House
15 Oct 21
Deep House
