Review: Kolja Gerstenberg is a 24 year old producer from Leipzig Germany that's had releases previously on top deep house imprints like Quintessentials, SUOL and Smile For A While - which gives you a strong idea of where his sound is coming from. Up next on promising London based imprint Monologues, he serves up three fine examples of Berlin styled deep house on the East Shake EP. From the sunkissed, hip-hop inspired MPC deepness of "Erdball", to the funky breaks of "Muffsound", or "Herber 660" with its sexy late night groove complete with jacked vocals for added effect. A bonus remix comes in the form of G Markus' early '90s UK rave rendition of "Muffsound" which was killer!
Review: Virginia-based Greg Stewart once again dons the now familiar DJ Aakmael guise for a first outing on Monologues. Predictably, the sometime Church, Dimensions Recordings and Freerange contributor is at the top of his game throughout, delivering a pair of highly playable original tracks. First up is "Dahlin", a wonderfully melodious and floor-friendly affair in which Stewart demonstrates his ability to create drama out of a handful of killer loops (think strings, harps, and so on). He flips the script a little on "Organik", wrapping positive synthesizer chords and meandering Hammond organ solos around no-nonsense drums and a killer analogue bassline. Both tracks are given the remix treatment, too, with Ben Gomori's sleazier, early morning tech-house tweak of "Organik" standing out.
Review: France's deep house scene seems to be in rude health right now. Bordeaux-based Leon Revol may not be the highiest profile of Gallic producers, but his track record is nonetheless impressive. Here he returns to the home comforts of Monologues following a recent outing on Future Disco. He begins with the sun-kissed, bossa-tinged jazz-house loveliness of "Pink Coffee" - all Pat Metheny guitar flourishes, gentle Afro chants and Nicola Conte-goes-house drums - before wrapping spine-tingling piano motifs around a rolling groove on the delicious "Embers". "Sun is the Place" sees him saunter into the sunlight in the company of woozy synths and yearning deep house drums, while "Birds" effortlessly joins the dots between contemporary French deepness and the '90s Italian dream house movement.
Review: London's Danvers is part of the Wotnot music family, has a Monthly show on HoxtonFM and if that was not enough: is one half of Bristol duo Summits. He appears for the Monologues label with They Don't Program Themselves; three servings of quality deep house goodness as displayed on first track "Keep Right On" with its dusty shuffle supported by some soulful, sampled, R&B vocal work. It's a classic deep house featuring emotive elements such as a bouncy bassline, swirling rhodes and a thumping 808 beat on "Blind Method" while the title track is a slowed down and sexy R&B jam which we really enjoyed.
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