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Review: On the 25th volume in the ongoing Phonica White series, long-serving nu-disco don Ron Basejam (AKA Crazy P co-founder Jim Baron) delivers three more musical reasons to be cheerful laden with colourful synth sounds, authentic disco instrumentation and dub disco inspired bass. Opener 'The Hurt Inside' is the epitome of deep, organic nu-disco - think two-step electro-soul beats, intergalactic synths, Nile Rodgers guitars, arpeggio-driven electronics and crunchy Clavinet licks - while 'Don't Bus My Aus' somehow manages to be deep, stripped-back and extra percussive, sounding a little like his take on Boyd Jarvis style early NYC house. Title track 'Music People', meanwhile, is humid and feverish, with distant vocal snippets, foreboding strings and darkened Italo-disco bass rising above evocative tribal beats.
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PHONICAWHITE 025
10 Jun 22
Funky/Club House
10 Jun 22
Funky/Club House
Played by: Hebdonis, FINGERMAN, Superbreak, Juno Recommends Deep House, Juno Recommends Funky House, Ash Reynolds, Fouk, Andy Buchan, Matthias Heilbronn
Review: Phonica White were waiting for the right track for Scottish producer Austin Ato's follow-up to 2017's Song For Mr Lewis EP. When they heard the sweltering disco inferno of 'When Love is Tender', they knew it was the one. With its classic Philly vibe complete with soulful vocals, funky bass, flanged drum loops and a roaring sax line - there's everything you need right here. For more late night mood music, Ato has you covered on the second offering "All Night Long" which again features a stirring string section, although things are much more low slung, complete with deep and dusty beats.
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PHONICAWHITE 024
04 Mar 22
Funky/Club House
04 Mar 22
Funky/Club House
Played by: Juno Recommends Minimal Tech
Review: Berlin-based Mancunian Christopher Iwatsu aka Keisuke merged his classically trained musical background with club sounds while studying in Glasgow - where he became immersed in the city's fertile club scene. After some self-released EPs, he's really hit his stride now with this one on Phonica White called the At Last EP, where he serves up four expressions in late night mood music exploring the deeper shades of house music. Lose yourself in the sensual and hypnotic shuffle of the title track, then get your head down and into the groove on the afterhours minimal bounce of "Going Nowhere" while the stripped back/less is more drums approach of "Hatsu" is equally impressive.
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PHONICAWHITE 023
28 May 21
Minimal/Tech House
28 May 21
Minimal/Tech House
Review: After making his name with suitably muscular EPs on Honey Soundsystem and The Bunker NYC, Justin Cudmore popped up on Phonica White in 2018 with two tracks of tech-house/acid house fusion. He's returned to his roots on this first outing for the London label since then, romping his way through sleazy and hypnotic big-room bounce (strangely addictive opener "Train Dance"), retro-futurist late night house sauciness (the foreboding, "Brown Album"-era Orbital electronics of "Club Fetish"), acid-fired, breakbeat-boasting sweatiness (the riotous peak-time fun of "Expectation Game"), and intoxicating late night disco-tech (the Dinosaur Junior beats, angular electronics and trippy samples of "Realize").
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PHONICAWHITE 022
18 Sep 20
Deep House
18 Sep 20
Deep House
Review: The London-based duo of Danvers and Warren Xclnce, better known as Kassian, return to Phonica White, who put out their 2018 sophomore EP Faux Polynesia, with three brand new house/garage slammers. 'Shufflin' Words' itself tops what are indeed shufflin' drums with a spoken male vocal snip, warping keys and a horn-like synth stab, while 'Ex-Culture' rides a muted 4/4 kick with reversed-sounding keys and all manner of micro-sounds, the dubby bassline not arriving till nearly five minutes in. The sparser 'U Make Me', with its Bobien/Stingily/Dajae-like vocal, then completes an EP whose stripped, off-kilter thump all round suggests there might be quite a lot of early Madhouse records in Kassian's collections...
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PHONICAWHITE 021
07 Feb 20
Deep House
07 Feb 20
Deep House
Review: Long-serving DJ Justin Cudmore has put out releases on labels that have been affiliated with his DJing such as Interdimensional Transmissions and the Bunker. However, he now widens his gaze with this debut on Phonica's White offshoot. Like those previous Eps and his own DJing, the sound of Chicago and in particular acid, looms large here. "Twisted Love" resounds to a rolling , drum-heavy backing, breathy vocal samples and some of the most tweaked, tripped out 303 lines known to humanity. On "About to Burst", the mood is not as intense, but Cudmore still manages to imbue the spiky, percussive arrangement with the type of wired acid action that will get spines tingling and pulses racing.
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PHONICAWHITE 019
09 Nov 18
Techno
09 Nov 18
Techno
Played by: Jimpster, DJ Mau Mau, Roberto Rodriguez (Manolo), Juno Recommends Deep House, Juno Recommends Techno, BRENDON P, Sould Out
Review: We're barely a quarter of the way through the year and it already seems like Peggy Gou is going to be one of house music's heroes of 2018. Here, the Berlin-based South Korean follows-up her brilliant Once EP on Ninja Tune (which included the soon-to-be-an-anthem brilliance of "It Makes You Forget") with a new EP for Phonica White (a label she first graced back in 2016). "Travelling Without Arriving" is a rubbery, sun-kissed deep house treat rich in elastic bass, toasty chords, glassy-eyed synthesizer melodies and dreamy, drifting electronics. Brooklyn beat-maker GE-OLOGY serves up a superb alternative version which retains the track's gentle positivity and breezy melodiousness while dragging it further towards futurist techno territory.
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PHONICAWHITE 018
27 Apr 18
Deep House
27 Apr 18
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Deep House
Review: Fresh from delivering a fine EP on Futureboogie Recordings, rising star Austin Ato pitches up on Phonica's occasional "White" series. Title track "Song For Mr Lewis" may well be the up-and-coming producer's single most impressive cut yet. An epic chunk of string-drenched, sample-heavy deep house brilliance, it contains all manner of jazzy keys solos, twinkling melodies and orchestral sweeps.Then Ato delivers an altogether dirtier and sleazier Dub of the same cut - with tons of additional percussion, including some restless cowbells - before reaching for the delays on the dreamy sunrise rush that is "Morning". It, too, contains some superb keys-work alongside a near perfect, eyes-closed spoken word vocal.
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PHONICAWHITE 017
04 Jan 18
Deep House
04 Jan 18
Deep House
Played by: Fragedis, Alkalino, B.Jinx, Juno Recommends Deep House, Domshe, Weedyman, DJ ROCCA, Djs: Most Charted - Deep House, Darko Kustura, Cos BV (Car Crash Set), Mike Woods, Natasha Kmeto
Review: Originally from South Korea but moving to London at the age of 14 where she spent her formative years, Peggy Gou has since moved to Berlin (of course!) where she's since made her break releasing two EPs in less than a year on Matt Edwards esteemed Rekids imprint. Her new one on Phonica white sees her explore classic deep house aesthetics convincingly such as on the dusty MPC bashing Moodymann style deepness of "Day Without Yesterday" with its deep funk bass, emotive strings and woozy sample all working in perfect harmony. But "Six O Six" gets a craving for the acid life with some gnarly 303 lines going head to head with hands in the air vocals and rusty drum machine grooves.
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PHONICAWHITE 015
01 Apr 16
Deep House
01 Apr 16
Deep House
Played by: Roman Flugel
Review: The latest installment of the occasional Phonica White series comes from a familiar favourite, Berlin-based Japanese producer Lori. This is his third contribution to the series, all told, and is every bit as impressive as its' predecessors. He begins with "Monsoon", an atmospheric and percussive affair that blends the big room bounce of tech-house with the quietly evocative chords and tear-jerking melodies of gentler deep house. It feels rather tribal, all told, though arguably in outlook rather than the way it sounds. Flipside "Rainfall" is similarly tech-tinged in design, but a whole lot dreamier and deeper. It's melodies, in particular, are luscious, lending the whole thing a blissful, eyes-closed vibe.
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PHONICAWHITE 013
13 Nov 15
Techno
13 Nov 15
Techno
