Review: Parisian label Popcorn has pulled out all the stops on this latest release, roping in an impressive cast-list of established artists for a compilation style throw down. DJ Gregory steps up first, donning the now familiar Point G alias for an impeccably dusty, delay-laden trip into locked-in, late night deep house territory, before fellow veteran D'Julz subtly references is early 2000s releases on 20:20 Vision via the rolling, bass-heavy tech-house/deep house fusion of "About Time". Amir Alexander's contribution, "The Scent of My Desire", is alternately fuzzy, blissfully melodious and rush inducing, while British techno legend Aubrey serves up a spot of percussion-heavy deep house in the shape of EP highlight "African Song".
Review: Parisian label Popcorn has pulled out all the stops on this latest release, roping in an impressive cast-list of established artists for a compilation style throw down. DJ Gregory steps up first, donning the now familiar Point G alias for an impeccably dusty, delay-laden trip into locked-in, late night deep house territory, before fellow veteran D'Julz subtly references is early 2000s releases on 20:20 Vision via the rolling, bass-heavy tech-house/deep house fusion of "About Time". Amir Alexander's contribution, "The Scent of My Desire", is alternately fuzzy, blissfully melodious and rush inducing, while British techno legend Aubrey serves up a spot of percussion-heavy deep house in the shape of EP highlight "African Song".
Review: The latest release on Popcorn is rather a special one for label founder Antoine Molkou. It marks his debut as a recording artist (under the previously unheralded Siler alias) and contains a trio of contrasting cuts. Compare, for example, the dreamy, tech-tinged deepness of opener "Saint Eustache", where a bass-heavy groove is smothered in darting electronics and Pete Namlook style ambient chords, and the bustling, funk-fuelled deep house jack-track that is "Rue Vignon". The latter, full of stuttering drum machine handclaps, lolloping 909 drums and a stabbing bassline, is something of a peak-time treat. Arguably best of all, though, is Flabaire hook-up "Spatial Purim", which wraps Larry Heard style bass and Motor City melodies around a rolling, Chez Damier style drum groove.
Review: We've not heard from Paul Cut since last summer and our dancefloors have been all the poorer as a result. Now he's back to bring a little more of his production sparkle over four new jams. "Bassment Jam" seamlessly blends a breaky cut-up of Jungle Boogie with some pretty deep and warped filtered house. Elsewhere "Is It" is exquisitely dreamy cloud-surfing house, "Else" is a terse old-skool funky house joint, and "About That" is pulsating disco-boogie heaven (also reworked into even funkier dimensions by Joss Moog).
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