Review: Returning to Salted Records is honey voiced vocalist Lisa Shaw. Here she presents "I Can't See It", co-written and produced by Miguel Migs. The tunes is presented here in two very different incarnations. First up is the Miguel Miggs Vocal mix, which begins as deliciously deep and sultry late night disco house before sweeping into arpeggiated synthiness. The "Deluxe Dub" version meanwhile, gets grittier with some seriously dirty jackin' funk vibes added to the mix.
Review: California producer Miguel Migs drops a package of supreme funky and soulful house bombs on this single - a collaboration with vocalist Sonny J Mason. The original of "Burnin' Up" is funky enough - combining Jamiroquai-style brass, smooth guitars and simple but effective house beats. Migs himself lays out a useful dub on the single, while Dario D'Attis remixes the song completely - turning it into a vital deep house adventure that fuses the vocals with some lingering string notes to heart-stopping effect. British duo Inland Knights also go deep on their dub mix, adding layers of Rhodes piano, while Fabio Tosti does a wonderful job on the drums - making the tom-tom's bounce off every beat of the vocal, making them a match made in heaven. Smart, soulful and very funky - these mixes are all a real treat.
Review: Soul and house singer Lisa Shaw drops "Can You See Him" and a whole host of ace mixes to go with it. The original is a perfect example of what funky and soulful house has been missing of late - something with a hint of melancholy that's also supremely danceable. Shaw's vocal drips with emotion and longing, which is framed perfectly by Californian Joshua Heath on his appropriately titled Moody mix. Sparsely arranged with little more than a funky drum track and bass, it's a real standout.
The Sonny Fodera mix fills out the track and makes it a more uplifting and jacking peak-time tune. Popping bass and slick guitars are a tried and tested combination for house music success and this is no exception - it works very well indeed here. Colombian Dj Andrew Chibale brings the horns home for his mix, reworking it with lots of acid jazz colour and an insistent cymbal track to create probably the most soulful mix of the four. Not only is the original a strong track in it's own right, these mixes really offer a range of different perspectives rarely seen on one release. Great stuff all round - fans of quality funky house will get a big kick out of these gems.
Review: More deep jazzy mood music courtesy of Miguel Migs' Salted label out of San Francisco, on the eleventh edition in its Crossed Signals series. Czech producer Zetbee delivers the sensual late night groove of "Walking Over Me", Aussie upstarts TIGER MINDD deliver the sexy Sydney shuffle of "Tiger Crossing", while Brazilian Gustavo FK delivers the latin infused sunset bliss of "Jazz To Me" and British duo Delaines go for more of a Stateside sound on the sultry swing of "That's House" with its legendary vocal samples throughout.
Review: Sometime Springbok and Chopshop regular Andy Bach has been impressively prolific in 2021, with this outing on long-established West Coast US deep house label Salted marking his fifth release of the year to date. He starts in confident mood with 'You Got My Love', a bold, filter-happy chunk of extra-heavy house music rich in old school female vocal snippets, undulating synthesizer motifs and sparkling disco samples. That disco influence comes to the fore on title track 'Body Heat', a thickset and energetic party rocker where Chic style guitar motifs and filter-smothered instrumentation rise above a bustling, bass-heavy beat, while closing cut 'Feel Alright' is the kind of cheery but chunky disco-house number that Ian Pooley used to knock out in his sleep.
Review: Salted Music boss Miguel Migs takes us back to the future here, as fellow San Francisco resident Jay-J puts his slant on the producer's 2004 collaboration with Li'sha, "Do It For You". In true Bay Area fashion, he begins with the chunky, locked-in "Shiftech Dub", where late night electronic riffs and delay-laden vocal snippets cluster around a heavy tech-house bassline and hypnotic late night drums. The veteran producer follows this with the "Shifted Up Dub", which makes great use of some rubbery bass guitar playing, drum machine cowbells and warmer chords, before unleashing the similarly minded "Shifted Up Vocal Mix", where LiSha naturally takes centre stage. To complete the package, he serves up an instrumental take on the same tasty rework.
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