Feel The Heat (Deez Scat Back mix) - (6:42) 124 BPM
Review: Two long-serving veterans of the deep house scene join forces for the first time, as Demarkus Lewis and Sen-Sei deliver a killer collaborative cut on Salted Music. As you might expect, 'Feel The Heat' is warm, melodious and exceptionally summery, with layered synth sounds, piano-powered melodies, jaunty keyboard stabs and scat style improvised vocals wrapping around a tactile deep house groove. It comes accompanied by the Deez 'Scat Back' mix, a deeper and more thickset affair in which the duo's scat vocals dance atop deep chords, slowly building piano motifs and skipping, New Jersey garage-influenced beats.
Review: In the time that has passed since his last appearance on Salted Music three years ago, Discosteps has delivered well-regarded missives on Glasgow Underground, Large Music and Street King. Pleasingly, he's in fine form on his return to the California-based imprint, opening proceedings with the chunky, loopy, bass-heavy hedonism of 'I Can Feel', where heavy bass, twinkling instrumental solos, filtered riffs and glassy-eyed R&B vocal samples catch the ear. He opts for a more celebratory vibe on the soul-flecked deep house rush of title track 'Night Funk' - check the fluid bass, gorgeous piano stabs and echoing vocal snippets - while 'This Is About Groove' is an ear-pleasing mid-set box jam to keep the party going.
Review: Hiva, a Serbian producer and DJ, delivers a funky and groovy 2-track release on Miguel Migs' Salted Music. The title track, 'Funk Mansion', is a catchy and upbeat tune with a classic disco vibe and a catchy vocal hook. The second track 'Agogo' is a more laid-back and jazzy affair with a smooth saxophone melody and a funky guitar riff. Both tracks showcase Hiva's talent for creating infectious and soulful house music that will make you want to dance and is perfect tackle for the summer upcoming season.
Review: The track titles alone should give you a good idea what to expect of this three-tracker from Argentina's Jonathan Douglas Braverman, better known as Ladies On Mars. 'Disco Rock' kicks things off, an unashamedly camp little strutter with a Eurodisco bassline, Lipps Inc-ish strings and some killer 'pyow!' stabs. 'Dance Move' is a funkier affair that owes a debt of inspiration to Crown Heights Affair's 'Dance Lady Dance', before we're played out by 'Lunch Box Boogie', which is funkier still and features some fine parping sax. If you're drowning in a sea of cosmic, Italo and prog and looking for some PROPER disco, here it is...
Review: After drifting between digital labels over the last few years, Dutchican Soul has washed up on Salted Music, an imprint entirely suited to the Amsterdam artist's bumping blend of colouful, disco-tinged house. He starts in confident mood via 'Love Talk', a cheery disco-house roller rich in rubbery bass guitar, Nile Rodgers style guitars, D-Train synth squiggles and classic Gwen Guthrie vocal samples. The experienced producer opts for a deliciously retro-futurist, peak Inner City sound on 'I Want Your Love' - all dirty acid bass, warehouse-ready stabs and jacking drums - before opting for a woozier, hybrid deep house/nu-disco sound on glassy-eyed closing cut 'Can We Talk'.
Review: In keeping with the label's fine form of late, Salted Music's Autumn Selections EP is full to bursting with high-quality house music. Marco Corona leads the way with opener 'Yeah', a chunky, locked-in slab of hyonotic disco-house funkiness that makes great use of several synth samples from a couple of much-loved boogie classics. Paul 2 Paul's 'On My Mind' is a decent, disco-tinged deep house loop jam full of drum machine cowbells, tactile riffs and swirling chords, while NEO-X's 'Do You Realise' cannily combines squelchy bass, hazy vocal snippets, fuzzy electronic riffs and chunky house drums. Arguably best of all though is DJ Iaia's 'Dibango', a bass-heavy 'boompty' bumper that sounds tailor-made for sweaty peak-time moments.
Review: Following up some great releases on The Basement Discos, Yuna Beats and Smooth Flavor, Belgian producer George Cynnamon returns with some properly low slung heaters on his latest release for Miguel Migs' Salted label. Starting off with the sweltering disco loops of "Rockin By Myself" featuring a very familiar vocal loop from an early '90s Hi NRG classic (to wonderful effect!), Cynnamon then gets stuck into some smooth vocal deep house on "It Sure Feels Good", followed by the sultry late night mood music of "Another Way".
Review: Salted Music's warm and hazy deep house has always been reliably summery, though this multi-artist EP is even more sun-kissed than usual. Austins Groove does a terrific job setting the tone with 'Take Hold', where emotive female vocals, rave-ready riffs and thickset synth stabs bounce atop a chunky groove, before Rafael Yapudijan and Igor Cunha reach for the filters on flute-sporting, funk-flecked disco-house number 'When I'm In Your Arms'. Tom Conrad and Andy Robertson deliver an even hotter and warmer take on disco-house on the fabulous 'When It's Over' - all rubbery bass guitar, crispy snares, flanged guitars and hazy Rhodes chords - while Andy Bach's 'Bring Back The Joy' is a supremely squelchy fusion of disco, synth-boogie and deep house that will be putting smiles on faces all summer long.
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