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: Veteran US label Salted have always had a fine ear for dancefloor-friendly deep house of the funk-fuelled and bumpin' variety, and this latest despatch from the San Francisco camp doesn't disappoint. 'Lovely' itself borrows the well-known "life can be so shady" vocal from C&C Music Factory's 'Keep It Comin', placing it atop a parping, organ-led groove and looping up the "I've got to keep on, you've got to keep on" section - dancing will ensue, mark our words! The accompanying 'Sweet Sunday', meanwhile, is a slab of bottom-heavy electronic funk augmented by soaring, summery brass and a spoken male vocal.
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: 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: Some eminently floor-friendly deep house vibes here courtesy of long-running San Fran label Salted. 'That's That Boom' in its Original form is quite a techy, driving proposition by label standards, and rocks a hip-house style vocal from Louis Hale. Jared Gallo's remix adds jazzy piano licks and succesfully infuses the track with the kind of fat n' funky feel at which Salted productions have always excelled while keeping things nice and meaty, while elsewhere, 'Right Here' will be the pick for more soulful floors and 'Step Inside' is a very classy 3am dubwise excursion.
Review: If you're looking for two undeniable slices of pure disco inspired house just like in the ol' days, Miguel Migs' entertaining Lost Messages has you covered. It's got all the de-tuned rhode chords you could hope for, string samples, filtered drums and deeper, cut up, and looped vocal snippets to remind you in a gospel kind of way about 'the power of music'. For a resonating, warehouse version of the discofied original, Salted Dub is the cut.
Review: Alek Soltriov has been on fire of late, delivering a string of well-regarded EPs for the likes of King Street Sounds, Juiced, Blacksoul and Different Attitudes. It's little surprise, then, to find that this first solo single for Miguel Migs' Salted label is also rather good. The headline attraction is undoubtedly opener "Marvin", a formidably chunky, bass-heavy affair that wraps soulful Marvin Gaye vocal samples and glassy-eyed piano riffs around a typically tough deep house groove. There's plenty to admire elsewhere, though, from the elastic drums and mind-altering electronics of "Another Level" to the skipping, garage-influenced early morning trip that is "New Days".
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.
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: Those who've been buying and playing deep house since the mid-2000s should be familiar with Kinky Movement. Before they dropped off the radar in 2011, the five-piece crew released a wealth of material on such labels as Drop Music, Tango Recordings and Beatdown Music. Happily, this comeback EP sees them in fine form, delivering a range of sturdy, no-nonsense floorfillers. Highlights come thick and fast, from the heavy acid bass, warehouse-friendly stabs and hustlin' vocal samples of "I Try", to the late night retro-futurism of "Keep Moving On". Arguably best of all is the stomping dub of "Onesei", which sounds like an unlikely jam session between Chicken Lips, DJ Sneak and DJ T.
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