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: Earlier in the year, Cromarti released the latest ear-pleasing musical missive from veteran house producer Demarkus Lewis, the gorgeously summer, softly tech-tinged deep house loveliness that is 'Airlock'. Here the track returns to digital download stores in freshly remixed mode. Rising star Sebb Junior steps up first, wrapping Lewis's luscious keys and chords around chunkier, more thickset house beats and a weightier, more impactful bassline. The second rework comes courtesy of George Horn, who smothers bongo-laden deep house beats and a stabbing bassline in dreamy pads, sparkling chords and eyes-closed vocal snippet.
Review: It would be fair to say that Demarkus Lewis knows his way around a studio. Since debuting way back in 1999, Lewis has delivered countless deep and soulful house classics for labels including Brique Rouge, Nordic Trax, Lost My Dog, Salted Music and, most recently, Large Music. Here he debuts on Kolour Recordings via an expansive EP that pairs four fresh cuts with a quintet of remixes. Of Lewis's originals, we're fondest of 'Mystic Vibes', a superb combination of bustling beats, heavy analogue bass and jazzy musicality, the pitched down boogie-flavoured house excitement of 'From Me' and the simply delicious 'Holy Ghost'. The accompanying remixes are great, too, with our picks including Oscar P's muscular jazz-house version of 'Holy Ghost' and Kai Alice's deliciously smooth rework of 'Mystic Vibes'.
Review: Since making his debut way back in 1999, Demarkus Lewis has built up an impressive discography packed to the rafters with high-grade deep and soulful house. He continues to push forwards, too, as his latest outing on King Street Sounds offshoot Nite Grooves proves. What's on offer is extended and edited versions of two killer cuts. First up is 'Street Beat', a bumping and loose-limbed affair in which rich chords, jaunty electric piano sounds, cut-up vocal samples and shimmering piano riffs bounce above classic-sounding U.S garage beats and a genuinely addictive bassline. On 'Universal Language', Lewis opts for a chunkier, more driving house beat, deeper bass, classic-sounding organ stabs, twinkling electric piano solos and a wonderfully hazy late-night vibe.
Review: Last summer, veteran house producer Demarkus Lewis pitched up on Lisztomania with a rock-solid EP packed to the rafters with retro-futurist, U.S style deep house and chunky, French Touch-esque disco-house. Here, all three tracks from that EP are given the remix treatment. Eric Smith steps up first and delivers a heavily filtered, effects-laden disco-house rework of 'Try Ur Luck', before Phasen reaches for squelchy analogue bass, unfussy machine drums, hypnotic stabs and dreamy pads on a pleasingly deep rework of 'Be Sincere'. We're then treated to two takes on 'A Man's Treasure': a piano-sporting classic house version (the wonderfully nostalgic We Are Neurotic remix) and a deep, bouncy and subtly dubbed-out revision courtesy of Kellit.
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