Review: Fancy Human co-founders Rob King and Tom Coulling once again don the Lucatwana guise for their first outing of 2017. Title track "Kinda Hooked" is deliciously loose and dusty, sitting somewhere between the jazz-flecked warmth of Detroit deep house, the low-slung grooves of dancefloor jazz, and the smoother explorations of labels such as Retrofit and Freerange. "I Can Dig It" is similarly eccentric, and features bluesy horn samples rubbing shoulders with elastic acid lines, intergalactic electronics and a sweaty, dirt-encrusted rhythm track. It's tricky to easily pigeonhole, but hugely enjoyable - much like the majority of their back catalogue, in fact.
Review: As the spring is finally putting herself to bed and summer's tucking her in, the crew at Fancy Human are back with their next offering, "Gin and Justice". It has been a while - but as they have said before, those Lucatwana boys don't half like a slumber: but it's nothing that a sharp stick and the promise of a free gin can't fix! Seems that tactic works a treat and they are in excellent, disco tinged/housey form on the opening track "'Just Is'". As if that news in itself is not exciting enough, they have also welcomed a new artist to the fold - Runs With Scissors: who have put in a rather sterling effort on their debut track '"Let U Know'"
Review: Leigh Morgan is one of the three points on the Fancy Human power triangle (he's one of three label heads) and also has a strong reputation for delivering deep house on other labels too. Here he whips up three new sizzlers for our listening pleasure - the looped, mid pace back and forth grooves of "Dilly Of A Pickle", the distorted and woozy late 80s ecstasy vibes of "Pie On The Sly" and the malfunctioning stop/start electronics of "Almost Champion". The opener also gets a "Dubfloor remix" by Chocky, who turns in a warm and seductive late night '90s house joint.
Review: A relative newcomer to the scene, having popped his release cherry as recently as 2019, Ruksby is a Moscow-based disco, acid house and electro producer who's known in real life as Alexander Klygin. Here he brings us three perfectly serviceable disco workouts, kicking off with the upbeat 'Disco In My Head' with its "You're like the music/Playing in my head/Everywhere I go" male vocal, before moving on to the slightly more sedate 'Mlfy' with its layered strings, and concluding with 'Fancy Love', a proper drifty, dreamy slow-burner with some nice lil' jazzy flourishes here and there. Solid stuff all round.
Review: This latest album-length excursion by Montenegran nu disco regular Sasha Mitich finds him largely exploring and expressing his love for all things 80s - perhaps never more so than on 'Someone Like You', which could have come straight from the soundtrack of some coming-of-age movie starring at least one of the Brat Pack. Elsewhere, 'Back To Funk' brings the 80s boogie vibes, 'Woman Saying' recalls the likes of Fern Kinney or The Captain & Tenille and 'Your Life' slips in some cheeky Bee Gees bites, but the standout by far is the ultra-funky 'Fancy Dancer', a rework of the Commodores cut of the same name from 1976.
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