Review: The debut release on the Party Breaks offshoot of the always classy On The Prowl label set the tone with epic reimaginations of music from the New York City of days gone by for contemporary dancefloors. It's safe to say that volume II, compiled by label co-chief Jacques Renault, will further solidify OTP Party Breaks' potential as one of 2010s best imprints. Doubling the sucker punch with four edits that dip into different genres and play out like textbook examples of how to slay a dancefloor (you'd expect nothing less from someone who has released music on Rekids, DFA, I'm a Cliche, RVNG, Wurst, Chinatown and Mule). Setting the uptempo mood is "In The Middle of The Night", a subtley nuanced edit of a slice of classic late 70s disco from Jet Brown that adds some neat percussive chops to what is already a lovely warm melody. Fans of Tensnake's recent "Coma Cat" will be all over "Love & Happiness", a dirty basement jam that reworks a mid nineties collaboration between Louie Vega and long term muse India to perfection. Renault's production nous is on evidence with "Miranda" which begins with some very Switch-esque production before dropping into a massive jack of a tribal house groove with several little changeups to keep the dancefloor on its toes. The EP ends with "My Baby Loves Me" which amps up the 80s sax house to the max. More must have material from the record vaults of Jacques Renault.
Review: Having impressed with the first collection of re-edits earlier in 2012, the Legendary 1979 Orchestra gather together more floor-friendly reworks from friends and associates on their own Legendary Sound Research imprint. With different tempos, sounds and styles at play, it's a well-rounded collection. Contrast, for example, the tough 80s-electro-goes house vibes of Legendary 1979 Orchestra's "Burning" and the slow, soulful bump of 78 Edits' "Can't Have My Love". Or, for that matter, the breezy party vibes of Andrei's "Let's Go Raw" and the heavy funk of Richmed's "Do Your Thang". There's also some more 80s disco tweakery from Spanish edit workhorse Rayko.
Review: Spain's theBasement Discos bring us an excellent collection of contemporary disco, and disco-house grooves here. Cesar D'Julius gets the ball rolling with 'All Night Long', which recalls the classic early 00s output of Martin Solveig, and we stay in similarly sparkly territory for Dumarek's 'Keep On Making It Hot' before dropping deeper with Goleen's 'Always Gonna Be With Me'. Other highlights come in the form of Max Caesar's chimpunk-vocalled 'My Time For Love' and BNinjas' filtered, Daft Punk-y 'Two 2 One', but the cream of the crop by far is Vic Esenaihc's 'Money Baby', which as fine a slab of proper trad-style New Jersey garage as this reviewer has heard in years, and worth the price of admission on its own!
Review: Filled with crackling samples of dust coated vinyl, rusty brass horns and warm house sentiments wrapped up in the sooty atmospheres of field recordings and old school instrumental hip hop vibes, Hobie returns with Strugglebus Vol 1. It follows the artist's Espresso Depresso debut from two years ago with this release dialing up nostalgic and instrumental jazz numbers that sooth and invoke waves of nostalgia. A lush waltz through a technicolor dreamscape of analogue sound, re-imagined samples, MPC beat making and emotive tones. All aboard the Strugglebus.
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