Review: London-based producer Tom Funk makes a variety of music under a variety of names, including Dub Chronicle, Big Now, The Sultan's Swing and, as here, Seraphiks. His debut long-player under the latter moniker is a diverse affair that ranges from near-ambient pieces such as 'Beauty In Life' and the fluttery, Balearic 'Feathers Fallen', via the broken dreampop of 'Broken' and the indie-ish 'Left Off From', to fully wonked-out, experimental cuts such as 'Static Love' and 'Paper, Scissors, Stone'. The album's two clear standouts, to these ears, are the ambient dub-tinged 'Free Fall', and 'Good Tax', wherein Mr Funk may have invented a whole new genre called drone 'n' B. But you have to give the man this much: it certainly never gets predictable.
Review: At 14 tracks large trance master Chicane's eighth studio album has arrived in the shape of Everything We Had To Leave Behind. Maintaining an uplifting & melancholic approach to his production, Chicane's classic trance chords are as always undeniable throughout this latest work while still touching on that late-90s-to-mid-2000s pioneering sound. The LP brings with it the Ibiza sunset croons of vocalist Joseph Aquilina (Goldfish) who's voice more often than not challenges the timbres of one Chris Martin. Exploring various drum patterns across numbers like the breakbeat "Make You Stay" or the skipping UK funky of "Sailing", get your housier, pop and balearic trance from "One Foot In The Past, One Foot In The Future" and "Hello, Goodbye". For more classically inclined fans, those trusted bouncy chords, breaths and beats can be found all the more in "Juno", "Don't Look Down", the album's beatless title-track, and exclusive Chicane cover version of Bon Iver's "8 (Circle)".
Review: Longstanding Italian label, Record Kicks, outta Milan that's been specialising in all matter of funk since 2003, digs through its catalogue to surface with a compilation of obscure material and classics from the likes of James Brown to original soul diva Martha High. Across the 12 tracks presented here you'll find a bona fide cast of artists like Osaka Monaurail, Hannah Williams and Baby Charles to the explosive sound of Marta Ren, the Link Quartet and more! Record Kicks as always spearheading today's retro Soul movement for the better!
Review: British dance music sensation Hot Since 82, he of Knee Deep In Sound fame, presents this specially commissioned DJ mix as part of the Mixmag Presents series, which previously featured industry heavyweights such as Claude VonStroke, Maya Jane Coles and Busy P. Described as 'a super hot house mix' it features Avotre head Sante teaming up with German scene veteran Frank Lorber on the deep and emotive groove of "All About", the return of Berlin's Philip Bader (Highgrade) on the classic US house vibe of "More", while legends Martin Buttrich & Mousse T serve up some proper mood music on the intoxicating "Smack Back" and "Tout Va Bien" by Watergate resident Matthias Meyer gets a dark and dubby techno rework by maverick Bulgarian live act KiNK.
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