Review: The secret to this release is smooth, chilled grooves and blessed-out melodies weaving pretty little stories inside your head. "Secret Sauce" drives on as a deep roller, taken up a step by intricate chimes and sampling, somewhat reminiscent of more ambient producers like Bonobo and Onra. "Get Jazzy" delivers on its promise with dissonant piano and skipped beats and moving on to "So Much Love" Londy gets deep and soulful. "Roots" pushes back to the early days of breaks and bassy distortion, "Soul Power" gets retro with quirky samples and production techniques and "Solitary" brings the heavyweight bass. This guy has consistently delivered this year, don't miss this.
Review: Even by their impeccably high standards, the Exotic Refreshment label enjoyed a highly productive 2018. To celebrate the fact, the crew behind the Poland-based imprint has put together "Secret Garden", a "year in review" compilation featuring tracks from ten of their favourite releases. Our picks of a predictably strong bunch include the drowsy, trip-hop influenced head-nod of HAFT's "Obtable (Trippin Jaguar Mix)", the gentle dreaminess and ultra-deep house grooves of PHCK's rework of Sanderman and Leon Power's "Dion Is Walking", the tropical dream house flex of Chambord's "Symbioz (Juan Remix)" and the sub-bright melodic fluidity and chugging mid-tempo beats of Downpour's immaculate "Samsara".
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