Review: Hailing from Mexico, The Funk Disco District are on a mission to spread good vibes courtesy of impossibly slick 'sample based music...made to move people all around the world". Here, through Hotbox Records, they deliver their three latest jams - the deliciously fluid and jazzy Latin-disco-isms of "I'm Gonna Get You Baby", the uber slick, spacey disco-cocktail-house of "Get On Down" and the sumptuously languid Balearica of "Feelin' Alright". Smart!
Review: Originally released on vinyl way back in 2008, this floor-friendly digital reissue sees re-edit fiend Gay Marvine tweaking a quartet of cuts from flamboyant disco deviant Sylvester. There are straight-up disco dubs of "Band Of Gold" (previously re-edited magnificently by The Glimmers for an Eskimo comp) and "I Who Have Nothing", plus a handy take on the riotous "Do You Wanna Funk" that benefits from a tougher, digitally altered intro. There's also a fabulous re-jig of "Take Me To Heaven" (here titled "Baby, Let's Trip Out") that emphasizes the dubbier elements of the supremely camp original.
Review: Long-serving deep house producer Konstantinos Malamis ALA Cockney Lama returns to Robsoul following 2016 outings on Moodyhouse, Something Else and Henry Street Music. Predictably, he begins in confident fashion, layering woozy vocal samples over a wiggly synth bassline and bumping beats on "Baby Funk You". The track that follows, "I've Never Been There" is similarly high octane in feel, deriving much of its power from Derrick Carter style drums and a low-slung disco bassline. Elsewhere, "No Worries About My French" is an attractive and punchy disco-house bumper, while "Johnny The Danger" is a low-end stomper smothered in boomty drums and sampled guitar licks.
Review: First released as a double seven-inch single earlier in the year, the fifth volume in the Too Slow To Disco Edits series offers up a quartet of reworks from French slo-mo house and disco specialist Vibes4YourSoul. The Gallic scalpel fiend hits the ground running with "Mais Loucos (Bozo Rework)", a wonderfully sunny, horn-laden tweak of a sumptuous samba-disco number, before upping the tempo significantly on the bongo-laden dewy-eyed AOR disco sexiness of "All The Way (Tonight's Ze Night Rework)". "I'm In Luv (No Doubt Rework)" brilliantly re-imagines Evelyn "Champagne" King classic as a slow-motion reggae-boogie treat (seriously, it's superb), while "Coney Island (Glory of Love Rework)" is a hazy, sun-kissed yacht rock treat.
Review: Fresh from typically impressive outings from GLBDOM and Esuoh, Hurlee inaugurates a new label, Letters To Nina, via a rock-solid four-track EP. The Spanish producer begins in ominous form via 'I Need You', a deep but bustling, lightly disco-tinged deep house bumper, before drawing influence from mid-to-late-90s garage on the swirling, groove-heavy excellence of 'Glory'. The Spaniard's love of deep, dusty and soulful downtempo grooves is given a rare airing on 'All The Same', a deliciously dreamy and sunset-ready head-nodder that seems to make use of selected snippets from a modern soul number, while 'Destiny' is a crunchy, dancefloor-centric instrumental hip-hop number blessed with jazzy electric piano solos, warm bass and eyes-closed vocal samples.
Review: Since they last featured on Masterworks Music, Mexico City's Sould Out crew has delivered rather good releases on Furious Mandrill, Kultus Musiek, Alpaca Edits and Hotbox Music. There's plenty to admire on their return to Danny Worrall's prolific imprint, not least killer opener "Across The Sky", a prize chunk of reworked P-funk/disco-funk fusion that boasts some seriously good slap bass. Slow-motion, filter-heavy boogie-house goodness is provided via the hot-stepping "I Got You Baby", while "Bittersweet Memories" is a gently dubbed-out chunk of 80s soul bounciness. Elsewhere, "Look Out" sees Sould Out up the tempo on a South American disco-boogie workout, while "Then She Was Gone" wraps Balearic jazz guitar solos around a chugging, head-in-the-clouds groove.
Review: Following years of extended service on DFA Records, Juan Maclean and regular collaborators Nancy Whang and Nicholas Millhiser have begun popping up on all manner of labels (most recently Aus and, more surprisingly, Going In - the latter with a 52-minute ambient track). Here they debut on Me Me Me, flitting between driving and percussive disco-house (the loopy and hedonistic 'I Can't Explain' and the celebratory release of 'City Life Disco'), sweaty early morning house sleaze ('Leave Me When You Can') and hazy hypnotism ('Ain't No Thing Baby', where echoing flute sounds occasionally rise above a tracky but unusual groove). Alinka provides the EP's only remix, a tooled-up, nu-disco style revision of 'I Can't Explain' that somehow sounds both loose and locked-in at the same time.
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