Review: Fresh from a recent collaboration with Alex Metric on Anjunabeat, former Noir Music man Ten Ven returns to his When I Met You label, an imprint he established early last year. Like its predecessor, "Word of Mouth" is another collaborative affair, with Gramme band member Luke Hannam swinging by the studio to lend a hand. His urgent, eyes-closed vocals surge from the speakers on "Yeah", a driving, low-slung disco house number smothered in rubbery bass guitar, fizzing synth riffs and relentless percussion. Arguably even better is "Word of Mouth", a lolloping, mid-tempo affair that sees the duo wrap echoing electronic motifs around another scorching, bass guitar driven groove, while Ten Ven's accompanying re-edit turns the track into an acid disco slammer.
Review: Get To Know AKA Larry Holcome cut his teeth as the in-house mixing and mastering engineer at Cr2 Records, and made his production debut in the mid-00s with a string of breakbeat releases on labels like Botchit & Scarper and Spin Out Records. None of which would give you any reason to suppose that his latest release, which comes on his own Future Sound Of Then label, would be a dusty, lo-fi, mid-paced Balearic kinda jam that makes extensive use of a Janet Jackson vocal sample, but such is indeed the case. Solid ammunition for all those afternoon, poolside, warm-up and BBQ sets this summer.
Review: Throwing the weight of your enthusiasm into uncovering the identity of Person Of Interest using your search engine of choice is one of the more futile ways to spend your spare time. Aside from the insinuation by LIES that POI is a Brooklyn-based producer, you'll find little more than numerous fan sites to the Jim Caviezel fronted TV drama of the same name. Just accept this cloak of anonymity and focus on the cuts! What You Think You Want is a fine addition to another busy year for LIES, and the title cut has already been causing dancefloor bedlam in the hands of some well chosen selectors. "Keep It Moving" offers a less haywire side to POI and gets quite beautiful towards the end, whilst "My 97s" is a murky dancefloor cut that wouldn't sound out of place wedged inbetween some grime. Killer sleeve from long time LIES art affiliate Pete Leonard!
Review: Since debuting on their eponymous label last summer, Club of Jacks has delivered a range of tunes indebted to classic American house, and both U.S and UK variants of garage. Here they join Mike Millrain's Soul Revolution, dropping two cuts of revivalist goodness. "Hard To Let You Know" is a sweet and woozy, soul-flecked groover, with vintage vocal samples and fluid riffs riding a late '90s US garage-meets-speed garage groove. "When I Need You" moves further towards classic UK garage, with the duo underpinning jazzy organ keys and vocal samples with a throbbing bassline and skipping, New Jersey beats.
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