Review: Young Marco's label, Safe Trip, has become a home to some of the very best deep house and Balearic on the market. Perhaps they would prefer to be done as 'outsider' specialists, but we like to stick to names we know and trust best. To further prove the label's worth, they've signed Artis from the Sticks & Stones imprint, an artist who has been front-of-mind for us over the last year. As you'd imagine, this is all absurdly dreamy material, with "Panthera Pardus" providing a slow-moving, shape-shifting bit of house tribalism for the chill-out zones, with "Cetacea" acting as the inevitable follow-up thanks to another seismic reverie. "Gigantopicethus" is more percussive in nature, unleashing poly-rhythms all over the place, while "Delphinidae" glitches its ditant drums over mind-bending synths from outer space. Lush.
Review: Armada Music 20 Years Classics pays homage to dance music's rich history and aims to educate a new generation of fans about the artists who shaped the genre. There's classics galore on this one as you'd expect, with several bangers by label chief Armin Van Burren, in addition to seminal anthems such as Joe Smooth's "Promised Land", Inner City's "Good Life" (remastered), Chez Damier's "Can You Feel It" (New York extended dub) and Olav Basoski's "Waterman" (extended mix), as well as appearances by newer artists like ANOTR, Patrick Topping and Jan Blomquist.
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