Review: Shir Khan unleashes another thrill-a-minute selection of disco-inspired workouts to get the dancefloor swinging. Bas Roos and Guy Steve kick things off with the good-time breeze of "Piece of Soul", where jazzy electric piano solos and ricocheting vocal samples ride a lolloping disco-house groove, before Freiboitar makes a stomping, French Touch style disco-house monster out of samples from one of the best-loved disco records of all time. Over on the flipside, Claus Caspar and Steve Philips whip their shirts off, reach for the poppers and lay down a stupendous slice of muscular late night disco-house. Featuring heavy, Moroder style arpeggio bass, razor-sharp disco strings and meaty house loops, "Sex Sells" is something of a sweaty party-starter.
Review: The Bas Lexter Ensample is a project by acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Bas Lexter who combines a love of jazz, big band music, reggae, funk and of course sampling to create a unique multi-genre sonic world of his own. This eight-track mini album features a multitude of sampled jazz breaks, ragga and hip-hop MC flows, all married to tight funk grooves and reggae skanks. Party starting stuff!
Kerri Chandler - "Ain't That A Bitch" - (4:16) 110 BPM
Review: For the second salvo in the label's retrospective New York Chronicles series, Ibadan Records has decided to showcase some choice moments from the epic discography of legendary producer Kerri Chandler. First up you'll find a fresh Jerome Sydenham edit of Teule's Chandler-producer 1990 soulful deep house shuffler "Drink On Me", before we're treated to the dreamy, mid-tempo soulful house bliss of 1998's "While We're Young". There's another chance to savour the jaunty U.S garage organ riffs, tactile bass and rolling drums of the big man's brilliant Jazzy Mix of New Jersey duo Bas-Noir's 1992 classic "Shoe-B-Doo", before Chandler takes to the mic to muse on life on the streets in New York on the 110 BPM, hip-hop influenced goodness of the previously unheard "Ain't That A Bitch".
Review: Dutchman Bas Roos is the latest producer to contribute to Exploited's Shir Khan-curated Black Jukebox series. He kicks off a fine EP via "Downtown", a lumpy, bumpy chunk of dusty, piano-laden peak-time goodness driven forwards by bustling drums and a killer disco style bassline. You'll find more blissful piano solos on the similarly hustling, low-slung "One Way", which also makes great use of impassioned disco-soul vocal snippets and restless handclap samples. Elsewhere, "Take Life Easy" is an impeccable hybrid of jazzy disco samples and swinging deep house percussion, while "Ugly House" sounds like a long lost collaboration between Kevin Saunderson's Inner City Project, Chez Damier and Sheffield-based dusty house specialist Thatmanmonkz.
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