Review: Deep house veteran Rick Wade comes to Germany's Rawax label with a predictably high-quality four-tracker. The title track tops a chugging, lolloping bassline and delicate keys with a looped "Where do you come from? Another galaxy" vocal snippet, while 'Dirty Wave' is a midpaced groover that'd be equally at home in the warm-up or on the sofa. 'Gambit' is another hazy, discofied looper and not unreminiscent of Kerri Chandler's work as Kaoz 6:23, while completing the EP is 'Back To The Darkness', a small-hours excursion that pairs tuff beats with more of those haunting keys and a vocal sample that sounds like Vincent Price, but probably isn't. Classy stuff!
Review: Rawax goes deep again with some more sumptuous finds, this time from William Caycedo, dropping the Bag of Boom EP for Rawax in 2018. Kickin it with the lowly gangster groove of "Cuban Linx" it paints a good picture for what that might actually look like in a club. "Steppin' Razor" keeps it tight like a dope Baby Ford jam, whereas "Roasted" toasts the kicks a fraction for that extra heaviness in the beat. Throwback to some spacey kick and percussion combis in "Dirty Dancing" - with hi-fi and lo-fi trips in effect, "Cella Dweller" keeps it radically raw too for some subby under-beats best heard on a boat somewhere in Berlin.
Review: Rwax has handed Brian Garrett AKA Javonntte his own 'Trax Series' of releases on their Motor City Edition offshoot - an honour previously only afforded to Gerald Mitchell AKA Los Hermanos. This series debut is a predictably strong offering, with Garett bouncing between rubbery, jazz-flecked deep house positivity (the starry and infectious 'Alone With You'); sub-heavy, synth sax-sporting chunkiness ('Deep...Into You', a variation on the EP's opening cut); smooth and classy deep house sensuality ('Every Body's a Star'); and intergalactic-but-underwater excellence ('Neptunelove', where raw analogue sub-bass, spacey synth sounds and tactile chords catch the ear). In other words, it's another rock-solid outing from one of deep house's most reliable producers.
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