RCRD OF THE DAY: Tiefschwarz - Home (feat. Daniel Wilde)
Chocolate, the new album from club bastions Tiefschwarz, sees the brothers return from electro detours to the baleful deep house sound with which they originally made their name. "Home" has been torn from that record for your listening pleasure - featuring the silky smooth and solemn vocal talent of Daniel Wilde, it's a track that is sure to meet its targets. Chocolate is out now, through the champs at Souvenir Music.
Tiefschwarz - Home (feat. Daniel Wilde)
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DOWNLOAD: Steve Bug - Like It Should Be (feat. Gigi) (Radio Edit)
Berlin's Steve Bug has for years been one of the globe's top purveyors of reduced, taught tech-house, a sound he pretty much institutionalized with his label, Poker Flat, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2009. High on the Poker Flat release calendar this year was Collaboratory, Bug's guest-heavy fourth artist LP, featuring collabos with Cassy, Simon Flower, Donnacha Costello, and the Detroit Grand Pubahs' Paris The Black Fu. "Like It Should Be" is Bug's vision of Chicago deep house, which is to say that the keys are a tad restrained and the groove a little jagged, neither distracting much from the desirous vocal of Finnish singer Gigi. MP3 below, get a more in-depth look at Collaboratory over at Resident Advisor and buy the album here.
Sounds like: Loco Dice, Move D, D'Julz
Steve Bug - Like It Should Be (feat. Gigi) (Radio Edit)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Oliver Koletzki & Roland Clark - Yes We Can (Enzo Elia Remix)
Nothing quite enriches the ears at the moment than that set of producers finding new ways to link long-disparate etiquettes of beat and bass - Eindhoven's Martyn, featured at RCRD LBL in April, is right at the very forefront of that culture. What does that have to do with Oliver Koletzki? Well, this track - produced in collaboration with house vocalist and producer Roland Clark and remixed by Italian DJ Enzo Elia - kind of sounds like Martyn might if, instead of melding techno with drum'n'bass and dubstep, he'd decided instead to produce big beat deep house tracks for inner city youth projects, enlisting a children's choir here to sing out that Obama hook. And techno of course. Much techno - it remains in the barely sated skip of hi-hats and weird synths that sound like evaporating globules of Teutonic rain.
Sounds Like: Marco Bernardi, The Source, Martyn
Oliver Koletzki & Roland Clark - Yes We Can (Enzo Elia Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Osborne - Wait A Minute (Extended)
Today we're bombarded with the internet's annual lame-joke-a-thon, but thankfully we, as usual, are pushing some ace records to keep us/you happy. Chief among those is this great talkbox-heavy cut from Osborne's new Hovercrafting EP for Spectral Sound, "Wait A Minute." If you ever yearned for that nasty little device to sneak into some smooth deep house material, consider this your redemption. Also, if you slept on it, we dropped another song from the EP last week called "Fire," so grab that if you haven't already and head to Ghostly's site to pick up the whole thing.
Osborne - Wait A Minute (Extended)
Previously:
Osborne - Bout Ready to Jak (TNT Mix)
Osborne - Daylight (Pyjama Mix by Isolee)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Mr. Scruff - Cat & Mouse
On February 17th, tea-maker, DJ, and producer Mr. Scruff will release the physical version of his recent album Ninja Tuna, loaded up with some new unheard jawns for those that still like real records. One of those extras is "Cat & Mouse," a well-titled game of give-and-take deep house keys, chirpy hi-hats, and sporadic bassbin buzz. It's bumpy but not overly amped, putting the "house" in "coffee house."
Sounds like: Nightmares On Wax, Flying Lotus, Thievery Corporation
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DOWNLOAD: Nite Jewel - Suburbia
Eyes shut, mind levered ajar, Ramona's from LA and her music engulfs the imagination like daydream collateral; loneliness and boredom conspiring to turn underage bedrooms into observatories with telescopes aimed the way of young adulthood, learning the flail and seed of glittering beings, deep-house, disco chutzpah. Recently picked up by Mike Simonetti's esteemable Italians Do It Better record house, Nite Jewel fits well among more seasoned label-mates Chromatics and Invisible Conga People; hers an Italo-glide built from both - the former's low-slung glamour, the latter's Cluster love - but mostly from images formed the warmer side of late-night bedroom windows, kohl-eyes staring in wonder at the sparkling edges of big-city skylines far from the order of "Suburbia".
Sounds Like: John Maus, Geneva Jacuzzi, Debbie Deb
DOWNLOAD: John Daly - Count Down to Zero
For many producers and fans alike, techno is synonymous with futurism and forward thinking. So it's actually somewhat surprising when a producer decides to look the other way, to the roots of electronic music as we know it, for inspiration. John Daly works with the prototypical palattes of Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster and Tangerine Dream when crafting his tunes, which are counterbalanced by the contemporary styles of deep-house and dub. It's fitting, then, that his new EP on Wave Music is called "Atlantis," as it unearths some anachronistic-sounding gems. My favorite is the slow hand funk of "Count Down to Zero," whose thick, springy bass line and claps propel the tune through choppy waves of aquamarine melodies and rippling delay. As with the rest of the EP, it's not quite dancing underwater, but it does take you back in the tides of time.
DOWNLOAD: John Daly - Count Down to Zero
