House News

Mercury are on fire. Already they are called the "new Swiss House Mafia".. with their brothers from Round Table Knights (on Made to Play) they are working on a new, funky, heavy energetic kind of house music. Here is Mercury's third single on Gomma. Three deep jams. Deeper then the last single. Paris House 1998.... and gospel percussion from the 20th century.... if you know what we mean...

Ok, to call this album long awaited or highly anticipated would be a non sequitur.


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Semtek leaves the comfort of his excellent Don't Be Afraid imprint to supply the third 12 inch on Andy Blake's In Plain Sight label, following stellar turns from YoungTee and Maarten Van Der Vleuten. It's not the first time Blake has called on the London-based producer's services - World Unknown devotees will remember the monolithic "Tacos For Dinner" cut in association with Chardonnay that appeared on that label's most recent 12". "Couer De Lyon" is a chunky house jam of the highest order; shuffling hats, a stripped back bassline and a vocal many of you will recognise from one of MK's most legendary remixes combine for a cut that overflows with sultry late night passion. Flip over for some soundtracky house in the shape of "Beaufort", an analogue jam in the mould of Legowelt that retains a club-ready potency and thus offers a more heads-down alternative to the A-Side.

Nicolas Audren aka DJ Steaw is a Dj / producer based in Rennes (France).
His productions reflect his inspiration for deep house, funk, afro and especially the raw old school elements in house music.
This release takes us back to the classic house sound somewhere in between Kerri Chandler & Mood II Swing and has been a secret weapon of ours for some time now.
From the funk & organ groove in 'I Want' to the lush chords and big piano breakdown in Sky Hunt.
House dancers and fanatics of good vibes be aware!
Essential is the right word for the White Journey EP.
Local Talk is talking to you!

Big Strick is back at it and this time he brings Generation Next the first artist from the 7 Days camp to emerge from the city streets of the D. Only 16 this young man is shaping up to be one of the premier producers in the Biz!! He is the Future!!

Great new Kojak Giant Sounds 12" straight out of Finland. Deep euphoric vocal house music, while the b side is more stripped back with haunted vocals. Very limited copies... these won't last long.

Score one for isolation.' - The New York Times

'Scrappy, homemade, lush and simultaneously familiar and completely foreign.' - The Fader

'It sounds like what would have happened if that sax scene from Lost Boys swapped the beefcake with the ponytail and greasy torso for Arthur Russell in post-disco mode, plus some astral synths and elephant noises(). It's dance music, clearly.' - Stereogum

When I See You Again', from Canyons' 2011 debut Keep Your Dreams, is a slice of the most relaxed paradise you could imagine. Tribal drums, slinky synth lines, Balearic beats and a little saxophone - the song should come with a Pina Colada.
Remixes from Morgan Geist, Nick Zinner, of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Canyons themselves

London based Welshman Chamboche returns to the label that launched him with the Smoke Screen EP. His unquantifiable sound swerves genre classification, hovering around house but with enough musicality to please the hardened disco head.
Swirling pads and a bubbling bass line set down the groove, while keys fall around horns and vocals to make the lead track a refined, uplifting work out. Slowly unfolding, the track is hypnotic and absorbing, showcasing the style of a producer as able to work the mind as the hips.

Bicep toughen up the drums and work the arpeggio, stripping down the track and bringing the Chicago influence higher in the mix. While the original subtly unfolds, their remix demands attention from the outset, building to a climax then recoiling for another bite at the cherry.

Thinking big, KRL ramps up the intensity with a bright, kinetic reworking. Aimed squarely at the peak time, he harnesses all of Smoke Screen's most propulsive elements to really work the floor.

Tucked away on the B side is the expansive Mind Your Mind. Trademark Chamboche percussion is woven around a blissful riff, swelling majestically to round off the EP in slo(w) burning euphoria.

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After a string of successful collaborations and remixes - including an ace one one of ours, Nicolas Jaar's 'Space Is Only Noise', we are delighted to present Dave Aju's sophomore album, Heirlooms.
It's always exciting to hear new music from Mr. Aju, as he consistently offers a fresh approach to the usual dance music formulas with an undeniable sense of soul and singular artistry. This is especially true on his new album, where Aju has really outdone himself with his most diverse, expressive, and personal work to date. Crafted with vintage recordings and instruments inherited from his late father, Aju taps into his roots and musical background more than ever on Heirlooms, taking us on a ten-song journey through past and present influences and a variety of moods, from proper heartfelt tributes to spaced-out bliss and straight-up funk.

Join the Dots reaches it's dirty dozen in the form of Leeds based noiseniks 'Death on the Balcony'. After a year of rather big releases, hanging out with Wolf & Lamb, Soul Clap and other assorted cool cats and playing a hectic schedule of gigs across the world that literally saw fans throwing themselves (from a ruddy great height apparently) at our boys they now contribute DOT012 to the JTDs family.Whilst being described as everything from disco, house, deep techno and any number of other pointless monikers (these are just their own descriptions we should add). Death on the Balcony have you could say come home to roost. Think of us as their crash mat, their safety harness, their bungee cord. We are going to look after them whilst they just sit back and admire the view.Whether they are moon lovers or have had an experience of being caught in a rip-tide, dragged out to sea and marooned on a dessert island with nothing but a generator, a macbook pro and a copy of Reason, lead track 'Change In The Tide' name aside, contains nothing to link it with either experience, whilst 'Far From Home' continues the marooned on a desert island theme but is actually a huge star-gazer tune, stacked with soaring vocals and kick that whilst hidden under the layers of synth action is never lost again. The B side heads further down the to the low end of the bass spectrum. Both tracks could be described as 'chugging'. 'Look To Higher Ground' would be the perfect place from which to catch sight of passing ships whilst it is also is flooded with the darker side of cosmic influences, voices flutter, riding the groove, all of which is whipped massively into shape by growling bass line. 'Visions' being the effect of sunstroke is also a piano laden bass driven throdder (as opposed to thrapper), a ton of reverb and looped vocal and yet more piano stabs. It's a choice piece of warm up gear if ever there was one.

Typical of the Berlin-based project Funkwerkstatt, the original version casually strolls along in a housey pace.

2x12" in White Vinyl! Girl Unit returns with a double EP of his most advanced material yet. In true NS style we present 6 brand new transcendental club tracks from the super-hot producer. Vinyl edition on 2 x white 12".
The Club Rez EP consists of two halves. The first is informed by lead cut "ENSEMBLE" - a mechanised Freestyle party track / robotic beach jam comprised of machine drums, Pulse bass and glossy John "Jellybean" Benitez-inspired breakdowns. The balance between pop sensibility and dancefloor bomb here is unparalleled.
"CAKE BOSS" is a bull-headed tantrum in the club. A relentless blunt stabbing lead delivers punishment as rimshots clatter and toms jack around the 4x4 kick, the whole thing saturated in tape FX.
A subway ride downtown leads to the "PLAZA", another Freestyle-influenced cut, sort of a trackier, loop-driven cousin of "Ensemble". Pro-1 horns and arping bass trade places with stripped back segments of rubbery, efficient drum funk.
The tone for the EP's second half is set on with "DOUBLE TAKE", a cantankerous track that takes some drum programming cues from the Bay Area. As the hydraulics of the intro give way to the drop, the track is engulfed in gloopy bass hits and bubbling oily globules of leads to devastating effect. At the end the track segues into what GIrl Unit describes as a preview of "Double Take 2", fading out on an unexpected sublime moment.
"REZDAY" (or Rezzurection Day), a relative of the EP's title track, is a sports action movie theme, built and reinforced for conflict. Colossal synth horns and layers of guitar synths are driven forward by extreme metal-style pedal kicks as pterodactyls scream and fireworks fizz overhead.
Finally, "CLUB REZ". The crisp digital environment is quickly filled with searing beams of trance synths, growing to an overwhelming size before dropping out to a huge 808 kick pounding the track rhythmically (hence the 'Club' in the title). "Club Rez" echoes Girl Unit's previous work, but it's executed with such light-touch restraint, the results are truly euphoric.

Kevin McKay has been producing records since the early 90s. His early work as Muzique Tropique found favour with DJs as varied as Andy Weatherall, Dubfire, Roger Sanchez and Danny Tenaglia. Recording with Omid 16B as Sixteen Souls he made "On My Mind" one of the all-time anthems at the legendary Sir Henry's in Cork. In the 00s he discovered Mylo and set up the Breastfed label going on to co-produce & mix "Destroy Rock & Roll". As the producer/programmer half of Linus Loves he was responsible for the massive club hits "The Terrace" and "Night Music". Since 2007 he has been running the Heartbeats label (home to Grum) and in 2011 he relaunched Glasgow Underground.
"The Rushes" is all about that spine-tingling, sweat-drenched moment on the dancefloor when the combination of beats, basslines and chord-changes delivers a fully-loaded smiling experience. If "Where's Molly" is asking the questions, "The Rushes" delivers the answer.
Small Pyramids is LA-based producer & dj Zach Hunsaker. Zach's debut release, the classy space-disco "I Want Blood" was one of DJ magazine's Singles of 2012. His recent tripped-out rework of Mary Epworth's "Black Doe" sparked an internet sharing spree with tastemaker sites like Mixmag, LaGaSta & Golden Scissors featuring the mix.
"The Music" is the perfect record to get the party started pool-side: warm keys, a bumpin' disco baseline and a killer vocal hook make the kind of slow-burning house record that sounds best in the sunshine.
Franky Redente is a London dj and producer. As one half of Photo 51, his remix of Romanthony's classic "The Wanderer" found its way into Seth Troxler's playlist and on to DC10's closing party dancefloor.
"What You Want" is all about the bassline. The keys shimmer hypnotically and the drums make a real impact on the system but the long, snaking baseline - part analogue funk, part piano house - delivers the real wiggle element to this dancefloor monster.

The two brothers known as Kyodai strike back, showcasing their phenomenal musical education on Local Talk.
What else to expect from a duo that gained respect from musical heavy weights like Masters At Work, Jimpster, Gilles Peterson and releases on Freerange & Nitelife.
On 'Breaking' the beats and bassline are in constant motion, building the track with suble hooks into an epic breakdown which tears the track apart and then rebuilds it even bigger.
The 90's mix is a stripped down version of the original, with "that" organ hook we all love and refuse to stop dancing too, accompanied with strings and percussion that ties the whole track together and brings back memories of a hot and sweaty sunday afternoon at Body & Soul, in the 90's!
Local Talk is talking to you!

Leon Vynehall's extremely assured debut reeks of class, evoking a time when he was probably being told by his mother what shoes to wear, instead of keeping up with day-to-day developments in underground dance music.

The three tracks present here are dark, dubby warehouse tools stripped down to their fundamentals. Both "Mauve" and "Homage" share a similar energy. They bounce along on a bed of bass, synth stabs, pianos and vocal samples which range from the lightly spoken to the soulful. Although they are both very functional, they cover an awful lot of ground. "Picture Frame" drops the tempo, and goes back a decade further in time. It's an '80s honey dripper whose bittersweet chords wouldn't sound out of place in the sets of Soul Clap or Wolf + Lamb, and whose sonic sequences have been mirrored in the work of newer artists such as Beaumont."

Support from Tazz, Melon, Roman Fluegel, Dan Curtin, Arnaud Le Texier, John Osborn, Ethyl & KRL.

second release for slapfunk!
strong ep by malin génie!
like with no.1 - 500 copies - no repress!

Keeping within the spirit of this year's Record Store Day, and the celebration of vinyl culture, Phuture Shock Musik drop an exclusive vinyl-only remix package of Mr Mageeka's 'Vintage Malarkey', featuring sensational reworks by none other than Dego; best known as one half of the legendary 4Hero - whom have long set the standard for true innovation in British electronic dance music, as well as being a veteran producer in his own right, under countless aliases and side projects such as Tek 9, 2000black and Nutmeg.