Best of the Week: 31/03/2010

From the way that it makes you move or the way it makes your head feel, music works its way inside you, demanding listen after listen until you’re hooked. The playlist this week does just that, with hip-hop from either side of the Atlantic, a metronome led piece of disco trickery, an gorgeous nod to Chicago house in the golden days, the sounds of techno pushed through a dubstep rhythm, and a hero of the club scene over the last two years brings us a hot new talent.

The Strong Arm Steady long player ‘In Search of Stoney Jackson’ has its moments, but really memorable tracks were few and far between, this throwback to bygone days when hip-hop was fun and had great sampled beats will make you wanna chill and roll a fat one/Strong Arm Steady-Best of Times feat. Phonte

So prolific right now, Londoner Paul White’s recent output is hard to keep up with, but make the effort because the quality is of the highest order. This typically eccentric sample mash up is out now on Now Again Records/Paul White-Ancient Treasures

Fans of Cosmo Vitelli’s I’m A Cliché label know what to expect here, with the head honcho delivering, under the guise of Bot’Ox, a typically sleazy, bleep heavy, piece of cranking disco. Also available is a rework by Azari & III/Bot’Ox-Blue Steel

If you heard this in a club, you might ask yourself, wow this old piece of Chicago house is well produced for something made back in the day. That is because this track from The Revenge came out this year on their Home Taping Is Killing Music imprint. Fans of Marshall Jefferson or Frankie Knuckles really need to hear this/The Revenge-Forever In Their Debt (Original Mix)

Another great release from Hotflush Recordings, this latest effort from label manager Scuba is perhaps his best yet, sitting somewhere between classic techno of Transmat Records and the funky minimalism of early Doc Scott/Scuba-You Got Me

Scots Clouds have been brought to the club scenes attention by the one and only Fake Blood, a man with a big, brash and heavy club sound hard to match, and this track follows a similar path, destructive kicks underpin a crazy bass line and various horns and whistles, the whole thing perfect for both dancer and DJ/Clouds-Eyes


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Best of the Week: 24/03/2010

Whether it glitches or grooves, distorts or harmonizes, you still gotta dance to it, and this week the selection fits just that formula. Tastings from New York, Hamburg and the UK, take in indie disco, shimmering deep house, and the new school imaginings of the British bass scene.

UK based Sully is a producer mixing pure Warp-style electronica with booming dubstep, and in the process making some seriously cool dance floor IDM, this track is out on Keysound/Sully-In Some Pattern

Underpinned by a truly unique rhythm, this excellent remix from Ramadanman builds to a blistering tribal intensity disrupted by mutated pads and bleeps, showcasing two of the dubstep scenes most consistent talents/Scuba-Tense (Ramadanman remix)

French based duo John & Jehn are a group worth checking out in their own right, but this remix from new disco darlings Mighty Mouse is something else, turning the track into a indie jam so catchy this will be stuck in your head all day long/John & Jehn-Lookin’ For You (Mighty Mouse NYC Sensations remix)

Hamburger Tensnake is another disco/house producer set for a huge 2010 on the back of some incredible productions. This subtle but effective cut is from his recent EP on Permanent Vacation/Tensnake-Coma Cat

Prolific yet nothing less than incredibly consistent, New Yorker Falty DL always makes a mash up of rave samples, dubstep rhythms, clicks and feedback, into something more than the sum of its parts. This is from his All In The Place EP out now on Rush Hour/Falty DL-St. Marks


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