Check out any house chart these days and you might just find it loaded with vapid, two-dimensional tunes that contain nothing but a hip-hop sample and a cookie-cutter bass-line. Dig into this chart and you will find nothing of the sort.
For the sake of both continuity and consistency, melodic techno is a side of the genre which is normally left off of the monthly chart but James Harcourt‘s brilliant, new title track should not go without mentioning.
On just the fourth ever release via 18437, Nico Lahs dishes out three very hazy ones using his NLXLB moniker. All are brilliant in their own right but the track, “Dazed Dreams” goes the extra mile with luscious, minor chords the are simply divine.
This super bouncy tune may sound similar to “Loud Places” by Jamie XX but it’s actually a remix of a ’70s afro-funk classic by Idris Muhammad. It’s a gift that really just keeps on giving and giving.
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Just three months after he unleashed his sparkling debut album on Heist Recordings, the Bristol-born producer known as Crackazat is back on the label with more fresh material on the jazz-house tip. “Demucha” is the E.P.’s title track which received Essential New Tune treatment from Pete Tong this past Friday but “We Know” is the one that really does it for me.
Fresh on the dance music production scene is Yannick Roberts, a Dutch artist who makes their premiere on none other than Freerange with four deep Detroit cuts that all carry their own weight.
Since Travis Emmons released his cover of “Redbone” earlier this year, it’s been a hit on dance-floors all over the world so it’s only fitting that it get a second life in the form of a fresh, new remix from the label-boss himself: Glasgow Underground‘s own, Kevin McKay.
