Category: House

FREE DOWNLOAD: Sandy B – Make The World Go Round (K & K 2014 remix)

It’s not often you come across a decent remix of an old track and the remixer is giving it away for free, but here is one!

DJ/Producers ‘K & K’ have done a complete rework of the classic ‘Make The World Go Round’ by Sandy B. They have taken that main bass pattern from the original and made it a lot deeper, over the top they have laid that awesome vocal and also added a load of stabs. This rework is huge! An amazing attempt and they have brought this into the modern day, wicked! Download it..

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FREE DOWNLOAD: Route 94 – Forget The Girl (The Squatters Remix)

I’m not usually one to go mad for big electro(y) basslines but this one grabbed me! This is a remix of the Route 94 track ‘Forget The Girl’ by The Squatters. It features a nice organ sound on the breakdown sat nicely underneath the vocal, there is a really nice build up, then BANG this huge bassline comes out of nowhere!

The Squatters were kind enough to put this on their Soundcloud as a free download so take full advantage and grab it while it’s hot! It’s getting hammered all over the big radio stations and in the clubs.

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Preview: Tim Cullen & Made By Pete – Full English

Something forthcoming on the mighty Grin Recordings by Tim Cullen & Made By Pete. I have been fortunate enough to see both of these producers play out; I met Tim at Ministry of Sound and had a chat, top guy. And I saw Made By Pete play in Brixton, top dj! Both are credible producers in their own right so you can imagine my excitement when I found out they have collaborated!

Now, I had to listen to this track a couple of times to be able to grasp everything that’s going on as their are little stabs and snippets coming from all directions, the more I hear it the more genius I think the production is. The attention to detail is amazing, and some great effects. I particularly like the old skool, big room orchestra stabs throughout. Plenty of build ups and breakdowns. I’ve said enough, just take my word for it and listen to it! The promo is getting some huge support from the top dj’s all over the globe already!

Available on 15th December, put it in your diary!

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Modium & Lizzie Curious – Let It Roll

Something brand new by Modium featuring the vocals of Lizzie Curious out on Whore House Records. This is a very high energy, piano driven track with a nice flow. I am familiar with Lizzie’s vocals from some of her previous tracks (I’ve even reviewed a few) and this one is up there with the rest of them. The whole track is married together perfectly with simple piano chord stabs, a big breakdown and build up, all before the big drop. This track just oozes summer, and it makes me smile when I hear it!

Available now on the Hoxton Whore’s label ‘Whore House Records’, go get it..

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Preview: Gordon John – Hot EP

Here is something forthcoming on Kidology London by a good friend of mine ‘Gordon John’. This is Gordon’s debut release on the label and what a banging two-track EP it is!

The first track on the EP is called ‘Hot For You’ and is a very upbeat, bouncy main room house track. Loads of energy in the main hook, even the non-dancers in a club would be bouncing around to it. The breakdown is really nice, loads of effects and the main riff playing throughout on piano then BOOM.. it drops! Big tune!

The second track is called ‘Booming’ which is another high energy banger, I love the continuous high stab throughout and the really deep warpy bassline, everything in this is married together so well. The breakdown is very atmospheric and drops so nicely into the bass riff for a few bars before bringing back in the hats and high stabs. Absolute genius, nice one Gordon! This is gonna get hammered!

Not quite sure of the release date on this yet, but I’ll keep you posted.

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Preview: Thomas Leigh – Give U

An absolute corker coming soon on Arcko Digital by producer ‘Thomas Leigh’ with two awesome remixes to boot. The original has a really nice repeating vocal with a flowing organ pattern and an old school stabby synth riff, all sat nicely over some cool, deep drums. Great track!

The remixes are by Arcko Digital’s very own D’Marco and Cor Caroli and both are slightly tougher than the original. D’Marco’s mix features a nice airy breakdown before a big snare fill and drop into a deep bass pattern, very nice. Cor Caroli’s remix takes full advantage of the organ pattern but adds some real nice drums and gives it a real big sound.

This is released on 17th November, I can’t wait!

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Dirty Secretz – Everything

Anyone who follows this blog will know that I follow Whartone Records closely. As hard as it is to say, this is probably my favourite Whartone release to date! Fresh from dj/producer ‘Dirty Secretz’ is this whopper of a track!

It’s difficult to know where to start when talking about this track as it seems to have everything (no pun intended!), from old skool piano’s, organ sounds, great vocals and a real sense of summer! I’ve actually left it quite late to talk about this track as it’s already climbing the Beatport charts, and rightly so! Check it out and you’ll understand. Definitely one for a banging dancefloor.

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Jungle Funk Recordings UK Vol. 1

One of the many perks to running a house music review website is that occasionally I get to feature tracks that I’ve produced and signed to labels. This is one of those occasions!

When producing, I usually team up with my radio co-host Barry Obzee, together we have had tracks released on a fair few labels and also have many more that are being released very soon. For this release, we managed to get signed to Canadian label ‘Jungle Funk Recordings’ which is owned and operated by Jerome Robins and Deko-Ze. We feel very privileged to have our track as a part of the brand new three-track compilation called ‘Jungle Funk Recordings UK Vol 1’. I am going to review all three individually:

House of Virus: Only You – Huge main room house track with some very distinct percussion and massive bass stab pattern on the drop. I really like the piano chords during the breakdown. I’m gonna hammer this in the clubs, it’s big!

Barry Obzee & Lawrence Friend: Bassline Pumpin – It’s hard to review our own track without sounding biased, but this one is full of energy, big techy basslines, synth patterns and stabs. The breakdown stays simple, builds up and has a nice pitched down spoken vocal before that high-energy drop. We’ve already tried and tested this one on the terrace of Space, Ibiza and it went down a treat!

Gordon John: Laying Down The Funk – This one is a definite for any main room set, just check out the bass pattern and you’ll see why! In this track, Gordon has fused together some big hatty tech drums with a seriously sharp and bouncy bass pattern. Honestly, you need to hear this!

Three completely different style tracks and all flying the British flag high. This whole release is available right now exclusive to Beatport for a few weeks before getting released on every platform. Check it..

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Preview: Made By Pete ft Penny F – Our Story

Now here is something I’m quite excited for the release of. I get sent a lot of music from day to day and this one stood out quite a bit. I don’t usually choose to review the deep, soulful & chilled house tracks but this one is simply beautiful and must be mentioned.

The whole release is forthcoming on Grin Recordings by producer ‘Made By Pete’, and the dub version is currently available on Toolroom’s Ibiza 2014 album. Now, before I heard this track I was familiar with the producer’s name as he previously remixed one of my favourite tracks a while back (DJ Spen ft Marc Evans – The Way You Love Me), which I have played a few times on my radio show and I still hammer it out today!

This release fuses together some lovely chilled piano chords and keys, sat over shuffly deep house drums and topped off with the amazing vocals from Penny F. This is feel good music at it’s very best, it almost takes you on a journey! Get the deckchairs out and pour yourself a cocktail, this is a proper chill-out anthem.

Due for release in October, and a little birdie told me that this will be complete with remixes from Electronic Youth, Long & Harris and Ben Remember… HUGE, Can’t wait!

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James The Cat – Robbin Bastard

Here’s something on Arcko Digital that I’m particularly excited about. Already having a popular following on the label, James The Cat has brought us this huge track and thrown in a couple of remixes too!

The original mix is nice and techy with an absolutely awesome bassline and some lovely chord stabs! I gotta be honest, I can’t find anything I don’t like about this track, it’s great throughout with loads of elements kicking in and dropping out constantly. Very well put together.

The first remix is by DJ Tweek and is a lot more upbeat, sounding like a very percussive old garagey grime track or an old filth electro track, I can’t decide! I like the acid sounding bass stabs throughout, big drops and lots of percussion. Very nice!

So, when I was sent this from the label, the label owner wrote something along the lines of ‘I think the Cor Caroli Remix will be your favourite’, well that was spot on, I like it that the label boss knows my style all too well! This remix is absolutely HUGE!! Not so long ago I featured an EP by Cor Caroli and he hasn’t disappointed this time, I’m a big fan! In this one he has literally catered for everything; big synth stabs, big bassline, big builds and big drops. I can’t wait to play this out.

My only grumble is that I’ll never get to play it on the radio as it says the word ‘bastard’, but I guess I could bleep it out! If you do anything today, then listen to this! Out NOW..

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Le Funnk ft Valerie M – Life Is The Way

Anyone who knows me will know that I have a close relationship with the family over at Kidology London, and recently they sent me this absolute gem! I was extremely proud to have the world exclusive first play of this track on our radio show and I’m very thankful for that.

This release is produced by Le Funnk and features the vocals of the talented Valerie M from the Freestylers. From pressing the play button this track is full of energy. The breakdown features some really nice classic piano chords coupled with some vocal stabs, then in comes some claps and a riser which builds everything up to an almighty drop. If big basslines are your thing then you’ll be all over this! After the drop is a huge warpy, old skool garage sounding bass riff that will blow a roof off.

Absolutely love this track, and it’s getting loads of attention from the big players! Available NOW!!

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