Sarrass - Home At The Sea / Breathe

Long playing and progressive deeper house from the Compost Black Label series, introducing newcomer Sarass with a cool two tracker. 'Home At The Sea' is built with long mixes in mind and develops some well poised crowd-teasing elements, while 'Breathe' on the flip is a classier Chicago via NYC slow burner, made for fans of Jerome Sydenham, Dennis Ferrer and the more sophisticated end of the spectrum.

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Marco Carola - The Tribe

Marco Carola revisits his M_nus sublabel 2M with two warm and tribalish house cuts for the stylin' Europhiles. 'The Tribe' uses a palette of warm and analogue sounding drums with rolling bass and non-synthetic horns to work up a very crowd friendly vibe, while 'Drumming' on the flip strips back to the essentials with a minimised groove gradually developing layers of live percussion into a useful tracky house DJ tool.

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2000 And One - Heritage

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Claro Intelecto - Warehouse Sessions

This long awaited cd compilation marks the end of Mark Stewart's 'Warehouse Sessions', with all the tracks in the series re-mastered at Berlin's dubplates and mastering including a bonus, previously unreleased track, 'W6' available for the first time. The first 12" in the series was released back in early 2006, designed, honed and tweaked for the floor with a shift in focus towards more stripped-down and minimally constructed 4/4 variations with the headier end of the warehouse in mind. "New Dawn"rotates on a heavy slug of post-industrial genius taking the metallic clunk of Monolake/T++ slowed right down and married with the faint ghost of Rhythm and Sound. "X" domiated volume three and is perhaps the best known track in the series - delivering a gargantuan chug through a barely contained 4/4 spasm, underpinned by distorted stabs and a hollow line in thumping kick-drums. It's all fairly restrained until the half-way mark when things suddenly go deep under the influence - a live session of warbling dub stabs fed through a widescreen echo-chamber making for a low-end psychosis that's just devastating. "Only Yesterday" was written in homage to Mr Fingers, a slow, deep, pulsating House classic utilising a sick padded bass progression, caressed by pristine hi-hats and very little else. "Instinct" opened volume four with a percussive spine so crisp and spacious it almost threw us off our chairs the first time we heard it, while "Post" on the flipside pushed us a few hours deeper into the night with a twilight carousel of sparkling keys and another one of those endlessly cavernous basslines, venturing into a classic breakdown that brought those keys back. "Hunt You Down", meanwhile, deploys a shocking Maurizio style dub workout in 4/4 that makes use of a relentlessly sharp and deep signature, accompanied by stretched chords and metallic shards that subvert the track throughout its 11 minute duration. The final edit included on the compilation, W6, was taken from the last Warehouse sessions and is available only on this format.

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Dirt Crew - Soundwave

Dirt Crew's 'Soundwave' gets reworked by Quarion and Filippo Moscatello, backed up by original Dirt Crew track 'Blow'. The Quarion remix gets the EP underway with a nicely delay-saturated stab sound that maintains a kind of watery momentum over the course of its eight minutes, while Moscatello opts for a slightly rougher sound with heavy use of synthesizer lines and punchy kick sounds. Finally, 'Blow' introduces a looser feel with a solid house beat holding together spaced out edits and sample interjections.

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Cobblestone Jazz - 23 Seconds

A whopping triple LP outing for the Candian jazz/techno fusionists Cobblestone Jazz, which for the uninitiated, comprises Mathew Jonson, Danuel Tate and Tyger Dhula. Traditionally, Tate's keyboard work has given Cobblestone Jazz a distinctive live feel, but launching into the opening title track here there's no real evidence of that, instead everything has more of a programmed sound to it, albeit with a lively, analogue warmth. Elements of Rhodes and smooth chord changes start to appear in 'Slap The Back', and on the next side 'PBD (LP Edit)' features a bit of soloing, but the overall feel is one of silky movements within a fairly fastened-down techno framework. 'Hived Touch' is far more interesting, exhibiting some big bass and substantial, muffled beat production, yet this sort of minimalism is abandoned altogether for 'Lime In Da Coconut' which marks a departure for sunnier, more playful sounds. Even the beat seems to have a spring in its step. More overtly jazzy numbers crop up towards the end of the album, with the vocoder funk of 'W (LP Edit)' standing out in particular. Cobblestone Jazz have clearly honed and streamlined their approach to music-making since their debut 12" five years ago, and as a result the potentially quite jarring elements of live instrumentation and programmed electronics sound as though they've reached a natural balance on 23 Seconds.


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Beat Pharmacy - Wikkid Times

Brendan Moeller's fourth album as Beat Pharmacy features a heavy vocal presence, weaving together engaging verses and streamlined techno-influenced dub in a fashion that's bound to provoke all kinds of comparisons, perhaps most pointedly the contemporary bass manoeuvres of Kode9 - an especially resonant reference since the album benefits from a couple of Spaceape collaborations: "Strangers' and 'Ghostship', both of which bring a real intensity to the album, which finds a nice contrast and counterpoint in the lyrical melodica lines of 'Time', a far more propulsive production, reaching a galloped pace in its final phase. Paul St Hilaire shows up for a couple of tracks, most notably on the dark, soulful 'Sunshine', his voice taking on a phantom-like presence among the skeletal dub stutters from Moeller's arsenal of synths. As dominant and commanding as the various guest vocals are (contributed by Coppa, Ras B, Infinity and Damon Aaron in addition to those already mentioned), Moeller's production is expertly judged, knowing when to flourish and when to keep to the shadows. Excellent.

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