“Selfish Beat” - Funky synth melody married to a classic house beat make the title track one of the standouts on this EP from the Montréal based duo. It’s tough to really put a finger on what makes this one so fun to listen to, but it just oozes good times.

“Good Feeling” - The aptly named “Good Feeling,” lends from it’s predecessor in regards to funky melody and classic house feel. Various vocal distortions make up the majority of the melody which can’t help but make you want to groove all night. Chances are if you ever took part in … Continue…

Every now and then you come across something that goes straight to the heart. Percardins sound in ”Los Reyes” did exactly that for me. A beautifully balanced deep house EP to be used as well in the more funky as in the deep and arty end of the genre. The title track ”Los Reyes” is the gem in the crown. Its soft and rising with pads and adistinct but smooth bass, but yet with some really punchy rythm production. This 4 track release continues with the layed back ”All I Need” and the brilliant more dance floor peak-oriented Warschaurer Strasse”. … Continue…

Eric Volta is a quite low profile type of producer who despite this fact has many years of deep house under his belt. From his debut until his resent release on Claude Von Strokes “Dirtybird Records” he´s been on labels such as Ellum , Beef Records, Safari Numerique, Evolution Recordings, Domina Productions and more.

This is to a big degree a vocal house producer and his voice of choice for quite a few releases has been UK Hip-Hop´s Terrafirma´s  D.  Ablo so why break a working formula? He is also featured in this upcoming release on Ellum that is … Continue…

Don Disco & Jeremiah – The Whistle song

Austrian house producers Peter Kremeier and Christian Mahringer started up the long time running label GROW! In 1995. About 1998 I got a hold of a brilliant release on above label on which the two of them call them selves Don Disco and Jeremiah. After this they kept releasing tracks under these names both together and apart. The Whistel Song is in this case a crappy title since its neither a song or has any whistles in it what so ever. As you probably know there are also several tracks with … Continue…

Over the last year, three labels quickly became the new power houses in the deep house genre. Crosstown Rebels, Hot Creations and Culprit. Well now it is 2012 and its time to add one more label to that list. Im talking about Hypercolour.


With releases from big names such as Maya Jane Coles, Youandewan, Mark Henning, Huxley, i could make list longer but i think we all get it. They started this year right where they left off in 2011. Mixing big name releases with up and coming talent. The thing that makes this … Continue…

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Defecteds,  always a little cooler under label 4th floor, released an “animalistically” good deep house track in 2001 that me and many of my fellow deep house enthusiasts since has carried in our bags all over the globe.  Johnny D.  & Nicky P.  get loose on the Brookly zoo. From the release I choose the obvious “A Wild Kingdom”. This is as classy as it gets!!

by Bowyer Hawks of LAW recordings

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Turn the record over and let’s DISCO! The line obviously brings good vibes to any kind of house floor at any time of the evening. The day I got Mathew Herberts brilliant album “Parts Remixed” in my hands, my concept of deep house was forever changed. I do love the soulful jazzy American style a lot but here we had something that at the time was really new. So minimal, so slow and so deep. On my “10 best deep house tracks of all time”-list for sure!

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With its skippy style backbeat, this one may be a little tricky to sync at first, (manually on vinyl that is) but rehearsing it a few times is well worth it because this is the killer of spiritual afro funk feel! It was originally released on slip n Slide back in 1998 but I have the 3 way music version. Blaze as a group is pretty much the origins of what is referred to as “Gospel House”. It was formed by Josh Milan, Kevin Hedge, and Chris Herbert in New Jersey … Continue…