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Digging In The Crates: September DJ Chart

Here’s a bunch of tracks across Deep house, club trax, 90s house and garage, soulful house, downtempo and electronica! EPs, albums and compilations–all the good stuff. Happy digging people!

1. Lady Monix - Steppin’ Out (12” MAC Mix)

Kicking off this chart with some club stuff. Lady Monix appeared to me through Byron The Aquarius showing love to her on his instagram feed. I investigated and also found some nice tracks on the Bandcamp page. This 12” MAC Mix one was my favourite of the upbeat and throbbing deep-house tracks on this EP, with a little acid treat. 

2. Eddie Logix - Baby Girl

This whole release is fire. Really good production style on the funky house tip. Loopy sample based bits and then this deep house number. Plenty of mad shoutouts from the pros on this release:
“Nice release. My favs are Que Locos sound like fresh updated Acid jazz dance style & Sunday Palaver” -Kai Alcé [NDATL]

3. Groove Boys Project, Ava Baya - Something Special

French deep house outfit Groove Boys Project is a live and DJ set based duo. Plenty of leaning into the 90s deep house sound of NYC. I would reference this work as an incarnation of Playin’ 4 The City, continuing the Paris jazzy deep house sound.

4. Nick Holder - Dream

This track is really simple with not many elements but the sample just keeps rolling around and has a building sense of emotion. I listened to this on the train and watching the scenery roll along it came together well with the music.

5. Noel Nanton - Black Jacks

Sample rhythm madness! Come git sum..

6. Loleatta Holloway - Heart Stealer (The Freddy Bastone Mix)

The 90’s house sound has been hitting nicely for a while now. As disco has enjoyed a strong revitalisation in popular culture, the natural progression was for the origins of modern house music to enjoy similar vein of success. The 90s is where so much of the innovation, the blueprint was established that would set the bar for the next 30+ years of electronic music. Now when I listen through these tracks much of this style has been poorly replicated but without the musicality. Enter revered collector/DJ Jeremy Underground, who has compiled this compilation for Dave Lee’s ZR records titled 90’s House & Garage. Its full of rarities and little known mixes of tracks. There are so many great tracks (22 tracks on the compilation) on this, take your pick.

7. Eastwest Connection - Nothing Can Hold Us Back

Released in 2000 on Chillifunk Records it was only on available on CD. It features a well rounded selection of Deep House, Acid Jazz and Downtempo vibes. A soulful and musical release featuring plenty of live playing and a few classy vocal tunes like Once I’ve Been There featuring vocals by Peter Troutman.  

8. Scott Grooves - Flute Riddum

This one is a nice journey of a deep house track. The main theme is a 32 bar flute line that has elements evolving around it but definitely the sort of track that you want to let play for a bit so people can get into it. Nice drumming solo also adds interest and intensity later in the track. Released in 2009 on his own Modified Suede Recordings.

9. Mosley Jr - Lonestar Retreat

I’m featuring the album here but leaving this broken beat number as the face of it. I really dig this production style that has this lo-fi tape edge without taking it off the cliff. As an album it flows nicely leaning into the occasional club track (Lonestar Retreat), while keeping a moody storyline throughout. It’s an album of warped textures spliced into a non-cookie cutter electronic mould which I find interesting. I think fans of Max Graef will appreciate this.

10. Durand Jones & The Indications - Sea Gets Hotter

I heard this song in the Kith Fall promotional video featuring veteran actor Wesley Snipes. He’s on vacation somewhere in the woods, enjoying the peace and serenity of a holiday in solitude while this track plays out to his activities. What impressed me about this song was it’s overall composition and authenticity and the unique falsetto vocals of Aaron Frazer. This soul number comes from their second album (released 2019). You can grab it on Bandcamp.

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