Defected coming through with this one, and Defected putting Solardo’s name on a record means it’s going to do exactly one thing: take over every dancefloor it touches. Solardo are the Manchester duo who basically run a chunk of the modern UK house scene, and here they’ve taken Sabrina Johnston’s vocal — a genuine house classic that’s been sampled and worshipped for years — and rebuilt the whole thing around their groove. Sabrina Johnston’s voice over a Solardo bassline is the kind of pairing that makes house music worth defending to people who think all dance music sounds the same. It sits around that 128 mark and rolls, with this slick, throwback feel that drags you straight back to the deep house golden run of the early 2010s without sounding like a museum piece. The bass is bouncy, the vocal is huge, and there’s that one bit where it strips back and lets Sabrina just carry it before the whole thing slams back in. Pure dancefloor mechanics, done by people who’ve done it a thousand times. Extended mix, obviously, because the radio edit wasn’t long enough to actually let the groove cook, and a track like this lives in the long version where the DJ can ride it. Throw it on at a barbecue, throw it on at 3am, it works in both rooms. Solardo don’t really miss. This isn’t the one that breaks the streak.
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