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Route 94 - 4Get The Girl (Mellizos Remix)
Read more . . . →Heard this out of a passing car with the windows down and clocked the piano before I clocked the artist. “4Get The Girl” is Route 94, the guy responsible for “My Love,” that inescapable 2014 deep-house number, and the Mellizos remix drags it somewhere sweatier and more direct. It’s built on a vocal loop and a piano stab that’s pure UK house lineage, the kind of chord progression that’s been putting hands in the air since the early nineties. Mellizos keep the groove rolling and resist over-producing it. The drums stay dry and punchy, the bass stays simple, and the...
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John Alto - Waiting For
Read more . . . →John Alto’s “Waiting For” slid right into my rotation without asking for permission. It’s deep, melodic house that sits in that late-night, top-down-drive pocket, all warm chords and a bassline you feel more than hear. It never reaches for a huge festival drop, and that restraint is the whole reason it works; the track is about the groove staying locked while little details drift in and out around it. There’s a vocal sample buried low in the mix, pitched and looped until the words dissolve into pure texture, and it’s the glue holding everything together. The kick is soft and...
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Calcou - 24 (Live from Leipzig)
Read more . . . →If you’ve written deep house off as background music for hotel lobbies, Calcou would like a word. “24,” recorded live in Leipzig, is the sound of the genre with a proper pulse and a full room in front of it. You can genuinely hear the space on this recording — the low end has that slightly loose, physical quality that studio versions tend to sand right off, and there’s a faint wash of crowd sitting underneath the whole thing that tells you this actually happened, that people were present and moving while it did. The groove is deep and patient,...
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Feiertag, Jody Wisternoff & James Grant - Nomad
Read more . . . →Anjunadeep in full sunset mode, and I’m not remotely mad about it. “Nomad” pairs Feiertag’s live-band warmth with the Wisternoff and Grant production polish, and the result is deep house that actually breathes — real-sounding drums, a bassline with genuine give in it, none of that rigid grid stiffness that plagues the genre. It unfolds slowly, the way the best Anjunadeep tracks always do, layering in elements until around 3:30 when the groove hits full stride and you realize you’ve been nodding along without even noticing you started. Jody Wisternoff has been doing this for literally decades and his fingerprints...
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Chasing Kurt - From The Inside (Reznik Remix)
Read more . . . →The bassline walks in on the offbeat and never sits down — that’s the whole engine of Reznik’s remix of “From The Inside,” and it’s enough. Defected doesn’t put its name on things that don’t work on a dancefloor, and this is a pure floor tool: a rolling, hypnotic house groove that locks in around the 2:00 mark and refuses to let go. Chasing Kurt’s original vocal gets chopped and looped until it’s more rhythmic than lyrical, riding on top of a kick that’s mixed exactly right — present without being a headache. This is the kind of track that...
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Nordfold - Collide
Read more . . . →The bassline on “Collide” walks. It’s got that rolling, slightly rubbery deep-house pulse that Anjunadeep has basically trademarked, and the whole track locks into it within the first thirty seconds and never lets go. Nordfold keeps everything patient here: a vocal snippet floating in the distance, a pad that swells and recedes, and percussion that clicks and shuffles just enough to keep your head moving. It’s late-night music, the 2am-in-a-dark-room kind, built for the deep-house lane where the point isn’t the drop but the groove holding steady while small details drift in and out. Around 3:00 a filtered synth line...
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Heirloom - Oh Don't Tell (Live from Bush Hall, London)
Read more . . . →A live band recording on Anjunadeep is the last thing I expected to be my favourite find this week, and yet here we are. “Oh Don’t Tell” was captured at Bush Hall in London and you can actually hear the room in it — the slight bloom on the vocal, the way the bass guitar breathes instead of loops. Heirloom sit in this hazy space between electronic and live indie where the drum machine and a real kit seem to be having a quiet conversation. The song itself is a slow-burn heartbreak thing, all restraint and held tension, and the...
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kiskadee, Jody Wisternoff & James Grant - Friendly Fire (feat. Ren Ocean)
Read more . . . →There’s a bassline in Friendly Fire that walks in on the offbeat and just refuses to leave, and it’s the reason this Anjunadeep cut lodged in my head for a full afternoon. Jody Wisternoff and James Grant have been steering this label’s melodic-house sound for years — Wisternoff was making records before half the Anjunadeep roster was born — and pairing them with kiskadee and Ren Ocean’s vocal gives the track a human warmth the genre sometimes forgets to include. It’s deep house that actually moves rather than just shimmering prettily in place, the groove doing real work under all...
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Inner City - Pennies From Heaven (DJ Paulette In For a Pennies Remix)
Read more . . . →Hearing Inner City again in 2026 does something to my chest I wasn’t prepared for. Pennies From Heaven is a piece of Detroit history, Kevin Saunderson and Paris Grey’s fingerprints all over the original, and DJ Paulette’s remix treats it with exactly the right mix of reverence and irreverence. She keeps Grey’s vocal front and center, because you’d be an idiot not to, and rebuilds the floor underneath into something that would work in a Manchester basement at 2am today. The bassline has that rolling, warm quality that modern house spends fortunes trying to recreate and rarely nails. What Paulette...
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LAR - Rewind
Read more . . . →LAR has a real feel for the slow burn, and Rewind is patient in a way that pays off if you actually let it. It’s deep house built for the small hours — hypnotic, understated, far more interested in groove and texture than in any big dramatic moment. The hook works by repetition, looping just long enough to lodge itself somewhere behind your eyes before a subtle shift quietly pulls you forward. The Anjunadeep world is the obvious home for this kind of restrained, atmospheric thing, and LAR fits the brief without ever sounding interchangeable with the rest of the...
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