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Shoby - back to friends
Read more . . . →Sensual Musique is a channel that does exactly what its name suggests — the music is warm, late night, and built for situations where you want something that doesn’t demand your full attention but rewards it if you give it. Shoby’s back to friends is exactly that. The vocal is chopped and processed enough to feel atmospheric rather than song-like, which is exactly the right call here. The bassline groove is patient. This is deep house that isn’t in any rush to prove it’s deep house, which is usually a good sign. Deep house has been underrepresented on this blog...
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18 days out: the EDC 30th anniversary tracks worth loading before Vegas
Read more . . . →18 days until 150,000 people descend on the Nevada desert, and EDC’s 30th anniversary lineup is actually trying. Kaskade’s back on a proper label, FISHER’s got a collab that shouldn’t work but does, and Subtronics and Excision are apparently competing to see who can make the ugliest sound. Here’s what’s on the pre-game playlist. 1. Kaskade ft. EZI - Freedom Deep house for the drive out. Kaskade went back to OM Records — the label that basically built this sound — and “Freedom” lands right in that late-night, open-road pocket. EZI’s voice is the whole thing. 2. FISHER & Tones...
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Saco, Bram Bos - Never Going Home
Read more . . . →Bram Bos is primarily known for iOS music apps — Rozeta, Grooverider, Kosmonaut — and watching that guy make a straight deep house track is genuinely interesting. Never Going Home with Saco has the DNA of someone who thinks about sound design at a more granular level than most producers, and it shows in the texture work. The track has a slight lo-fi quality that feels deliberate rather than lazy. There’s warmth here without any of the manufactured “we’re being warm” feeling that a lot of deep house suffers from. The groove is minimal — just enough to keep things...
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MCN2, rivve - Brighter Days
Read more . . . →MCN2 and rivve do something smart here: the title promises “brighter days” and the production actually delivers it, which sounds obvious but is harder than it seems when you’re working with deep house instrumentation that naturally trends moodier. The chords are warm without being saccharine. There’s a real sense of forward motion to this — it doesn’t sit in one place and brood, it moves. Sensual Musique has been consistent in finding this specific register of deep house and putting it in front of people who need it. The lead vocal is minimal enough that it doesn’t overpower the groove,...
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Josh One vs Salomé Le Chat - Contemplation (King Britt Funke Remix)
Read more . . . →The title alone should get you in the mood. King Britt doing a funke remix of something called Contemplation — that’s a very specific vibe and it delivers exactly what it promises. Josh One vs Salomé Le Chat is already an interesting pairing on its own, but King Britt’s remix takes the original somewhere deeper. This is Defected doing what Defected does best — finding house tracks with genuine soul and giving them to the right people to make them something else entirely. The groove in this is the kind you don’t notice until you’re already moving. There’s an organ...
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Toolroom Ibiza 2026 - House Mix
Read more . . . →The house version of the Toolroom Ibiza series. Same sunny vibe, fewer snares. Works either way. Buy / stream this track → More like this Toolroom Ibiza 2026 - Tech House Mix Basement Jaxx - Jump N' Shout (Gorgon City Remix) Selena Faider, Laura Davie, Lewis John - So True
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Solardo vs Key To Life ft. Sabrina Johnston - Forever (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →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....
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Oden & Fatzo x Barney Bones - My Temptations (Live from Defected Malta)
Read more . . . →Live from Defected Malta, which, let’s be honest, sounds like a fairly enviable way to spend an evening. This is “My Temptations” out in the wild, off the studio leash, and it’s got that raw, slightly unhinged energy you only get when a track built for the dancefloor finally meets an actual dancefloor. Oden & Fatzo are the Parisian duo trading in glossy French touch business, all filter sweeps and basslines that funk harder than they have any right to, and you can hear them feeding off the crowd here. Barney Bones is the LA voice on top, a writer...
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Justin Mylo - Worries
Read more . . . →Justin Mylo has been quietly putting out solid house for years now, never the headline name but always the guy whose tracks somehow end up in every set you actually liked. “Worries” doesn’t break that streak. It’s clean, warm, the kind of groove that doesn’t announce itself so much as just decide your mood for the next four minutes. The bassline does most of the heavy lifting, bouncing under a vocal chop that loops just enough to stick without wearing out its welcome. No big trick, no gimmick drop engineered for a TikTok edit. Just a producer who knows what...
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yehno - Taking The Time
Read more . . . →yehno dropped a project on Anjunadeep and it’s got range. This one sits somewhere between deep house and what you’d hear at 4am when the good DJs finally come on. Buy / stream this track → More like this yehno - Distant yehno - Falling Into You Toby Rose, One Trick Pony - Hello
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