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Kym Sims - Too Blind To See It (Ridney & Richard Earnshaw Rework)
Read more . . . →Kym Sims’ “Too Blind To See It” has been a house record since 1991, and dragging a vocal that iconic into 2026 is a risk: get it wrong and you’ve defaced a classic. Ridney and Richard Earnshaw get it right by not overthinking it. This rework keeps Sims’ original vocal front and centre, all warmth and Chicago attitude, and simply gives it a modern, plush soulful-house bed to sit on. The bassline is round and organic, the kind that sounds like it was played rather than programmed, and there’s a piano riff around 1:50 that lifts the whole thing into...
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Equation - I'll Say A Prayer 4 U (Starr Traxx Edit)
Read more . . . →The “4 U” in the title tells you everything about where this one’s coming from, that early-2000s garage-house lineage where every track was a tiny love letter and the spelling got casual. “I’ll Say A Prayer 4 U” is soulful house done with real warmth, the Starr Traxx edit buffing it up for current floors without scrubbing off the gospel-tinged emotion that’s the whole point. There’s a vocal sample that loops just enough to feel like a prayer and not enough to feel like a gimmick, sitting over a bassline you can feel in your sternum. This is the underrepresented...
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Makèz & LYMA - Come Back Tomorrow (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →Defected putting out a Makèz record is about as safe a bet as house music offers right now, and “Come Back Tomorrow” is exactly the kind of grown-and-sexy groove they’ve made their whole brand. LYMA’s vocal is buttery, the bassline walks instead of stomps, and the whole thing has that late-Sunday-afternoon warmth where the party’s been going for hours but everyone’s still smiling. This is the extended mix, which means it takes its sweet time, and honestly that’s the point. House this soulful wants room to breathe and build, not a radio edit. I’ve been short on actual house in...
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