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Denis Sulta & Capri - Push The Tempo (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →The breakdown drops out to nothing but a hi-hat and a single filtered chord for a full sixteen bars, and by the time the kick punches back in you’d follow it anywhere. Denis Sulta has always made house with a grin on it, that Glasgow party-starter energy that treats the dancefloor as the only serious subject in the world. “Push The Tempo” with Capri is exactly that: bouncy, a little cheeky, a vocal shouting the title like a dare. The extended mix earns its length by taking its time, letting the groove ride before it starts stacking elements on top....
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Route 94 - 4Get The Girl (Samm Remix)
Samm strips Route 94's 4Get The Girl to the skeleton and rebuilds it for 1am in a loud room. Real damage, generic breakdown.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Oden & Fatzo x Noa Milee - You Don't Want To Think About It (Live Session)
Read more . . . →There’s a Defected live session shot in some sun-drenched room and it makes you want to quit your job and learn to DJ badly. Oden & Fatzo have been turning into one of the most fun house acts going, all bouncing basslines and vocal hooks that lodge before the first chorus is done, and “You Don’t Want To Think About It” with Noa Milee is peak them. The live-session format suits it; you can see the thing being built, hands on the gear, Noa Milee’s vocal happening in the room rather than comped together after the fact. At 2:41 the...
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RUZE & Chesster - Another Night (Ranger Trucco Remix)
Read more . . . →How is a song called “Another Night” this good at making a Tuesday feel like a Friday? The Ranger Trucco remix of RUZE & Chesster’s original strips it back to essentials: a rubbery bassline, a vocal chopped into a hook that repeats just past the point of comfort and then turns hypnotic, and a kick you feel more than hear. It’s tech-house that leans warm rather than clinical; there’s a swing on the hats that keeps it human instead of letting the grid take over. The whole thing is built for one job, to get a room moving at midnight...
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Melé & RIA - Ay Sí (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →If your summer needs one more track before the weather turns, make it this one. “Ay Sí” is Melé working the Latin-tinged house that’s become a whole signature over the years, and RIA’s vocal rides the groove with a swagger that turns the track into a night going to end somewhere nobody planned. The extended mix earns its length. It takes its time on the intro, letting a single conga pattern and a bassline do all the seduction before the vocal even shows up. There’s a piano stab in the back half that’s pure sun-on-your-face, the kind of chord a...
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Oden & Fatzo x Noa Milee - You Don't Want To Think About It
Read more . . . →Oden & Fatzo have basically cracked the cheat code for a certain kind of house track. “You Don’t Want To Think About It” with Noa Milee is exactly what the title promises: a groove built to switch your brain off and your hips on. The bassline is that fat, slightly cheeky Oden & Fatzo signature, the one that always sounds like it’s smirking at you, and Noa Milee’s vocal loops over the top just enough to lodge in your skull for the rest of the day. At 1:15 the whole thing snaps into the pocket and flatly refuses to leave,...
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Melé & IRAH - Body Move (Extended Mix)
Mele and IRAH built 'Body Move' to do one job on a system at 1am. Afro-house swing that gets your ankles moving before your coffee does.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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The Second Voice - LET ME BE (Hypaton Remix)
Read more . . . →Give this one about ninety seconds before you write it off. “LET ME BE” opens like standard melodic-dance filler, pretty vocal, big supersaw chords, the sort of thing scoring a phone ad, and then the Hypaton remix earns its keep at the drop, which is meaner and more mechanical than the intro lets on. Hypaton has a knack for taking euphoric source material and bolting a harder, almost tech-leaning spine underneath it, and that’s exactly the move here. The vocal stays emotive up top while the bottom half turns into a proper stomping groove, and the tension between those halves...
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Ben Remember - Truth
Read more . . . →You already know if this is your kind of thing by the second bar, which is exactly what good tech house should do. Ben Remember’s “Truth” on Toolroom is peak-time tech-house with zero wasted motion: a relentless rolling bassline, a chopped vocal stab repeating the title, and a groove that simply does not let up for the entire runtime. This is functional dancefloor music in the best sense, made by someone who clearly knows precisely what a DJ needs at 1am when the floor’s full and the energy has to keep climbing. The bassline has that rubbery, hypnotic bounce Toolroom...
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Bruno Furlan - Overdrive
Read more . . . →I’d drop this one in a set tonight without a second thought. Bruno Furlan makes tech house with a Brazilian swing most of the genre’s grid-locked producers simply can’t fake, and “Overdrive” rolls on one of those basslines that leans a fraction ahead of the beat and keeps tugging you forward by the collar. Toolroom put out a lot of functional peak-time tools, and this one clears that bar with room to spare: there’s real groove in it, more than the competent kick and vocal loop most of these tools settle for. The bassline is the whole star, fat and...
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