djd music is the new imprint from dominic djd dawson whose previous production credits include the infamous shake it for me, a tune that hit the national charts under his hydraulic dogs moniker.joining djd is the magnificent vocal talent of lisa millett whose previous work includes atfcs bad habit that became a top twenty-chart sensation for defected! making up the outfit is finn peters, a prolific saxophonist and flautist playing with the likes of hip hop funk outfit the herbalizer to tony allens afro-beat ensemble and broken beat jazz act new sector movements. holy love is a perfect soulful house tune getting support from the likes of body & soul resident danny krivit. the a side has a live feel with its real bass and fender rhodes working in harmony with lisa’s warm sultry vocal. the flip boasts a charged up version of the original catering for the more energetic dancefloors!

dj d is definetly back! back on track with 2 bad ass tracks on this release. on the a-side >back on melody<, on the b-side >back to da hard<. both track titles speak for itself, no holding back - the melody man is back and here 2 stay!

funky latin inspired house bomb with nice vocals by phillipa alexander. a side also feat a jackin remix by sneak favs 1200 warriors. flip for a deep journey with johnny fiasco and a bumpin techy affair by juan de la madre. a massive package

stunning 2 tracker with hot funky house mashups with james brown & the jungle brothers

house, kickin us / latin styled house stomper

excellent deep & dubby house licks !!

anna wall & corbis take on queen drummer roger taylors two sharp pencils special remarks : 12&#8243, mff house bag, 150g vinyl
(get bad). the result? one of the most unlikely and essential party records of 2017. queen and house music: not necessarily the most obvious of bedfellows, but music for freaks has never been a label to take the path most travelled. over the course of their de-cades long journey the label founded by luke solomon and justin harris has released uni-quely idiosyncratic dance music, establishing the label as a go-to imprint for those seeking imaginative, unpredictable records that still undeniably work on the dancefloor. their latest release might well be among the most out-there of them all. originally released back in 1984,two sharp pencils (get bad) is a record by queen drum-mer roger taylor, featuring him on vocals as well as drums, bass & guitar. now brought bang up to date via a fully official and endorsed remix courtesy of anna wall & corbi, this overlooked album track looks set to become one of the summers most essential records. born and bred in the uk, anna wall is a dj, producer and label owner who is a key player in london’s underground house music scene. her label the bricks champions up-and-coming producers, while anna herself has djd all over the world, most recently for mixmag at pacha for their ims launch party. corbi is an ibiza-based dj and producer, a&r for the highly respected fina records and co-founder of melon bomb, a party and dj collective that has in the space of just a couple of years become one of the white isles most talked-about exports. having met while working at house giant defected records some years ago, anna felt that corbi would be the perfect studio accomplice to work on the remix of two sharp pencils.

working together for 16 years and counting, craig smith & graeme clark aka 6th borough project possess unrivalled experience. theyve djd at pivotal clubs next to the biggest names, released music on seminal labels, and cultivated a solid knowledge of everything from jazz, funk and soul to chicago house and detroit techno. something of a rarity to find in the artists of today. following up two solid lps on revered label delusions of grandeur, 2011s one night in the borough and 2014s borough 2 borough, find your rhythm marks the duo’s third album and is released on graeme’s own roar groove imprint. it will feature long time collaborator vocalist paul joseph and ties into a new edinburgh based residency of the same name. spanning everything from disco, house, techno and hip-hop, find your rhythm is an impactful return and testifies the duos ever-present innovation and mastery that simply does not falter with time.

nice price deal !!! pacifica kicks off proceedings with a bang thanks to 3 dynamite re-versions from dominic >djd< dawson. doms heritage stretches back across releases for some of the best dance music labels ever to have existed and with scores of original productions, collaborations and remixes under his belt the time has come for him to deftly drop 3 edits that show your average software bumbler how things are done.

meet bwana. his tunes started racking up plays and conversations commenced with new music buddies xi, submerse and djd. a variety of different 130bpm sounds were toyed with from dubstep, garage, 2 step, 808 dubstep and his very own mashes of r&b-lead garage-step. it all seemed to work. a bunch of labels got in touch and tracks were signed to mad decent and montreal based infinite machine.

for release number 5 well rounded goes deep with the debut release from donga & blake.
label owner donga met blake when both djd at brightons forward thinking drum n bass night carbon spinning similar shades of the deeper end of dubstep. this lead to the idea of hooking up in the studio, and whilst initial experiments at 140bpm were promising, it wasnt until they decided to lower the tempos to housier speeds that their sound clicked into place. this sound is a balanced fusion of soulful house, deep textured techno and rhythms absorbed from garage, funky and broken beat. these 3 immaculate tracks have a simple appeal but also contain many layered sonic details for the closer listener.

excellent groovy , jazzy house with tribal percussions

cyber dance records unleash their fifth record entitled somewhere out on the nightside. the ep consists of four tracks introducing a new batch of artists to the cyber dance cartel, brassica, serious lover, bill ambrose and melanie houston. brassica is the music of hackney bedroom producer michael anthony wright. hes had a couple of records on dissident and has a few more lined up for some other quite well-known labels over the next year. ballo dei morti was conceived one dark christmas day in milan and features the chorus of slayers dead skin mask vocoded in italian. the track has been eagerly awaited on vinyl after several months of attention through blogs such as 20 jazz funk greats and vice magazines music blog. serious lover is the brain-child of london based producer sam ryan who fuses electro-soul influences of early jam and lewis production with a more modern, harder sound, employing vintage synths and archaic drum machines in the studio and electronic musicians for the full live show. bill ambrose has been producing music on his collection of vintage synths and drum machines for over a decade, working behind the scenes as a producer or engineer on several releases. he wrote paranoid specifically for cyber dance earlier this year. melanie houston is a dj, musician and producer from london with a passion for dark, emotional music and a previous history in berlin where she djd and contributed music for the cult techno label tresor. with influences incorporating everything from avant-garde electronics to 80s synth pop, melanies as renowned for her skills on the turntables in the mix as for her abilities in the studio.

the strictly vinyl only crusade continues with the forthcoming release from mukatsuku records in the shape of the string laden disco bomb real clothes from the japanese producer ryota nozaki under his jazztronik personna. nik has a long history with jazztronik after having compiled with jake benhan the jazztronik inner flight album back in 2001 for counterpoint records and having djd with the live jazztronik band and ryota as a dj several times in japan and uk over the last few years.

well known and classic acapella tools. feat acapellas by todd terry all stars feat tara mcdonald, pete doyle, copyright, lisa millett, djd feat phillipa alexander, johnny corporate, kings of tomorrow, osunlade feat divine essence, quentin harris feat margaret grace and lenny fontana

all the great defected acapellas vol 2 for the preachers feat cuts from bob sinclar, roland clark, karizma, jay j, jason jinx, ian carey, dj gregory and many more a must have record

working together for 16 years and counting, craig smith & graeme clark aka 6th borough project possess unrivalled experience. theyve djd at pivotal clubs next to the biggest names, released music on seminal labels, and cultivated a solid knowledge of everything from jazz, funk and soul to chicago house and detroit techno. something of a rarity to find in the artists of today. following up two solid lps on revered label delusions of grandeur, 2011Õs one night in the borough and 2014Õs borough 2 borough, find your rhythm marks the duoÕs third album and is released on graemeÕs own roar groove imprint. it will feature long time collaborator vocalist paul joseph and ties into a new edinburgh based residency of the same name. spanning everything from disco, house, techno and hip-hop, find your rhythm is an impactful return and testifies the duoÕs ever-present innovation and mastery that simply does not falter with time.

the 2cd set does a good job in providing an overview of his musical journey to date, serving up both original productions early defected highlight this feeling, the massive thrill me and notable e samb, for starters and key remixes (check his revisions of thick dick, djd presents hydraulic dogs and atfc).

the balearic house sound of saturday nights at pacha and beyond, this is spiritually ibiza