Posts Tagged ‘ NYC ’
For those that are unfamiliar with Eddie Palmieri‘s work, here is an open invitation to the magnificence of his latest piece “Mi Congo Te Llama”, a 12 inch produced and mixed by Joaquin Joe Claussell on Fania, distributed by Sacred Rhythm Music. Born of parents from Ponce, Puerto Rico, Eddie was raised in the South [ READ MORE ]
The dark horse series “Vanguard Sound” has been establishing an aesthetic of gritty, almost militant house music. The sound here straddles the range of haunted acid, industrial electro, jack, and techno. Amir Alexander‘s imprint continues the trend with its third 12″. As usual for the series, the tracks are varied and strong. DJ Spider’s Tribal [ READ MORE ]
New artist SVENGALISGHOST debuts with a 12″ of acid house powered by intense naked synth workouts. Deep Into Memory takes up the long side of the record with pad cushioned slow house groove (well under 120 BPM) haunted by spaced out squelches and punctuated by handclaps. On the other side, dueling arpeggiators take up the [ READ MORE ]
Lady Blacktronika‘s vigorous variety of raw cut-and-paste deep house music seems to have really hit its stride with this release on her own Sound Black imprint. Braiding strands of gospel house, Detroit beat-down, and trippy deep grooves together for a sound signature all her own, her three solo tracks here each center around vocal textures. [ READ MORE ]
Robert Owens takes center stage here with this remix single taken from his eponymous album for Compost records. While the original was a Larry Heard production, labelowner Kai Alce reworks the tune in his own manner for the 12″ version. In parts of the release, a certain Aaron-Carl mantra-like quality shines through, looping plaintively over [ READ MORE ]
David Sumner’s Function project, the moniker for almost all of his solo releases , is well established through over a dozen 12″s over the past two decades. Through his association with Sandwell District since the mid 2000s, he’s gone through a kind of renaissance; this 12″ is exemplary of the introspective thrust of his more [ READ MORE ]
Opening with what sounds suspiciously like a daring re-cut of Bob James’ Nautilus, G Marcell contributes one of the standout tracks so far for Plan B’s rugged and raw Vanguard Sound series. This, the second installment, again features Chicago’s own Hakim Murphy along with label regulars DJ Spider and Dakini 9. G Marcell’s aforementioned Renegade [ READ MORE ]
Producing heavy underground dance music since the mid-90s, Norm Talley comes highly recommended for fans of Rick Wade and Mike Huckaby as one of the key defenders of the deep house world. In this latest offering via New York’s Thema imprint, he starts off with a dark and propulsive, techno-leaning track. He backs the record [ READ MORE ]
Somewhat of an originator when it came to this loose, sample-heavy, slowed-down house groove (Gerry Read, Youandewan, Red Rack’em, etc), Falty DL returns on the mighty Ninja Tune and re-establishes his mastery of the art. While it’s not as frenzied as some of his album work, the music here is characterized by a constant motion [ READ MORE ]
Instant House, the NYC / Dance Tracks-related collaboration between Joe Claussell, Stan Hatzakis and Tony Confusione, was apparently active between 1988 and 1993, as indicated on their 2003 retrospective compilation Jungle Source Records. Now rarities, Joe Claussell revisits some of the material on his own Sacred Rhythm Music label. Included is what sounds like an [ READ MORE ]