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Voyeur AKA Benson Herbert and Leo Picking, are the young pair that broke through back in February 2012 with a remix of Bombay Bicycle Club.Soon after Kerri Chandler invited them to release on his Madhouse and Madtech imprints. Before long the UK duo were sharing booths with the likes of Frankie Knuckles, Masters At Work, Dennis Ferrer and Cassy.'I' Album Sampler' is a limited EP of the more dancefloor friendly tracks which kicks off with the captivating production 'Lost In Paris'. The A2 sees 'Long Beach Island' feat. Kerri Chandler with rippling drums and numerous mesmerising nuances merged together. On the flip 'Patron Saint' generates a low-slung groove from start to finish, that features label head honcho Kerri Chandler. Last but not least sees the tribal percussion and soaring synths of 'Nina'.

Packed full of cinematic textures, plaintive vocals and dusty house grooves, The Last Raw Era is the stunning debut album from Hollis Parker: a vinyl-only love-letter to New York City that harks back to bygone days of US house music.House music albums can be tricky to pull off. More often than not they are little more than a hastily thrown-together collection of club tracks, lacking the cohesion or narrative themes that mark a truly timeless body of work. Hollis Parker's debut is one of the few of recent memory that bucks this trend, applying a hip-hop production aesthetic to an album with house music at its core, creating an immersive listening experience over the course of 10 deeply emotive tracks.The Last Raw Era is themed around two distinct love stories: that evolving relationship between two fictional characters, and the entirely real emotion Hollis wears on his sleeve about New York, calling it the foundation upon which I'm built. A hazy melancholy informs much of the album's tone, with obscure samples dusted off and given a new lease of life in songs that evoke the languid production of Moomin as much as the raw house cuts of the early US masters.Crafted in the old-school style, Hollis took a turntable, a couple of samplers and a stack of vinyl records and got to work, creating a musical tapestry from instrumental samples, snatches of movie dialogue and heartfelt vocals. The result is both familiar and absolutely unique, with Hollis looking to the past to produce something refreshingly free of clichéd house tropes.This album is basically a culmination of everything I've done musically up until now says Hollis from the techniques and musicianship I learned to the equipment I figured out how to use, the different genres I've created: it all comes together on this album. It's a love story that's also about a city, specifically a city that I got to know before the internet and social media, back in the 90s, or what I like to call the last raw era.From the simultaneously heart-breaking and uplifting 4/4 bounce of What You've Done to the dreamlike drifting of Central Park Love, The Last Raw Era contains individual tracks that are without question some of the most beautiful of the year. But this is an album that needs to be listened to in its entirety to be fully appreciated: a timeless gem with the power to take you to another place.

Editorial is back again with another stacked 12 Inch with familiar faces and a new arrival to the label. Art of Tones kicks things off with Bootyshaker, inspired by UK compadre Red Greg. With a driving funky bassline, this jam is a bonafide party starter!The mysterious Barry Prophet surfaces again with a laid back slo-mo boogie vibe on Closer.Flip the wax for Editorial stalwart Matt Hughes and his class funky guitar and bass work on Walk the Chalk .Next up is Italy's Special Q bringing his nu-disco sound proper. finally, The Sellout's close out the ep with a heady downtempo smokey joint.. as you know , this is : The way we groove

A new series of passport to paradise releases with new artwork from Serbian artist Marko Vuleta-djukanov....This release comes from Abel Nagengast the man behind Redlight records in Amsterdam . A bunch of edits from the vaults from this digger extraordinaire. You know what to expect four killer tracks deep from the underground....

Admin is someone we've had on our radar for a couple years now. His gifts of versatility and precise execution have paved the way for tunes that have remained in constant rotation for us over the years.We're over the moon to finally be able to press up a piece of wax with him & where else better than Kolour LTD 10's?

Steve Spacek links with Eglo Records, delivering an essential slab of futuristic, broken, dancehall wickedness!Bass weight of the heaviest kind, topped with Spacek's butter soft vocals. Pure fiya, turn up the amplifier!

Before the technical and historical chat this is what we have... Super rare local Michigan disco 45 in the vein of 'Long Train Running' but better, that should be enough to click buy I would hope. Flipside were a typical local radio rock band drawn into the disco funk wave and became known locally in Michigan as the "the long Haired Disco Band Guys." The Record is notable as it was produced by David Kalmbach, this Michigan legend owned Great Lakes Recording Studio which played a very important role in the garage rock movement by offering teen bands the chance to record a 45 that could be sold off the bandstand or at local record shops, given to potential employers, and even get airplay on one or more of the many AM rock and roll radio stations that dotted the state. Band member Dave Stewart went on to be in "The Magnificent Men" (A.K.A. Blue eyed soul brothers.) who were the first ever band to open for James Brown at The Apollo Theatre and also played with Eddie Holman, Soul Survivors & The Four Tops.