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Diverse Artiesten | Short and Snappy 10

There are just too many good tunes loose on the streets these days. Da volgaBabe catches the bravest ones and takes a quick peek in her box to sort out the vinyls you shouldn't miss out on.
12", various

Tekst: da volgaBabe

Publicatiedatum: 01 juni 2002

There are just too many good tunes loose on the streets these days. Da volgaBabe catches the bravest ones and takes a quick peek in her box to sort out the vinyls you shouldn't miss out on.

John Kong & Moonstarr | Future Vision (12", Fluid Ounce)
More bumpy breaks and jesting jazz on future heroes Zero dB's incredible imprint. With, of course, a top-notch remix by the boys themselves emanating from their acid-infused psychedelic party-realm. The proverbial good stuff on a devilishly interesting label.

Zero 7 | In the Waiting Line (12", Giant Step/Ultimate Dilemma)
The mighty fine original you should already know by now. And you get remixes by Naked's Aquanote, Osunlade, and Dorfmeister con Madrid de Los Austrias. You still doubting? You from this planet?!

Recloose | Ain't Changin' (12", !K7/Planet E)
I think we can safely dispense with the merits of the awesome original that are above ordinary dispute. So we flip to Carl Craig's Dark Soul Mix, where creepy acid and an eerie jump chord blend effortlessly with the pumping C² minimal disco section and some of Craig's crispest percussion in a while. And the vocals are spared, up until the end of the mix, when two marvellous jazzy breakdowns prove that the Paperclip Man is not about to lose his touch yet.

Annie | The Greatest Dubs (12", Loaded)
This being a tribute to the sad, early departing of Norway's psychedelic disco dub master Erot, Soul Mekanik lay down a predictable deep tribal remix that — rather sad for a tribute, we reckon — does not do the original justice. Luckily, Erot's own Greatest Dub makes clear, once and for all, that we have prematurely lost a future big contender. May his journey to the stars be a peaceful one.

Lo Soul feat. Malte | Warriors (12", Playhouse)
Playhouse, currently one of the world's best electronic labels, presents the second adventure of Peter Kremeier into perverted German pop with the Nico-style contribution of the deep-voiced Malte. Formally a rather dark affair, it nonetheless succeeds in bringing a poetic strand to minimal house. Germany rules, part 37 then?

Seiji | Loose Lips (12", Bitasweet)
Time for more breaks revolutions from the Bugz In The Attic crew. Especially Loose Lips, with its mad breaks and hyperactive rap, is groove power come to flesh. Flip 3Dom is more of the same, but this time the jazzy melodies are being freaked up and down without ever loosing that much-needed funk. Delicious.

Freeform Five | Perspex Sex (12", Classic)
Anu Pillai, with a few incredibly innovating remixes under his belt, moves up to first division with what is only his second single. And what an ambitious record it has turned out to be. Featuring six vocalists, a brass duo, and a full string section, he takes sidesteps to the Latin percussion vibe, hyper-disco, and futuristic retro-pop while keeping the rhythm — switching from breaks over-jazzy to simply house — tightly in the right place. When it comes to first affect, this makes easily for our record of the month. And he already has his next single in the pipeline, as we speak.

Frédéric Galliano | Presents The African Divas (12", F-Comm)
Not included on his superfat album, Galliano presents three more excellent cuts that bridge the gap between cultures, allying authentic African field recordings with studio technology. F-Comm must be standing for Fusion-Comm these days.

Green Fridge | The Whole Damn World (12", Laws Of Motion)
More listening and dance pearls from the never-tiring Restless Soul family. That means timeless house sounds infused with acute, tense atmospheres and dirty acid, which in time is relieved by spacious, very Zen deep house. Laws Of Motion is definitely the label to watch at the moment.

Jovonn | Mo Soul (12", Trackmode)
While doing nothing new by a light-year, Jovonn clearly is a man who knows his house music. Just listen to those playful vibes, those shamelessly sentimental guitars, and that blissful organ part of Lil' Drummer Boy, all pasted masterfully on a marvellous drum track. Living and celebratory house music for your bruised soul.

DJ Tvyks & Hakan Lidbo | Norr/Vychod (12", Paper)
Together with Tvyks, Hakan Lidbo comes up with a late-night Latin house cut that applies sad horns, classy strings, and a Zero dB-style slap bass to great effect. All mixes are good, so no mistake possible on this one.

Phil Asher Presents Focus | Find Myself (12", Versatile)
Phil Asher unleashes classic house cuts like it ain't no thing. Find Myself is another addendum to his impressive deep house curriculum. But flip Spaceship Rocket is the big surprise, with Asher taking on dub and coming up with a strange hybrid of Basic Channel and weird electronic minimalisms from another dimension. Versatile indeed.

Andrés | Out In The Open (12", Moods And Grooves)
Through the divine Moods And Grooves imprint — occasional providers of timeless deep house and techno — we are revealed more chunks of unpolished funk and soul vibes from the man who already attracted our undivided attention on Moodymann's KDJ. Here he delivers another threesome of those moody and introverted Detroit diamonds, each conveying more emotion in the span of a few minutes than most artists are able to conjure up in a whole career. It's alive! And that's how we like it @ volgaTowers.

Aquanote | Nowhere (2x12", Naked)
Aquanote delivers more quality deep house with this beautiful packaged double 12" on the rather sublime Naked imprint. We instantly had something with Speakeasy's dreamy remix, because its intricate, broken space jazz and radiating melancholy reminded us of Jedi Knight Mark Pritchard's recent solo outings. Still one of those very few labels you can buy on-sight.

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