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Bukem returns to his deep house roots with a lush composition…

Recommending a mix… errr, my own mix – damn right! Digital deepness as I experiment with a new format.

Deep music for deep space – a vital second release by an alias of Izmo from the new Balance Alliance label.

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This track has been played by more than one presenter on the EstimuloShow which is testament to it’s strength and it deserves a post in it’s own right. Released at the tail end of 2008, it’s a sleeper that gets better with repeated listens and it still widely available now. Like drinking that ‘extra’ glass of wine, it brings intoxication to the ears, a tapestry of swirling sounds that sweeps you up on a magic carpet ride into that perfect world that few tracks conjure up. Nor should the lushness of this track overshadow the other two tracks by Ron Trent and Trinidadian Deep, which in themselves still make this release worth buying. Seek and buy on sight!

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Continuing with the deepness, if not some of the dreaminess of the previous post. If asked to give the names of some outstanding deep house releases of the past few years, this would definitely be one of them. Released in 2006, this is an outstanding début for Hugo Giner, nothing wasted as the flip side is just as essential. Definitely a producer to keep tabs on for future releases.

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Dream house, ambient house – descriptions that were thrown about at the beginning of the nineties but correctly applied to this track that came nestled amongst others of similar ilk on the seminal compilation by DFC, which also had these sleeve notes:

Emotional, meditational, hypnotic are the words used to describe this new lymph of music that is conquering the dance scene. Here you can listen to a revolutionary new form of dance music that mixes atmospheric sounds of new age and ambient music with pulsating house beats. It’s simply called ambient house.

This is a really innovative way to make music, a new method of dance with the mood to create your own mental pictures. Mixing sound effects of new age, house beats and dreamy synthesiser melodies can create a music with a cantering repetitive groove to explore a completely new territory on the dance floor. Now you can dance with your body while you are dreaming with your mind. If house music has been quite an earthquake, ambient house, starting with Sueño Latino by Sueño Latino, is a warm, entangling and sweet shock.

This album is the first ambient house collection and DFC Team compiled it to explore some of the possibilities of this new trend. The tracks in this album are not made to be all commercial hits, but using Aqua Regia’s words we can say “in your hearts, not the charts”.

The ‘new trend’ seemed to peter out rather soon however which was unfortunate, there doesn’t appear to be any other compilations, not even a K-Tel one, of ambient house. Be advised that the pressing on the compilation isn’t great and some of the tracks have been edited  in order to fit them all on one piece of vinyl – if you’re able to indulge yourself, hunt down and procure the tracks in their original form.

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I think this was the first record that I bought on the then fledgling Guidance Recordings label which in it’s first fifty or so releases, heralded the beginning of a new wave of deep house productions in the latter part of the nineties. An ear catching feast of deep vibes mixed with edible lyrics.

Something smells good, we cookin’ now!

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A number from San Soda’s second release on the Belgium imprint, We Play House Recordings.

I’ve always followed Aybee’s output ever since purchasing his ‘Revolution Of 1 EP‘ on his own Deepblak label and his mixes were no exception to my roving ears, hungry for deepness. Since his collaboration with Ron Trent produced the sublime ‘Across The Universe‘ under the guise of Indigenous Space People, his contact with other producers mean his mixes always contain one or two exclusive tracks from CDr that seem to remain unreleased. Download or stream from the mixes section on his website or from his MySpace blog post (Update: he appears to have cancelled his MySpace account).

01. | 00:00 | Carl Craig – It’s A Wonderful Life
02. | 07:36 | Deadbeat – Miso (Akiko Kiyama’s Miso Butter Remix)
03. | 10:28 | Ananda Project – Moment Before Dreaming (Idjut Boys Rmx I)
04. | 17:29 | Jeff Samuel – Month 2 Month
05. | 23:14 | Dos Almas – The Message (feat. Louie Balo) (Original Mix) (digital only)
06. | 27:46 | Trinidadian Deep – Ebo (unreleased)
07. | 32:20 | beats
08. | 34:54 | Osunlade? – ?
09. | 38:54 | Carl Craig – Sandstorms
10. | 42:53 | Aybee – Solaris
11. | 49:09 | Simbad – D’Angelo Dubplate B
12. | 52:09 | Karl Moestl Ft. Da Fonz – Al Pajaro (Move Your Legs Mix)

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Quintessential deep house track from the first wave at the beginning of the 1990s.

Cashing in on US import kudos, Dave Lee’s first release under a pseudonym for the pioneering New York label, Nu Groove.