it's all good…
22nd November, 2008 | 78 views
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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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20th November, 2008 | 182 views
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Was released in September but didn’t seem to hit the stores until late October, like most pressings these days, is in limited numbers so don’t hang around if you’re into it and wanna piece of black wax action. Introduced to San Soda via Jus-Ed’s UQ radio show where the two tracks from his debut release on We Play House Recordings were getting regular plays. Just In is both the deepest and my favourite cut on this four track release, constructing an introspective melancholy atmosphere with a mostly constant slightly changing chord in the background and a repeated simple keyboard melody, it’s entrancing. Got Me Jumpin’ In My Car, the second track on the B-side, qualifies with an honourable deep mention and I like it’s slightly distorted percussion and low bassline rumblings. This is a strong release that deserves support so WPH can continue to press and serve up the deepness.
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31st August, 2008 | 93 views
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Another track from my early days of getting into deep house, probably got Steve Jackson’s Kiss 100 show ‘The House That Jack Built’ to thank for introducing this into my life but Danny Rampling would have equally played this sort of track on his Kiss show at the same time. Back to 1991 and I was an acne-ridden teenage trainspotter with a developing deep house habit and only a paper round to support it; man, it was tough but y’know I scraped the pennies together, delivered a few extra newspapers and went up to Black Market Records on D’Arblay Street, Soho to buy it. I failed miserably at looking ’street’ amongst all the other hardcore, considerably older djs and vinyl junkies that would throng the counter facing a wall of hot new import releases but managed to acquire a copy and escape unscathed to enjoy the deepness.
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10th August, 2008 | 44 views
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Joey Negro’s (aka Dave Lee) first release on the cult underground New York label, Nu Groove. With an eye to establishing some extra credibility in Britain, not only did the UK artist get this released on a US label but, so the tale goes, include a publicity photo of his artistic alias as a black American with an afro. Nu Groove had an avid, obsessive even; I can imagine the eyes of the vinyl anoraks fluttering with excitement seeing this new release in the import racks, the distinctive Nu Groove logo acting like the plumage on a rare bird.
In December 1990, the UK dance magazine, MixMag, gave away a free cd with issue for that month. Although not revolutionary by today’s standards since most periodicals include free cds, back then it was unheard of and they were one of the first lifestyle/music magazines to do so. On it there were five short mixes by different djs each representing a particular style and/or label and if you were finding out about the nascent genre of dance music at the time, like I was, this was a godsend. This track was part of the Nu Groove Records Mastermix and I just loved the omnipresent chord sound in the background with the repeated gentle keyboard stabs coupled with the positive vocal samples that gave the track it’s title. Essential listening.
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18th June, 2008 | 59 views
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Deep is as deep does, down deeper we go, in search of more adjectives to describe it’s deepness but no we can’t and instead just nod our heads sagely, deep in thought and time, d-e-e-e-e-p, and see how many mentions of deep we can get into one long deep sentence. A sublime track with a sound that epitomises deepness, melding with the alpha waves of your brain and taking your mind away…
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