Detroit House

Detroit deep-house institution Rick Wade opens the Deep Incantations Trilogy on Art Is The Place. The Harmonie Park founder works his signature long, textured grooves — strings, breathy hooks and jazzy warmth across 'Jazzy Tears' and 'Pimp Prophecy'. Soulful, timeless deep house in the Detroit tradition.

Gerald Mitchell’s own Rawax Motor City Edition series reaches its third release, with the Underground Resistance keyboardist working under his Los Hermanos banner. ‘Two Feet Up’ brings warm, soulful techno with lush stabs, and the title track is just as deep, with slick drums and sci-fi melody. The flip gets...

Underground Resistance brings back Galaxy 2 Galaxy, the 1993 hi-tech jazz record Mike Banks made under that name, as a single 12-inch. Both takes of 'Hi-Tech Jazz', The Science and The Elements, fill the A-side, putting jazz melody on top of Detroit techno machinery. The flip carries 'Astral Apache' and...

The fourth release in Gerald Mitchell’s Rawax Motor City Edition series revives his Los Hermanos project, pressed as a limited run of 200 on translucent green vinyl. ‘Keep Hold Tight’ pairs snippets of radio funk with glistening pads, and ‘Hey You’ moves into a jazzier groove over a solid four-on-the-floor....

Omar-S’s ‘Here’s Your Trance, Now Dance!!’ on his own Detroit label FXHE, produced, mixed and engineered at the FXHE studio in 2009 and issued in 2011. Glistening synth patterns keep rising over crisp machine rhythms, subtle arpeggios and warm bass. The flip carries a remix by Shadow Ray, Omar-S’s partner...

Mark Flash, the Southwest Detroit DJ and long-serving hand in Underground Resistance's live projects, returns with his three-track UR EP, first issued in 2011 and now repressed. The title cut on the A-side carries hopeful melody and rising string lines over a driving groove, and the two tracks on the...

Michigan's Myles Sergé returns to his own (MS) imprint with 'FANPRO' — a sharp synth lead over growling bass, rooted in dub techno pressure and Detroit machine soul. Three Berlin-based remixers bend it their own way: Toxido Mask sinks it in dubby echoes and cavernous space, Ackermann keeps the groove...

Los Hermanos, the Detroit band and production team Gerald Mitchell has led since 1999, on Mother Tongue. Another Day cut at 45 on the A; Binary Funk Infusion stretched out and The Billy Love Experience on the B.