The second Downtown EP on Kerri Chandler's own self-titled label, reconnecting with the spirit of his Downtown Records era. Four cuts, including In Search Of Mr Ford in two versions and the flat statement of House Is House.
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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' at 120–126 BPM. Soulful, timeless deep house in the Detroit tradition.
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Papacha — the Balearic alias of Ibiza's DJ Pippi and Italian producer Tuccillo — lands on Undiscovered with the dub-house cut 'Benimussa.' Sun-baked, percussive Mediterranean groove in the early-2000s Spanish house mould at 123 BPM, backed with a Chus & Ceballos Iberican mix. Warm and floor-ready.
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Paris techno DJ and producer Louis The 4th lands the Ego In The District EP on Madrid's Bunkers Collective. Steeped in the music's history from Detroit to Berlin, he pulls three cuts of hypnotic, driving, dub-influenced deep techno at 136–140 BPM, with a remix of the title track 'Meditation Collage'...
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Four tracks between 136 and 138, straight-ahead and unhurried. "Macrocosm" opens, "Danger Zone" and "Journey Home" close it out.
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Makèz for Kaoz Theory, with Life On Planets on the title track and Leah Cleaver on Can't Relate. Four disco-tipped house cuts.
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Another untitled white label from EEE, the UK's East End Edits. A single deep-house edit at 126 BPM — sample-driven and DJ-functional, in the label's anonymous edits tradition. Simple, effective, made for the floor.
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Deeleegenz fills a 2x12 on Housmose, an indie home for old-school-flavoured house. Color Residues works deep and jackin' house with a jazzy undertow — interludes and intros stitched between cuts like 'Keep Growin', 'If U Talk 'bout Jazz' and 'Midnight Conversation', mostly around 123–126 BPM. Warm, sample-driven, old-school in spirit.
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