May 17 2013
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Skream – Disco Mix & Boiler Room

Continuing our recent shuffle (and hip wiggle) towards the disco revival, here’s another mix from Disco Skream (not to be confused with Dubstep Skream):

Whilst we’re on the Croydon Curtis Mayfield, Drunk Skream also put in a big performance at this year’s Boiler Room vs Ray Ban sessions at SXSW. The official video put up by BR edits out the bit where he gives away the CD-Js to the audience, but it’s still a masterclass in pissed mixing. As he said, “I was clearly smashed.”

We can only hope he puts in a similarly jubilant performance at this year’s Worldwide festival, the Giles Peterson-curated bonanza at which our festival paths cross this year…

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May 17 2013
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Moon Boots – Love Strong

Chicago’s Moon Boots has managed to put together a whole load of fun in his new track, ‘Love Strong’. With a glorious piano chord intact, it’s got that care-free, summer vibe we’re all after (well, we are: aren’t you? You should be). One of our favourite labels French Express are giving this away for free. Get it done, it’s feel-good.

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May 17 2013
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Clancy – The Way You Dance

You can’t knock his work rate, no more than a month after the contagious ‘All Just In My Mind’, Clancy is giving away another tune ‘The Way You Dance’.

One of our favourite London producers, he’s building quite the repertoire of understated but highly contagious beats. Weaving a beautiful blend of disco and house into his music, Clancy shows again he can pen a tune that will get people moving. Snippets of his tunes are destined for the dancefloor and if you wait until just shy of three and a half minutes into this new one, you’ll see what we mean.

Here are a couple he made earlier:

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May 16 2013
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Mount Kimbie – You Took Your Time (feat. King Krule)

Here’s a force to be reckoned with. Warp’s recent recruit Mount Kimbie have teamed up with edgy bard from London-town, King Krule. This is the third single from Mount Kimbie’s ‘Cold Spring Fault Less Youth’ album and shows the duo exploring more post-everything beats hand in hand with King Krule’s artfully wretched murmurings.

Mount Kimbie are on tour for the next few months. We suggest you investigate.

May 16 2013
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Jee Day – Sum of Love

‘Sum of Love’ is the new one from Jee Day (aka NYC producer and Run Roc Records boss, Dennis ‘DJ’ McNany). Featuring a sugary vocal from Jee Young Sim, it’s a woozy disco anthem for summer, and it’s really very likeable indeed. Furthermore, the inestimable Lauer has only gone and stretched it into a more cerebral house remix:

Both are out on Beats In Space and can be exchanged for money right here.

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May 16 2013
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Axwell – Center Of The Universe

Guilty pleasure alert: after the emotional cessation of Swedish House Mafia, Axwell makes his return to solo work with ‘Centre of the Universe.’ Optimistic lyrics sung by a continental gentleman are matched with a beat that will worry anyone living locally to BCM. Two minutes in, and the former 23rd ‘Best DJ in the World’ obviously hasn’t tried to reinvent the wheel here. And then he hits you with a soaring, big room piano loop that will have you reaching for the plunging V neck and tub of Whey Protein in no time at all. Something tells us it’s going to go down well with the travelling British this summer. As much as we appreciate Pete Tong waxing lyrical about dance music, apologies for the mediocre radio rip on this one.

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May 15 2013
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Octo Octa – Please Don’t Leave

Brooklyn’s Octo Octa, a 100% Silk stalwart, has a treat in the pipeline for us, if these teasers from his new album ‘Between Two Selves’ are anything to go by.

First up is ‘Please Don’t Leave’, a contemplative take on the vocal house often found on these pages. FACT summed it up neatly as “rearview house”.

That slow burner is the second pre-release from the album, together with ‘Work Me’, a less reflective four and a half minutes of house:

Both can be purloined on May 28th. If you can’t wait until then, indulge in Octa’s recent Boiler Room set:

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May 14 2013
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Flight Facilities – I Didn’t Believe

This duo from Down Under continue their worldwide disco domination with ‘I Didn’t Believe’.

If the insanely catchy vocal on the original isn’t enough to lure you in, Flight Facilities have recruited Tiger & Woods and Lou Teti to create two excellent remixes for the EP. One ups the tempo, one draws things out, but they’re both equally enjoyable. These tracks are out on Future Classic now, £1.30 a pop…

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May 14 2013
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Chris Malinchak – So Good To Me (Ejeca Remix)

With HD fave ‘So Good To Me’ sitting pretty in the UK charts at number two this week, Ejeca has turned his hand to beefin’ up Chris Malinchak’s summer sunsetter. It has all of the feeling of Ejeca’s old school, busy house style, whilst lightly sampling the original. He’s giving it away, and you can expect to hear it rather a lot over the coming weeks…

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May 13 2013
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Vanilla Ace – Get It On

‘Get It On’ is another new one from increasingly prolific HD favourite Vanilla Ace, and it’s another winner. Livelier than ‘Bring It Back’ and other previous outings but with the same emphasis on bouncing bass, it’s got a nice little vocal and some squelchy electronic stuff to boot. It’s out on 23rd May on Blockhead Recordings, along with a pretty unfussy up-tempo remix from Pittsburgh’s Sertac Sahin. There are plenty of worse ways to get your week up and running (but we won’t go into them here: just listen to this).

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