deep house
MIXTAPE REVIEW: Blue Hawaii – ‘Under 1 House’: your deep house cassette pet
BLUE HAWAII: now there’s a name that conjures up a blissful vision of lazy heat and crystal-clear waters, especially for me sat in subfusc September Britain. And the same appeal of vision would apply, you’d think, to a duo one of whom is working out of Montreal, Quebec. Blue skies, bluer waters. A lightness of …
ALBUM REVIEW: Ambassadeurs – ‘Human Stranger’: majorly uplifting, humanist floor-fillers
AMBASSADEURS is the project of Sussex producer Mark Dobson, a man who’s approach to music is deeply personal, involved. He doesn’t churn it out because he has the means; he fashions and creates and recreates and channels, he sends tunes out into the world when they’re ready to communicate what is intended. He’s got one …
TRACK: Blue Hawaii – ‘Feelin”: slinky deep house from Braids’ Raphaelle
BLUE HAWAII is the project of Raphaelle “Ra” Standell-Preston (also known and loved by us here at Backseat Mafia as the singer with Braids) and Alex “Agor” Kerby, one based in Montreal, the other in Berlin. Distance is no barrier to their creative spark; they’ve been releasing albums well worthy of your ears since the …
TRACK: Romare – ‘The River’: insistent, layered Ninja groove
A ROLLING broken beat steps forth, announces a swaying Afro groove. It’s joined by a stabbing piano figure that seems to pin the deep, oceangoing roll of the break, force it to take a new rhythmic shape; a little bassy snippet hints at 70s’ funk. The beat shifts again, gets more insistent. Layers of sourced …
Track: Michael Mayer – Belle De Lune
Despite running the famed German Kompakt label, Michael Mayer hasn’t released anything on it for the last eight years. That’s not to say he hasn’t been busy – anything but. He DJs around the world, has released a DJ Kicks, the collaborative full length album ‘&’, plus remixed for the likes of Metronomy, Weval, Arthur …
Track: Arctween – Along the way
Porto producer and multi-intrumentalist Arctween has revealed ‘Along the way’ the first track from his debut release, which drops on Forbidden Cuts on 26th April. If you’re in need of some sunshine on a drab afternoon, then catch the rays that emanate from ‘Along the way’, with its bubbling deep-house bassline rippling over these arid, …
EP: Jónbjörn – Isms EP
Lagaffe Tales co-founder Jónbjörn drops four tracks on Iceland’s FALK Records beat driven sub-label, FALK Disks. Since 2008 FALK (Fuck Art Lets Kill) has become a creative hub for Icelandic and international artists involved in experimental and electronic music, spanning noise rock through to power electronics, underground hip-hop to DIY techno and electro. 2017 saw …
Feature: Flemcy Music: Starting New Electronic Label in the digital age
So you are a music producer and you have just realised your make amazing tracks. Your friends seem to like them. Your dad shared his first Facebook post – that with a link to your new track. Random strangers started following you on SoundCloud and calling your work ‘dope’. It is overwhelming for a bit …
Album Review: Thylacine – Transsiberian
A concept album composed over a 5,000 mile journey between Moscow and Vladivostok, Artist William Rezé (Thylacine) sampled sounds along the way and blended them over music he created from the confines of a tiny cabin along the Trans-Siberian Railway. His Travels took him through nearly 6,000 miles of landscapes resulting in a piece of work that reflects his discovery …
Track: Lance Neptune – Circle Rose
If you’re looking for something to drift away to on this tuesday morning, then you’d do a lot worse than check out the new track from Glenardern, Maryland producer Lance Neptune, called Circle Rose. Supposedly inspired by lost lands between here and the heavens, its a follow up to his recent debut EP ‘Animal Eclipse’, …