Deep house coupled with preachy spoken word overlays can often come across as cliched. Not this though. ‘ A.T.O.N.E.M.E.N.T.’ comes in two versions. Version 2 is a bouncier, more uptempo mix, but I prefer this one. It’s more stripped down and more dissonant which seems to have made every element denser and more defined. The spoken word is used very sparingly and lends drama when it emerges. Super deep for dayz.
Tuesday, February 03, 2026
Monday, February 02, 2026
Track Of The Day: Synthetic Science - Sheltered Circuits (Exploding Plastic Inevitable)
This comes from the ‘A Soul For A Soul’ EP on David Holmes’ EPI, named after Andy Warhol’s & Paul Morrisey’s pre-psychedelic rave precursor happenings which featured The Velvet Underground. It’s a piece of characteristically emotive idm, the best examples of its type being produced in The UK in the early to mid nineties. Anything with that sunrise vibe tempered by fizzing break beats and synaptic sizzles is always a sure fire winner in the analogue warmth department. I was about to put this for sale on Discogs, but have since changed my mind.
Sunday, February 01, 2026
Track Of The Day: Herbie Hancock - Future Shock (Columbia)
Something mellow and funky for your Sunday afternoon. Herbie Hancock electrifies Curtis Mayfield’s classic. And, while not necessarily improving in the original, takes it in a slightly different direction by tweaking its giblets and even throwing a self-indulgent guitar solo in that doesn’t feel at all out of place. Loose and languid.
Track Of Yesterday: Master H - Magic K (Soma)
A great mixing track, and a deceptively complex one as well. It’s Geiger counter - like synth stabs overlaid by all manner of transcendental sonic embellishments. It’s value will almost certainly climb on Discogs due to the fact that it features in Jane Fitz’s 2025 Houghton set as one of the stand out tracks. It evokes other memories for me however. It was released in 2000, so was already 8 years old when I was last in Barcelona for the off-Sonar parties and spent the Saturday might of that weekend at The Macarena, a small club off Las Ramblas, at an all-nighter with Master H and Funk d’Void playing. The night was distinctive for me wandering off early, well at around 4am, and getting mugged shortly after. This happened, in spite of all the warnings and me seeing the muggers well in advance. I literally walked into it. More pick-pocketed than mugged, as there was no violence. And I have to applaud the perpetrators. They saw me coming a mile off and were very professional. Anyway, this track is elegant in its simplicity and a relic of that night, well the bit within the club’s walls.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Friday, January 30, 2026
Sound Of The Suburbs - Jolly Good Eggs Pt. 3
Title: Jolly Good Eggs Pt. 3
Artist: Sound Of The suburbs
Label: N/A
Cat Number:
Genre: House
1: The Birds & The Beats
2: Vardy’s Door
3: Flat Note (freedom for cash)
4: Can You Rock?
The latest release on what is a comeback for Sound of the Suburbs (albeit with tracks that aren’t that recent); ‘Jolly Good Eggs Pt. 3’ is classic surf London/Croydon fin de siecle messy stuff. ‘Can You Rock’ is pacey west coast tinged house, with driving, undulating percussion highlighted by gossamer light keys and woozy synth lines. ‘Flat Note (freedom for cash)’ evokes classic Chicago house. Dark beats and a spoken word sample that sounds just that little bit out of sync. It’s an effective jack track, the strength of which is that it doesn’t go overboard. ‘Vardy’s Door’ (no relation to Jamie or Rebecca), is a piece of mid-paced, stripped-down house that has elements of filter disco in it and is a great momentum builder. And the most capacious, tribal track, ‘The Birds & The Beats’ is also probably the one with the greatest floor-filling potential. Carried by multiple rimshots and an eponymously spoken word sample, it, like the rest of this release, is probably best appreciated under some railway arches somewhere, with just a strobe or two for company.
Track Of The Day: Angine de Poitrine (Tamebsz) Live . Concert Gatineau le 11 Septembre 20...
Reminds me of Captain Beefheart, which is only a good thing.
Track Of Yesterday: Basic Channel - Q1.1/Iii (Basic Channel)
Aside from the dub techno templates, the influence of which will be felt for a long time to come, Basic Channel were also responsible for gems like ‘Q1.1ii’, the likes of which blend the aforementioned sub-genre with the strain of insect menace techno pioneered and perfected by Jeff Mills. The result is an elegant slowed-down piece of machine funk that shimmers under the wright of its own friction.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Track Of The Day: Leonid - Woodwalk (Verdant)
Leonid has released on labels like Patrice Scott’s Sistrum and Steffi’s Dolly in the past, but he hasn’t done anything better than this delicious slice of deepness for Andy Green’s Verdant. A very restrained slow burner that elects interest immediately and then keeps it in a stranglehold, this is a track full of dense, trace sonic elements and is the perfect set opener. It would appear from his Discogs page that Leonid hasn’t released anything for a few years. Let’s hope that changes soon.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Track Of The Day: Grace Jones - Private Life (Island)
Does any track better highlight Sly Dunbar's drumming?
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