Stevie Wonder Gets Reworked

The Whiskey Barons are a dj and production duo based in Boston. Their work mainly revolves around updating classic funky music ready to be dropped on todays dance floors. That’s exactly what they’ve done on their rework of Stevie Wonders ‘As’ from 1977.

This is mid tempo disco at its finest. So much fucking groove!! This one will involve you and a dance floor. Guaranteed.

Natalie Duncan - 'Find Me a Home' (Remixed)

Natalie Duncan is an extremely talented singer-songwriter, with a rich voice resonant with soul and the blues. She has had the pleasure of working with DnB legend Goldie and more recently, Magnetic Man. She released her debut album earlier this year to rave reviews. To follow this, a Remix package of Track 8 ‘Find me a Home’ has been released.

The standout remixes for me have to be the two by ‘Crooked Man’. Clearly he submitted two to the cause, and like myself Natalie couldn’t decide which one was best so both have been included in the package.

Two deep house vibes, really working and playing on the vocals to great effect. ‘Crooked Home’ is more of a laid back affair, whilst ‘Find Me a Disco’ has a more upbeat club groove to it.

Other remixes include a future bass twist by Dot Major and Drum and Bass from Ulterior Motive.

AfroQBen – Liquid Gold

In todays minefield of music, one way to keep your nose poked out so you get noticed is the old time skill of blending the genres. Not necessarily to have another strand of bass music that needs a name, just to be a little different.

AfroQBen throws off the shackles of restriction and serves up a main platter of Afro Funk, with side dishes of hip hop and reggae, dub, downtempo and bass music.

'Liquid Gold' is AfroQBen’s second full-length and it really brings together a fresh combination of styles. The whole album is filled with bangers, with the straight up intention to get you bouncing. Take the hip hop infused dub heavy vibes of 'Dirty Heart' for instance. Shimmy through a couple of tracks and you find yourself jamming on a cosmic wave of disco-house funk courtesy of 'House Fly'.

Other stand out tracks for me are the chunky hip hop, funk swagging rhythm of 'Everyone Jump' which gets a healthy dose of jacking vocals provided by Lafa Taylor & Reason. And also 'Cafe' which delivers an organic afrobeat jam with help from members of 'March Fourth Marching Band'.

The album gets wrapped with a downtempo, sitar laced eastern feeling track. I like the angle that's been approached here, but this one doesn't quite live up to the vibe of the earlier tracks. 

All in all however, 'Liquid Gold' is rather aptly named. Check out some of the tunes below and hop over to the soundcloud page for the rest of the album.

Duke Dumont Gets Remixed

Duke Dumonts "The Giver" Is arguably one of the best house releases this year. Following its success Turbo Records decided to milk it of a little more by offering out a remix package. 

Turbos label head, Tiga first steps up to the plate with a great remix. Deep bass and plenty of the original anthemness! Other remixers include Toronto's Gingy & Bordell, Lando Kal and the Belgian producer Locked Groove. Listen to Tigas remix in full and samples of the other 3.

DJ Agent 86 & Drop Out Orchestra - Disco Me

DJ Agent 86 & Drop Out Orchestra have got themselves together for their latest release on Lightspeed recordings. An uptempo disco-house tune titled 'Disco Me'.




A number of artists have taken on the remix duties, amongst them is Kid Who, a South London producer.
He slows it all down and gives the whole track a new lease of life. Personally this is my favourite. Check Lightspeed Recordings for the full package.

Smile Recordings (Free DL)

Mindless Boogie was a vinyl only label, that released tracks from the likes of Prins Thomas, Inflagranti, Tiago, and Lexx between 2005 & 2009. Now defunct, Smile Recordings are releasing them as free downloads over time. Keep an eye on their Soundcloud.
Two free downloads to get started, A feel good edit of The Turtles - 'Happy Together' by Todd Terje and a big edit of the Rolling Stones - 'Emotional Rescue' by the black belt of lazer disco; Inflagranti.

John Mood - A Basement Romance EP

Not too many words required for this one. Swedish Record Label Local Talk opening the roads for an up and coming producer, a Dutch man called John Mood. He gives us a raw, deep house joint filled with luscious chords, a deep baseline and a tight rhythm. The way house music should be.
De Sluwe Vos does a lovely job remixing the A-Side.

Kasper Bjørke feat. Laid Back - 'Bohemian Soul'

Kaspar Bjorkes 3rd single from his latest album 'Fool' gets the remix treatment from a host of artists. In all honesty the track is superb and doesn't need to be touched, this leaves me worried about what I'm going to hear.But worry I need not, the remixes are just as good as the original and I struggle to point my hobbit fingers at the best of the lot. The Hamburg two some the Adana Twins do a fantastic deep house job, I think I might call this one out. They've called it 'On A Cloudy Day’ remix, however they could quite easily have settled for 'On a Sunny Day'





Next up would have to be slightly uptempo version from the New York pair Still Going.




Other remixers in the package include This is Head and Tambien.

No Regular Play - 'Endangered Species'

No Regular Plays eagerly awaited album drops on the November 23rd, 2012. They are two childhood friends (Greg Paulus and Nicholas DeBruyn) from Minnesota who are a core of the current Wolf + Lamb family.

Endangered Species is as shape-shifting as nature itself, twisting and evolving with grand pianos, african drums, closed high hats and Greg Paulus trumpet lines.

Preview the album courtsey of Wolf + Lamb

Grab a free 'special' version of the title track below

FaltyDL – ‘Straight & Arrow’

Drew Lustman aka FaltyDL has his second release for Ninja Tune ready to go. A delicious house record, with soothing vocals. Perfect listening when kicking back in the armchair or bouncing in the club.

Four Tet a man who just won't stop offers a superb remix. A slow but beautifully gripping start with a techy switch-up half way through. Foot tapping to the bitter end.

Due for release on the 12 November