Alan Fitzpatrick
'Love Siren'
Testifying to the perpetual power of old skool, Alan Fitzpatrick's neatly cut sampled loop of N'Joi's Anthem laces this track with the kind of emotionality that instinctively has your head raised and eyes closed. This heavy in demand number has crashed through beatport charts and has been detonated by Carl Cox at Space, Adam Beyer at Amnesia and Edu Imbernon at Sankeys. Expect to hear its throttling rhythm for the remainder of the season.
Tiger Stripes
'Brr'
Brrr might be taken as an onomatopoeia for feeling the chill, but Stockholm based Tiger Stripes has bled a track that has found itself as a summer anthem where chucking on the layers would be suicide. The Truesoul Records release is finding an outlet amongst Adam Beyer and Nicole Moudaber who are favouring its chunky drummed lead-in before the vocal hook becomes contagious.
Gregor Tresher
'Goliath'
This descent into the shadowed throes of techno is a proper head-burying brute. Not even a minute in, and the hammering looped melodic lead has begun before leading you down an alley where a continuous state of hypnotic pleasure lingers. Pan Pot clearly shares in being enraptured by the simplicity of its make-up as the track has scaled Amnesia's walls.
Gregory Porter
'Liquid Spirit' (Claptone remix)
Creamfields and BBC Radio 1 weekend both gave this groove packed spine-jerker the knees-in to the thousands who arrived for some of the island's magic potion. The remix that almost didn't happen thankfully made it to production so we can say ‘hello' to our inner funk with its piano-driven, clap interrupted rhythm.
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'Chunky'
A wee juicer that's been drenching the likes of Carl Cox and DC10 attendees with the thick bass, infectious vocals and cow belled throngs that litter this house track. The dead-pan yet syncopated vocals give the track a laid back saunter that struts around in the head for days. “Keep heap fun til the break of dawn...” Yessir!
Solomun
'Zora'
Meaning dawn of day, this knock-out track carries you through its progressive current with its weighty escalating chords that are accompanied by shattering synths. Pete Tong is the latest to serve this up and display Solomun's signature ability to inject his melodic airwave cruisers with emotion stirring soundscapes that are very much present in this blissful gem.
Beesmunt Soundsystem
'Searchin'
When your track has been delivered by the likes of Âme, Roman Flügel and Joy Orbison at DC10 you know you've brewed a monster. It's a deep, bubbling number that arrives with heavy weighted kick drums, sweeping atmospherics, piercing vocal stabs and slo-mo drum claps. You can all but imagine how this is elevated with DC10's soundsystem.
Michael Brun and Rune RK ft. Denny White
'See You Soon'
Teaming up with Rune RK (you'll probably know him better as Kölsch) to create a record for the trance fanatics, this blaster has been rinsed by Paul Oakenfold and the Ushuaïa EDM massive. Dreamy, mesmerizing vocals by Danny White curse through before you're hit with powerful lead synths and a stonker of a drop to rile-up the masses.
Axel Boman
'Nokturn'
It's like space meets samba in this eccentrically original beauty; combined elements that mean it's of no surprise that it's made its way into Ricardo Villalobos and Seth Troxler's cart of ammunition. The build of the repetitive take-off sounding synth and samba dipped percussion elements do anticipation to perfection.
&ME
'Woods'
If you've been on a trailblazing session and tech-house is your modus operandi, there's no chance you wouldn't have been given an aural bashing of this stellar piece that tugs at your strings. Pounding woody percussions surround your noise box before you scale its depths on a build that from Space, DC10 and Amnesia, reduces the crowd into a euphoric coma.
