Chembass, Ben La Desh, Suburb, Zoo Look
Hello again, readers and listeners. Where have the past couple months gone? Perhaps it’s just best to forget, with the winter refusing to loosen its icy grip on our fair city. Now, we all look forward with even more anticipation to the warmer months, completely forgetting about how unbearable heat can be just as pleasant as the unbearable cold, but there is something so much more comfortable about summer time. Here are some picks from my recent DJ sets which I think and hope you’ll enjoy.
caught my ear with this impeccable track appearing on Rene Breitbarth’s Deep Data label compilation EP, Slow Down. Gotta love all the different elements coming together in this track, and though the theme of the EP was “taking it slow,” I find that this track gets me energized like a good opener track to a deep DJ set. “Deeper than the ocean,” was the astute observation of one of the track’s supporters in this promo video above. Sounds about right.
has been earning props around Brooklyn’s house music scene, his tracks on labels like Dirt Crew, Outernational, and Sleazy Beats have been making appearances in guest mixes on radio shows like Beats in Space, and a little digging into his back-catalogue reveals this gem. I love how smooth this track feels, invoking the namesake of the track title with sounds that conjure up images of Miami beach. Great feel-good summer sizzler that samples the illustrious .
Freerange newcomers Suburb made some waves with their track “The Kid” off of a Hafendisko compilation that I really took a liking to after hearing it on one of the best installments of the Freerange Records podcast I’ve heard in a long time, just a couple months back. Suburb is back with a fantastic contribution to the latest iteration of the Freerange Color Series compilation, this track Aspiration has a great balance of relaxing tones and percussive energy, along with playful vocal stabs that never threaten to derail the playful vibes the track exudes.
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might have given deep house selectors the year’s best opening track, as evidenced by its appearance on Tony Lionni’s guest mix on a more recent episode of the aforementioned Freerange podcast. You gotta love the way this track sets up the mix, there are many appealing elements at work which I feel could allow the DJ to take things in a number of different directions. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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