Name: WPH016 San Soda - You Hear Me by Bart Schoeman
Duration: 5 min 21 s
Description: First track of the new San Soda new 'Toch Al De Vijfde E.P.' on We Play House Recordings.

Detroit Swindle's Debut Album, out on Dirt Crew on march 26th 2014.

Thoughts of she

Buy "Boxed Out" now! -> https://damswindle.bandcamp.com/album/boxed-out

Detroit Swindle | Boxed Out | The Debut Album

Out 24 March 2014

01 B.Y.O.
02 64 Ways feat. Mayer Hawthorne
03 Me, Myself & You
04 Thoughts of She
05 Monkey Wrench
06 Shotgun
07 Center of Gravity feat. Sandra Amarie 
08 For the Love of...
09 The Fat Rat
10 He’s Just This Guy, You Know?
11 Huh, What!
12 F6
13 You, Me, Here, Now

The Debut Album by Detroit Swindle. It has everything you would expect from the Swindles, some slow burners with a hint of disco, some deep house, some banging club monsters and hey, even some leftfield hip hop jams.

The album opens with "B.Y.O.", a track that balances nicely between the DS shuffle and an old school New York style block party. The track is a taste of things to come for the rest of the album, hinting towards a big party vibe, but mellow enough to make it a really interesting listen.

The one thing Detroit Swindle are known for best is their knack for picking the right vocals. For Boxed Out, they came up with some perfect partnerships. They recorded "64 Ways" with none other than one of America's finest soul singers: Mayer Hawthorne. Being a fan of their sound he proposed to do a track together in return for a remix on one of his album originals to be released in 2014. "64 Ways" has a lazy shuffle, a bunch of catchy rhodes chords and few well placed layers of synths that give this track a hint of "Detroit Experiment", wrapped up in an almost poppy house jam.

One of the other vocal tracks is "Thoughts of She", that effortlessly samples the voice of UK soul singer Alice Russel from the track "Pushin' on" by "The Quantic Soul Orchestra". There's also the gorgeous track "Center of Gravity" that has Berlin based, Ghanese-Canadian soul singer Sandra Amarie on vocals. It's particularly this track that reflects the true spirit of Detroit Swindle's music, a mixture of soul and UK garage meets Detroit house slowed down to a sexy groove with some of their trademark pads and stabs.

They pushed themselves to explore different tempos as well, which not only resulted on some slow house burners, but also in 2 hip hop tracks. "For the Love of..." is a homage to the old school sounds of "J. Dilla", "A tribe called Quest" and "The Pharcyde", combining off-beat shuffles, a gritty bass line and a warm cut-up soul sample. "You, Me, Here, Now" is almost a love song, disguised in a s(w)ing-a-long down tempo type of track. It's one of those "one more tune" kinda tunes.

So there's hip hop, there's soulful vocals, but It just wouldn't be a Detroit Swindle album without a few bangers on it. "Huh, What!", "Shotgun", "The Fat Rat" and "He's Just This Guy, You Know?" are all relentless dance floor monsters, pushing the tempo to match old school Chicago and New York house cuts from the late 80's and early 90's.

With these tracks "Boxed Out" has a great combination of gritty percussions, hot vocals and catchy chords and it is exactly this recipe that has become the much-loved trademark of Detroit Swindle's house universe. The album has a little bit of everything in exactly the right dose, making it both a good listen, and an extremely infectious club album.

64 Ways

Dam Swindle - 64 Ways (Original Mix) [feat. Mayer Hawthorne]

A-ta,Caynas - If You Go Away

TRAXX, Vol. 2 - My House Is Your House

The Break Up

Traxx: The House That Garage Built - Deep House & Garage

For the Very First Time

Stream / Buy : dtw.lnk.to/atmnjams

Autumn often feels like a season of reflections and changes, and with our new compilation, we wanted to share with our community some of the sounds that we have been recently into. Featuring a global roster of music makers like Neguim (Brazil), MadD3e (Rome), ECHLN (South Africa) and Ricky Razu (Belguim), 'AUTUMN JAMS' takes you through a journey of soul-laden frequencies - warm electronic bubblers to sample-based house cuts. It's always essential to progress and evolve, and we hope this compilation will be an integral part of your Autumn.

Shouts to @kayloo-sound, @rickyrazu, @whossounds, @echln, @iindman, @neguim_beats and @camillalunamusic

Compiled by @funk-bast-rd
Artwork by @funk-bast-rd

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Ricky Razu - The Way Luv Goes

Breathing new life into Jovonn's Pianos of Gold, originally released way back in 1993. Taken off the vinyl 'Goldtone Edits', this is the remix entitled 'Ian Pooley Mix 1'. Enjoy!

Goldtone Edits

Pianos Of Gold (Ian Pooley Mix 1)

Jovonn - Pianos Of Gold (Ian Pooley Mix)

First track of the new San Soda new 'Toch Al De Vijfde E.P.' on We Play House Recordings.

WPH016 San Soda - You Hear Me

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Out 12" June 17th 2013 - Digi to follow

WPH016 San Soda - You Hear Me

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