To launch their new label, the team behind Kickin' Up Dust decided to ask American-German producer George Davis to rifle through his archives and select some unreleased heat. Given that his last solo release was way back in 2007, you'd assume he had plenty of tracks to choose from. What he's offered up is undeniably alluring. For proof, check opener 'Marimba Disco', an infectious blend of live-sounding disco-house grooves, mazy marimba solos, addictive Clavinet riffs and sultry synth-strings. The mighty Kai Alce provides the accompanying remix, reaching for warm and woozy chords while giving the track a lovely organic deep house flex, before Davis returns with the deep Afro-house/broken beat/jazz-funk fusion of 'Ebunya' and the Osunlade-style deep, jazzy, soulful, Latin-tinged house of 'Budoshida'. Class and quality for days!

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George Davis