Deep House Classic's & Fundamentals

Frankie Knuckles - Your Love (Original)

Bobby Konders is a Brooklyn-native who made his name spinning reggae and Carribbean music for Hot 97, as well as starting his own dancehall/reggae label Massive B in 1991. Konder continues to go strong as a riddim DJ, but in his early years he also managed to produce some incredibly fine house records. This particular release was released on the revolutionary NYC electronic dance label Nu Groove in 1990. Our personal favorite track is "The Poem," but what is so great about this EP is the diversity and quality of each song. Deep house, acid, dub, straight jacking house - all represented in top form!

Nervous Acid

The Poem

Crustation were a short-lived trip-hop group with ties to Portishead and Massive Attack; their 1997 single "Flame" was a perfectly nice, totally innocuous, and mostly forgettable contribution to the drowsy downbeat catalog. The journeymen producers Mood II Swing put their characteristically light, funky touch on a club-friendly remix of the song, as they did hundreds of times during their run as New York's most dependable remixers. But Mood II Swing also had a murkier, more abstracted side; you can hear it in productions like "Move Me," "The Slippery Track," and the eerie "Inhale," which sounds like Gary Numan's "Cars" being sucked through a Teflon wormhole. But they outdid themselves on the "Borderline Insanity Dub" of "Flame," lacing a skipping, proto-U.K.-garage beat with hiccupping vocal loops and a lithe, shadowboxing bass line; the icing on the cake comes courtesy of a swirling fog of vocal harmonies that pans from speaker to speaker. Running out of phase with the beat, it lends a sense of tidal ebb-and-flow, throwing the time deliriously out of joint. The fact that Mood II Swing never produced anything else quite like it only makes this fluid, enveloping tune all the more irreplaceable. P.S.

Crustation - Flame (Mood II Swing Borderline Insanity Dub Mix)

On paper, Curtis Jones' split musical identity reads as a classic Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde scenario. He reserves his Cajmere alias for house productions, while the green-mohawked, dress-wearing Green Velvet dishes out white-knuckled techno with a cutting sense of humor. In reality, though, the line between the two is porous; one of Cajmere's most famous tracks, "Percolator," is as punishing and twisted as the gnarliest of Green Velvet's output, and the low-slung purple funk of Green Velvet's recent "Bigger Than Prince" could easily have been released as a Cajmere production. But he's never gone deeper than on 1992's "Brighter Days," featuring the Chicago singer Dajae's gospel-inspired R&B over shuffling drum programming and uplifting organ chords.

Of the song's many mixes, Louie Vega's Masters at Work remix took it furthest, adding piano, looping and layering Dajae's voice, and stretching the whole thing out to nearly 11 delirious minutes. Made in Chicago and given a soulful New York garage twist, it also anticipates the skipping rhythms that U.K. garage would adopt later in the decade. Closer to home, the song also had an impact on plenty of kids who would grow up to become footwork DJs and dancers, as evidenced by DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn's recent track "Brighter Dayz." Cajmere and Dajae's song was a "classic hit for me and these guys," Rashad told SPIN earlier this year. "Everybody out here, really. I might have been in seventh grade when that came out. It was just a song that we always like. It was like, man, we had to do it. We just did it our own way."

CAJMERE Feat DAJAE - BRIGHTER DAYS

02 578 (Omar S. Rude Boy Warm Mix)

The Kevin McKay remix of the Wanderer has been licensed to Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label and so we decided to get some new mixes in to run alongside Rob Mello's much feted No Ears Remix.
Photo 51 are Nico De Ceglia and Franky Redente. For those who don't know, Nico is one half of the Hyena Stomp project with Severino (Horse Meat Disco) and also a scout for Pete Tong's show on BBC Radio 1. 
Louis Guilliaume is a dutch producer whose 2 recent contributions to the Home Taping compilation are stand-out basement house music.

Romanthony - The Wanderer (Photo 51 Diffraction Mix)

st.etienne - only love can break your heart ( maw dub)

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We are especially pleased to be able to offer you the official re-release of this 'lost' 6-track mini
album by New Yorker Ben Cenac (of Newcleus fame). It was recorded and released in 1990 and is
an absolute gem of a record, which is very much in the vein of Larry Heard's best recordings.
Electronic soul classic! Now available again for the first time in 22 years, remastered + full artwork.
'A truly, dreamy, beautiful classic deep-house mini-album from the golden-post-Larry Heard era.
New-yorker Ben Cenac, who was also member of electro pioneers Newcleus (and part of Sha-lor,
who had a cool jazzy garage-house hit in the late 80's), shows a great sensibility and delicacy here
in following mr Heard's path.
His approach is perhaps slightly more sci-fi in the synths and pad sounds, and perhaps a tad less
crafted and mercurial in production than the master (ie less timeless), but this adds in realness and
charm.
So, past the classic deep-garage dream "My Love Turns To Liquid" (in the vein of these sultry
garage productions from Peter and Vanessa Daou), the rest of the record shows constant quality,
with song titles that could have been (or actually have been) used by Mr Heard himself, and a
content oscillating between warming deep-house, sweet acid, lush garage and relaxed spacejazz
piano parts, the whole thing also evoking the Beloved's better 'rave' moments ("The Sun Rising"
etc).
This record could be studied in university as the synthesis of the deep-house scene of the early
1990s. Classic.' (Review by Restless, taken from Discogs).
Press, licensing,

A1 Dream 2 Science - My Love Turns Liquid

Chez Damier - Untitled (KMS049)

Delectable Detroit music producer, record label owner and producer Anders has bottled Summer with this Balearic anthem, New For U. Become familiar, wherever you are wind the window down, recline or get ready for a weekend full of hot weather. Forget work, it's Friday.

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Andrés - New For U

Remember the house...

"Deep Burnt", is based musically on Freddie Hubbard's "Little Sunflower". 

Pepe Bradock - Deep Burnt

This has been uploaded before but this version seems to have an overall cleaner sound too it than the other versions on SoundCloud (and this space has been pretty sparse of house which is a serious crime).

Still it's such a big 90's beat that I have not been able to get enough of, enjoy!


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Round Two - New Day (Clean Vocal Club Mix)

This is a little J&D reinterpretation of a stone cold classic by one of house music's founding fathers Larry Heard (aka Mr Fingers). In J&D's own words: "The original is sublime and cannot be improved, this rework is only a tribute to one of our heroes." 

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Deep House Classic's & Fundamentals

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