Hooky - Voot EP

Kickstarting the Red Snapper era comes a dancefloor-baiting double whammy from veteran Kiwi producer/DJ/promoter Sean Murray.
Jazz slang for money, Voot is a highly appropriate name for the lead track on the label's debut release.
Smoky jazz meets jacking house, this is a peak-time monster propelled by a hypnotic piano riff and underpinned by a rock-solid disco-style bassline.
Cleverly edited loops and flecks of expertly manipulated vocals complete a surefire winner.
Get Into It takes things a little deeper without losing any sense of momentum.
With a slightly more electronic feel, this is a straight-up roller driven by a morphing baseline and squelchy stabs.
Syncopated keys and organic loops ensure it never loses its sense of soul.

Voot Ep

Voot

Hooky-Voot

get Into It

Hooky-Get Into It

Hooky - Something EP

Hooky's second EP for Red Snapper builds on the impressive reception for its predecessor, Voot.
Here, the Kiwi producer/DJ drops a pair of bombs showing two distinct sides of his studio personality.
Something is a smooth-as, sultry vocal groover on a deeper tip that's perfect for the Northern summer.
Organic percussion and subtle keys create the perfect canvas for the yearning, heartfelt lyrics.
My Heart kicks things up a gear (or two), with a percussive groove building to a cunningly deployed vocal sample.
Precision-tooled dance floor dynamite, It's a little bit disco, a little bit gospel and a whole lot of soul.

My Heart

Hooky- My Heart

Something

Hooky-Something

Soulfoundation kickstart 2024 with Guess You Noticed, another slice of straight-up mayhem for the house-heads.

Sean “Hooky” Murray’s third EP for New Zealand’s up-and-coming Red Snapper label is another superb showcase for his peak-time sound.

It’s a brilliant reminder that less if usually more - with a handful of elements deployed expertly to create an absolute monster of a groove.

Loose-limbed, conga-driven drums dovetail with a swinging live-feel bassline to create a propulsive rhythm section. Old-school stabs enhance the momentum, creating the perfect canvas for key samples: dusty spoken word vocals and woozy jazzy trumpet licks that slide in and out.

The mix is super-crisp with the drums fizzing and skipping, ensuring a track with something of an old-school sensibility sounds bang up-to-date.

The virtual B-side features the Groundhog Remix, a stripped-back dub giving working DJs some options in the mix.

Red Snapper is back - and this one bites!

Guess You Noticed

Soulfoundation-Guess You Noticed (Groundhog Remix)

Soulfoundation-Guess You Noticed (Original Mix)

Mono/Loco lands on Red Snapper with a paean to a pivotal time and place in the growth of the global house movement.

After the acid house revolution of the late 1980s, his native UK went 4-4 crazy. The dance press of the early 1990s was filled with news of nights in previously unfashionable venues as the big-name DJ circuit started to coalesce. The result? One nation under a groove.

Mono/Loco was in the thick of it, regularly attending venues such as Shelley’s in Stoke, Quadrant Park in Liverpool and the Eclipse in Coventry - as well as Manchester’s legendary Hacienda.

Heroic Dancefloor contains multiple nods to the soundtrack of that podium-pounding period, fusing its wide-eyed fervour to a contemporary sensibility. Yes, there are ravey stabs, snatches of diva vocal and held strings, but also pulsing pads and a smooth rolling groove.

“I was incredibly lucky that my formative clubbing experiences were at that point in time,” says Mono/Loco. “It was political as well as hedonistic. The movement might not have changed the world as much as we thought it would, but it changed me.”

Heroic Dancefloor is the latest release from the Natural Rhythms family of labels, which also includes Grass Green, Electric Orange and Black Sands. Like Red Snapper, all take their names from Aotearoa-New Zealand’s beautiful natural environment.

Coming soon, Heroic Dancefloor - Part 2 will feature remixes of the original by fellow members of the Natural Rhythms collective, Soulfoundation and nineteen79.

Heroic Dancefloor-The remixes

Heroic dancefloor

Mono/loco-Heroic Dancefloor

Mono/Loco lands on Red Snapper with a paean to a pivotal time and place in the growth of the global house movement.

After the acid house revolution of the late 1980s, his native UK went 4-4 crazy. The dance press of the early 1990s was filled with news of nights in previously unfashionable venues as the big-name DJ circuit started to coalesce. The result? One nation under a groove.

Mono/Loco (aka Chris Reed) was in the thick of it, regularly attending venues such as Shelley’s in Stoke, Quadrant Park in Liverpool and the Eclipse in Coventry - as well as Manchester’s legendary Hacienda.

Heroic Dancefloor contains multiple nods to the soundtrack of that podium-pounding period, fusing its wide-eyed fervour to a contemporary sensibility. Yes, there are ravey stabs, snatches of diva vocal and held strings, but also pulsing pads and a smooth rolling groove.

“I was incredibly lucky that my formative clubbing experiences were at that point in time,” says Mono/Loco. “It was political as well as hedonistic. The movement might not have changed the world as much as we thought it would, but it changed me.”

Heroic Dancefloor is the latest release from the Natural Rhythms family of labels, which also includes Grass Green, Electric Orange and Black Sands. Like Red Snapper, all take their names from Aotearoa-New Zealand’s beautiful natural environment.

Completing the EP are remixes from fellow members of the Natural Rhythms collective, Soulfoundation and nineteen79.

The Soulfoundation (aka Red Snapper boss Sean Murray) interpretation is a similar mix of then and now - albeit inspired by New York and New Jersey rather than northern and central England. Stripped-back. With shuffling Todd Terry-style drums and swinging stabs, it’s an altogether darker and dubbier affair.

Nineteen79’s deep tech take is a big-room barnstormer firmly rooted in 2024. Weaving expertly processed parts from the original over defiantly different drums, it builds to a breakdown before roaring back to life with some breakbeat action.

Three very different mixes for three very different but equally heroic dancefloors.

Heroic Dancefloor-Nineteen79 remix

Mono/loco - Heroic Dancefloor (nineteen79 Remix)

Heroic Dancefloor-The Remixes

Heroic Dancefloor-Soulfoundation remix

Mono/loco-Heroic Dancefloor (Soulfoundation Remix)

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