Josh Butler - What Is Real? (Edit)

With It (clip)

The Point (feat Kenny Dope) (clip)

Moody (clip)

After That (clip)

Feel It (clip)

Feel It [New York Groove Mix] (clip)

NYC (Half A Tab Mix) clip

NYC clip

NYC(Tedd Patterson's Sleepless In Metropolis Mix) clip

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Talk about the legends of house and Kenny Dope Gonzalez holds one of the undisputed seats in the gallery.  Since breaking out of Brooklyn as New York house began to dominate the 1990s the Dope man rose to the very top with Masters At Work, gaining a peerless reputation as beatmaker, producer and DJ.  Originally brought to Strictly Rhythm as a teenager by Todd Terry, he became one of the key producers in forging the Strictly sound through releases by The Untouchables and Total Kaos, and his work with Louie Vega on the Sole Fusion and Hardrive projects.  Back home at Strictly with a fresh new production (for the first time since 1999), Kenny teams up with another legend of house, Roland Clark (aka South St Player) for Talk Dirty, a rumbustious, risque excursion that sees Clark delivering one of his trademark monologues over Kenny’s perfect beats.  It’s a fitting sound for the 900 number – the landmark nine hundredth single released on Strictly Rhythm.

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Talk Dirty

Talk Dirty (clip)

Bigger, bolder and yes, we have to say it, better: the recent extension of the illustrious Danism to a trio with the addition of new blood Steve Train has rebooted the duo’s musical aspect.  Since the two Dans made common cause they’ve created an impressive tapestry of house works spanning artists such as Arnold Jarvis, Kathy Brown, Heidi Vogel and Rae, and worked with the labels Mn2s, Defected, Food and Noir – and that on the back of Dan Smith’s previous incarnation as one half of Liquid People and Dan Gresham’s profile as a drum & bass producer and A&R with the lauded Hospital stable.  
Train’s arrival gives the nascent trio a wider angle sound that adds a frisson of Detroit via Germany soft techno to Danism’s impeccable house credentials, manifesting in the latest opus Hatch, a majestic, sweeping piece of timeless, atmospheric deep house inspired by a night at London’s Egg club.  The aesthetic?  It’s all about the strings.

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Hatch

DANISM + TRAIN - HATCH (Clip)

The Nightshift EP

Grenada (clip)

The Nightshift(clip)

Wiggler (clip)

Bristol DJ/producer duo Apexape only just got started, but their small handful of releases is already showing their intent to stand tall with their hometown’s incredible music heritage.  Their breakthough track, a remake of the Frankie Beverley & Maze classic Joy & Pain, displayed an unashamed commercial touch and drew praise and plays from all quarters, as well as invitations to remixes for the likes of Emeli Sande. Their other excursions reveal an unusually eclectic breadth of styles drawn from drum & bass, hip-hop and straight up underground house and DJ exploits have already included stints at Glastonbury, Festival No.6, Budafest, Beatherder, Bestival and Snowbombing, a residency on Kiss Fresh FM and shared bills with Eats Everything, Camelphat, Rudimental and Disclosure.

For Amen, featuring the stunning vocals of Tawiah – a sometime performer with the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae and Mark Ronson – Apexape turn their talents to gospel house, a sound that fits Strictly Rhythm like a needle fits in a groove.  The result is a deeply soulful, inspirational session that puts the Bristolians up among Baltimore and New Jersey’s finest.
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/amen-feat-tawiah-ep/id1265531135

Amen

Apexape - Amen featuring Tawiah (clip)

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Put your samples on pause, it’s time for a real-life singer with a real-life song and a real-life attitude:  meet blondewearingblack, the vocalist who pitched up in house music via the unorthodox apprenticeship of DJ driver in Ibiza.  The White Isle will do that to a person.  Having cut her recording teeth with Greg Pidcock’s Disengage (Get Physical) and Mr G’s Precious Cargo (Defected), blondewearingblack presents her finest performance to date on the feisty Let’s Go.

Fresh from their instrumental opus Hatch, which notched a humbling 5/5 from no less than Laurent Garnier, Danism + Train craft a dark, sparse, electronic production that underscores the tension of blondewearingblack’s terse vocal performance.  The late night vibes continue with DJ Le Roi’s neo Eurodisco remix and reach their apogee with a brooding, percussive, classic David Morales Red Zone remix.  Let’s Go.

Let's Go

Danism + Train feat blondewearingblack - Let's Go (clip)

The Music EP

Greco x Mad Villains - The Music (feat Aisha Zoe) clip

Greco x Mad Villains - Slay (feat KE) clip

Greco x Mad Villains - Lil' Bit clip

Master of the West coast mellow vibe, Moulton Music main man Homero Espinosa joins us with a brace of refined and oh so deep soul-jazz joints cooked up with production partner Phaze Dee and spiced by DJ, producer and now vocalist Mikey V.  The tasty trio’s stacked credentials run to releases on King St, Defected, Reel People, Classic, Dirtybird and Cajual so it comes as no surprise to discover a feast of warm, classic keys, understated vocals and all around deepness on Taste Of Your Love (think Larry Heard & Harry Dennis’s The It), while The Way You Dance delivers a more ebullient, pacey groove that brings out Mikey’s inner falsetto.

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The inimitable T. Williams and James Jacob are back on our block with a fine brace of bangers to follow 2016’s The Point EP. Once again the pair’s production pedigree and ear for a good groove is in full effect as showcased by their previous collaborations on T’s Today Tomorrow Records and Kerri Chandler’s Madhouse imprint. 
The Learning Process drafts in Tim Deluxe, the man behind monsters by Double 99, RIP Productions and crossover hit It Just Won’t Do, who reveals a new depth to his abilities as he lays down the core of the track with a classic jazz-funk tinged piano riff.  Counterpart Call It In is the yang to the yin of The Learning Process, a rough-hewn direct to the dancefloor jam that’s all about that rolling bassline.

The Learning Process

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The inimitable T. Williams and James Jacob are back on our block with a fine brace of bangers to follow 2016’s The Point EP. Once again the pair’s production pedigree and ear for a good groove is in full effect as showcased by their previous collaborations on T’s Today Tomorrow Records and Kerri Chandler’s Madhouse imprint. 
The Learning Process drafts in Tim Deluxe, the man behind monsters by Double 99, RIP Productions and crossover hit It Just Won’t Do, who reveals a new depth to his abilities as he lays down the core of the track with a classic jazz-funk tinged piano riff.  Counterpart Call It In is the yang to the yin of The Learning Process, a rough-hewn direct to the dancefloor jam that’s all about that rolling bassline.

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Call It In

The mighty PEZNT, aka Blacksoul and Mark de Line created a whirlwind of releases in 2017, lending their love to labels like Glasgow Underground, Defected, Toolroom, Wired, Metropolitan, Great Stuff, Fogbank and, of course, their own Blacksoul Music.  In between this furious studio activity they still found time to spread their sound live at the Exit Festival, GEM fest in Georgia and Strandfieber in Germany as well as Blacksoul’s weekly radio show on Zagreb’s Yammat FM.  Now we welcome the crazy Croatians to Strictly with another double serving of delights:  the jumping Pelin, featuring a bouncing piano bassline and inspirational sermon, and the more tech-driven pure grooves of Kume. 
‘We like to name most of our tracks by local food and drinks names’ explains Blacksoul of the track titles.  ‘Pelin is short for Pelinkovac, a famous herb liquour made since 1871.  Kume means Godfather, but in daily use it’s what you call your best friends around you.  So in a bar, you order your drink by shouting Kume, one Pelin, please!’

Kume (clip)

Pelin (clip)

Strictly Rhythm Records is house music.  Since 1989 the legendary New York label not only put out records by almost every name in the game, but it also defined house music throughout the 1990s with Erick Morillo, Todd Terry, Louie Vega, Kenny Dope, Armand Van Helden, DJ Pierre, Roger Sanchez, Josh Wink, Ultra Naté and Barbara Tucker.  As well as keeping the underground stoked with a steady supply of club grooves, the label also delivered a stream of crossover hits with Reel 2 Real’s “I Like To Move It”, Ultra Naté’s “Free”, Wamdue Project’s “King Of My Castle” and Wink’s “Higher State Of Consciousness”.  

Relaunched in 2007 after a five year break following a short-lived venture with Warner Music, Strictly Rhythm did what no dance label had ever done: successfully re-launch itself.  The label made many of its classic releases available on digital download for the first time and signed new productions from the likes of Quentin Harris, Osunlade, Bingo Players Vs Chocolate Puma, Dennis Ferrer, Michel Cleis, Dirty South and Bob Sinclar.  
Always an innovator, the label that invented the 12” white label and put out the first ever commercially released DJ Mix CD in 1993 (The Tony Humphries Strictly Rhythm Mix) is still at the cutting edge, finding and promoting the best in house music.

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