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High quality reissue of a seminal house tune from 1995. Mastercut at Dubplates & Mastering

RAWAX proudly welcomes Theodor Roberts to the Family!
We're happy to present you this new talent on our sublabel HOUSEWAX. The "Chicago Girl EP" is just the beginning - watch out for more T.R. action!

The White Man & The Arab return with their fifth release, The Exchange EP, further developing the sound that's made their previous four outings so alluring.Informed by a range of cues that reflect the pairs' influences, you can sense dub, ambient, minimal, a love for eerie melodies and raw deepness permeating from this EP's start to finish.The A side kicks off with "On The Floor" - a nod to the fact that the whole EP was crafted literally on the floor (the studio was 'in transition') - signals what awaits the listener for the duration of the EP. Moody pads, slowly progressing melodies and their signature syncopated drum patterns. "People Say" follows next, instantly shifting up a gear - this is a solid dancefloor shaker with a simple but seriously effective bassline that will be lodged in your brain, a sharp hi-hat & clap combo and a disembodied, haunting vocal that chants along to the beat.Flip the record over for the title track - "The Exchange" - areverb-drenched ethereal club cut that gets it's unstoppable sense of motion from the irresistible percussion workout, while the squelchy acid line adds that extra rawness. Rounding off the EP "Sideways" signals a distinct nod to Detroit. No homage in sight though - it's been carefully distilled via their own signature processes resulting in a somewhat emotional, dubbed out track - perfect supplement for when you're starting to land back to earth...

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New mysterious no name label dropping 4 amazing House tracks, from well known artists showing their skills.
The label is focussing on downtempo, warm deep, soulful, and sexy House music, 350 copys worldwide, handstamped and numbered.
Make sure you get your hands on this before its gone.

This guy Leibniz is back on Rat Life Records. You might remember him from the collaboration with Credit 00 on Basement Toolz Volume II. This time he goes for a full solo EP. The three course menu consists of a grimy appetiser called "Bat", if your stomach can handle this, we serve "Uzi" as a main course, a whole round of bullets, very hard to digest. "2 Simple" is for dessert, again quite heavy, full of fat and definitely not gluten-free.

Dear operators,Roman Flügel " third take. Hot on the heels of "Brian Le Bon" and the "Desperate Housemen EP", the man like Roman IV, Soylent Green and Alter Ego's spectacled half supplies four tracks of heavenly proportions. Ramona doesn't even know where to start with her eulogy, but at the start. The EP opener "O.T.H." feels like a time travel to bleepy Sheffield and dreamy Detroit while wearing the equipment of today. Same goes for "Girls With Status" that acts as a mellow 808 yet straight forward counter part to the Balearic beach grip hop that is "Thank You Jack". Crowning all that is the gurning bass line reverie of "Cookie Dust" that will leave you and your favourite DJ top and speechless. Enough descriptions! What's left to say Oh yes, this record had Gerd Janson salivating - and he won't be the only one.

1994 - Chicago producer Rick Lenoir has already released a slew of legendary records under many well known aliases and his House Jam label has been in business since '87. The Sanctuary Project is the nom de plume utilised by Rick for this particular killer Disco infected 4 track EP from that period. The keen eared among you will no doubt recognise some of the sample sources used throughout these tracks, Lenoir flips jazzy loops, chopped up vocals and lays it all out over some kicking drum programming, this is that style of sample based House that has the hardened dance heads and hip-hoppers unified, gritty, raw and brimming over with soul! The cuts featured on this EP will sit nicely with most contemporary sounds and shows how on the money Rick was in the mid 90's! The record has long been out of print and has been forever popular with the diggers out there, commanding a healthy price when available in the second hand stores and online. This reissue has been realised with the full involvement of Rick Lenoir / House Jam Records, Chicago and is 100% legit! Don't snooze, this one deserves a spot in any self respecting House heads record bag or DJ set, classic material made available again for 2017 - 'Running it'!

Cockney Lama infuses bumping basslines, sampled vocals, catchy chords, tight percussion and a whole lot of love. Following the ethos of the label he blends the right amount of old skool vibes to sit this perfectly on the right side of the 90's bar. No gimmicks, just pure house vibes that groove for days.

The legendary Prescription Records defined the 1990s deep house sound. Now captured in this monumental 6LP anthology boxset! Holds numerous classics that have been out of press for years + previously unreleased tracks, huge tip!!
Prescription: Word, Sound and Power' presents the groundbreaking Chicago based house label's anthology, holding milestone songs + four previously unreleased tracks.

Prescription Records defined the 1990s deep house sound. Chez Damier and Ron Trent started the label in 1993, released some two-dozen singles in a four-year span, many of which attained legendary status on the underground scene. Chez Damier and I started the label, because we had the idea to take a certain level of fidelity and bring that fidelity to what people call tracks. Tracks being drum orientated Chicago rhythm tracks with a minimalistic melody. We were playing with that idea, expounding a point of
that minimalistic aspect and making it more complex', Trent explains.

Ron Trent was born in Massachusetts but raised in Chicago, listening to jazz and learning percussion. He began DJing in 1982, playing at area high schools. His first EP, containing the epic instrumental Altered States,' was released on Armando Gallop's Warehouse Records in 1990. Chez Damier (Anthony Pearson) grew up in Chicago, where he danced at the Warehouse as a youth. He left for Detroit in the 1980s, helping to open the Music Institute and working A&R for Kevin Saunderson's label, KMS. Damier and Trent met while Damier was visiting Chicago and immediately hit it off.

Today, Prescription is cited by countless producers as a major influence. It's a very dub experimental label... sound bites, samples, rhythms, and a lot of ethereal stuff, too,' Trent expounds—not to mention. Prescription's embrace of heavy sub-bass. Concludes Trent, It was ahead of its time, definitely.'

Christian B & Lavvy Levan return with the second instalment of their 'Sounds from the Den' series on Friday Fox Recordings. This latest vinyl 4-tracker picks up where Vol.1 left off and continues to explore the outer reaches of the house genre, kicking off with the massive 'Weak' from Fatty Mombassa which combines Fatty's now trademark spoken word against a ferociously infectious disco influenced groove. South Africa's Rudi Botha & Miggza return with a looped-funk affair in the form of 'People Come Together'. Rob Slac delves deep into the dark recesses of a tech-style groove with the deliciously sultry 'Lonesome Butterfly'. The package is completed by the upfront sound of Kieron Ayres 'What Must I Do'.

Church start 2017 in familiar fashion, introducing Ben Hauke to the label.

Underground tip SERIOUS TROUBLE presents the next instalment by NASTY KING KURL with three ghetto-trap-house driven pounders! Get nasty with the king for some serious trouble on the dance-floor!

LTD handstamped Copies only !

Illusion Recordings are back after a years break from releasing music for their 10th and most ambitious release. They took a break to step back and build a strong platform for the future and build a crew of high calibre Artists who represent and showcase their musical identity which they have built over their first 9 releases and two sub labels. Tom & James believe in quality over quantity and as such have chosen not to rush this project and have waited until everything was artistically just right. The release encompasses everything the label has been working towards the last 5 years and is the antithesis of the disposable, saturated market we find today. The release is a double gatefold vinyl only release featuring Keith Worthy, Norm Talley, Tommy Vicari Jnr, Janeret, John Shima, Bobby O'Donnell and Annie Errez. The release spans all shades of house and techno and solidifies Illusions place as an exciting and forward thinking label for real music heads.

Sonderr embark on the first expedition into the exotic lands of palm trees and blue skies with their moody, synth heavy 'Goin Home EP'. Four dusty jams packed full of ambient textures, gritty drum sequences and scorching acid basslines.

* Remastered 2017 limited repress * - Stunning harmonic Chicago house classics from 1995. Music from heaven.

Amsterdam's fastest, getting down with the machines and laying down some proper dirty rhythm tracks.....

Over the last sixteen years Moods & Grooves has amassed a staggeringly impressive label family that includes names like Theo Parrish, Mr G, Kyle Hall, Rick Wade, Andres & Kenny Dixon Jr. aka Moodymann. This May the legendary Detroit label returns with a seminal thirteen-track album from veteran DJ & producer Joe Le Bon entitled 'House Music Love Music'.

With this new LP Jarno Eerola aka Joe Le Bon demonstrates his inimitable production prowess, garnered from a musical career spanning more than twenty years and encompassing releases on labels such as International Deejay Gigolo Records, Pro-Tez, Plastik.FM and Blumenbeat. Alongside his own output the Berlin-based artist has written tracks and remixes for numerous producers, most notably composing DJ Hells chart- smashing remix of Tim Deluxe 'Transformations' which saw six continuous weeks at number one on Beatport.

Jarno's polished production ability and aptitude for exploring diverse sounds and rhythms whilst maintaining a resolute warmth and depth to every cut is the most prevalent footnote across the course of the album. For 'Ghosts On Cassette' the Berlin-based producer works whirring space-like atmospherics over hypnotic beats and shuffling snares to dish up a smooth and captivating opener. 'For Yasuni' and 'The Road Is Under Repair' get worked over subtle synth patterns and crisp percussion to offer up some of the more emotive provisions on the album. This in contrast to the deep driving beats of 'House Music Love Music' and the more club-ready tracks like '82 Degrees' or 'Like Cotton Deep Orchestra' truly exemplifies the wide-ranging nature of the album.

All in all Joe Le Bon has structured a sublime body of work that can be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home or the middle of a dance floor, each and every track oozes depth and sits as a true testament to his abilities in the studio.

After a short break in releases, Plastik People are back with the third installment of the Various People. We see label owner Marc Cotterell up first with his slice of 90's house music, incorperating slick grooves and catchy cut up vocals, along side mark on side A, a new addition to the Plastik People family from london, Charles Caliber, who graces the EP with a stunning soulful house groove called Moving On. On the flip side NYC artist Doug Gomez brings us a classic sounding, deep head nodding track which was originally releases on Frole records and we loved it so much that we decided it needed a vinyl releases, to round off the EP Mikki Funk graces us w with a splendid cut of UK garage from Mikki Funk has released previously on RM Records and Music IS Love & we love his work.

The vinyl release from Japanese DJ/producer Kaoru Inoue's alias Chari Chari as the new band. It has been 14 years since the last release Aurora EP - which has been played by lots of deep house DJs - on vinyl.

Vinyl is still personal and the reason of existence of the V.I.P. Series. The previous three V.I.P. releases were all one-sided so it was more than time to give you a full E.P. of WPH goodies. And when we realized that there has never ever been a full remix E.P. on WPH the decision was quite easy.
So we present you an E.P. with 4 remixes of FCL's 'Can We Try'. And seeing as we care about value for your money you are presented with 4 very different takes on the FCL original. After all, we already pleased girls and gays alike with some dubs on the very first FCL release 'Vocals For Everyone'.

The Deetron remix sees the Swiss dancefloor master in his usual storming remix form, making for a monster of a track. Label boss Red D celebrates his love for old Italian Yamaha DX 21 house sounds and cuts up the vocal MK style. WPH mainstay Russ Gabriel asked Red D to do a remix of this one himself and who are we to refuse him Knowing that he will deliver with class and panache. A fourth and final version sees Kiani & His Legion going for a Daft Punk approach to great effect.

General Ludd is Rich McMaster from New Jersey and Tom Marshallsay from Canterbury. The guys met at the Glasgow Art School, where Rich studied environmental art and Tom studied fine art. Their first collaborations were interactive sound installations, but that quickly gave way to all night music making sessions. This is their second EP for us - a more left field turn than their first, but, we can assure you, both tracks will break discerning dancefloors wide open.

Intr0beatz from Iceland is making some serious waves in the music industry at the moment and is next up on the Something Else 12" series. With these 3 original tracks 'All Set', 'Make My Day' & 'Sour Dough' he perfectly combines the ethos of the labels sound, as he blends the right amount of old skool vibes to sit this perfectly on the right side of the 90's bar. No gimmicks, just pure house vibes that jack and groove for days.

WPH kicks off 2015 with a new E.P. by the mighty Luv Jam from Wales. Living in a universe that is entirely his own Andrew Cole has cooked up two more of his 'especially for WPH'-tracks.
One here at WPH HQ can only be flattered! 'Californian Freestyler' is the more peak time burner of the two, but 'BMX Bandito' will not disappoint the more discerning punters out there either.

On remix duty we find the main artist from our friends at Uncanny Valley in Dresden, Jacob Korn. Any work by Jacob is always a treat and this here is no exception. Flexing our digging talents we have also licensed a Luv Jam remix from the good people at Panta Rhei that was only released on limited 7'. We feel it deserved to be on a 12', so there.

Jacking Chicago tracks on this first EP by Offenbach's freshmen 'AM UNIT' containing three original tracks plus a solid remix by Lauer (one half of Tuff City Kids). A-sided 'Gotta Slow Down' and 'Hold Back' are classic examples of dancefloor fillers while B-sided 'Raw Jam' is a hard and super effective acid track that leaves no-one indifferent. The Dub mix of 'Gotta Slow Down' by Lauer is an oscillating interpretation of the original track with an efficient piano line! Limited to 400 hand stamped and numbered copies!

We're launching a bit of a one-off series here at Kolour LTD called "10's". They'll be a series of two-track, 10" releases that we'll sprinkle in from time-to-time along the way. Our first offering comes courtesy of our boy Chezz. We'll let the music do the rest!

Written, Produced and Mixed by Diego Gámez @ Deep End Studios, Barcelona, Spain for Deependance Music (SGAE).

Feedback so far:

Dan Curtin -Saab is the one!
Meat (Freebase) - Saaaab 4 me!
Steve Lawler - Downloaded for Steve Lawler, thanks.
Bodyscrub - nice release, thanks!
Nicolas Duvoisin - really nice one !
Matt Star - nice one!
Marco Carola - thanks!
Posivision DJ Mag (Japan) - Dope!! nice one.
Xpansul - Nice sounds. Will play! Thanks
Robert drewek - Lovely ep - in my bag!

GLENVIEW's first release from Chicago's GLENN UNDERGROUND is a 3 track deep house stunner. "SMOKE" is a lush, melodic instrumental track that is both uplifting and hypnotizing. "SMOKE BONUS BEATS" is a stripped down rhythm track and "THE SOFT DRINK" is a smooth, feel good house groover. Get this!

Elemental house grooves from Midwestern upstart Appian with a remix by Chicago's Bell Boys. Warm, sensual, and gloriously straightforward, Stripped & Chewed 012 is a modern study in the timelessness of house music. Recommended!!

We are truly honoured to welcome back to the Landed imprint one of the originators and true players of the Detroit House music scene, Norm Talley. Over the last year, Norm has been working hard on a remix project of his 2012 Landed hit, Travlin - resulting in two stunning Dub/Techno/House classics, The ReWorks. A very special, black and yellow, limited edition 10" vinyl cut of The ReWorks is being released to coincide with Record Store Day 2014 on April 19th. Starting off in true Talley style, Norm treats us to his trademark 909 drum vibes complete with a strong jazzy stab which will cut through the dance floors like a hot knife through butter. The tougher ReWork of Travlin, Part 1 engages you
instantly, captivating the soul. A perfect ReWork of the original classic! Part 2 takes us on a strong, Travlin dub trip. Raw tight drums with a Deep grooving baseline work seamlessly with the warm 909 percussion and haunting Travlin string to make this dub version the perfect track to warm up any party. Another super
ReWork of the original classic! This stand-out 10" wax is a true Norm Talley collector's item and is certainly a record not to be missed.

The mysterious Hyenah is back with a vengeance, once again delivering a vicious assault on unsuspecting bystanders with snapping jaws and a deadly snarl. Ok, enough of that.... Tale From The Dirt is the follow up to this years Hyenah debut The Wish (Dub) which brilliantly combined a raw, edgy, electronic sound with the depth and groove of South African deep house.
This meant The Wish went onto become a firm favorite of veryone from Dixon and Mano Le Tough through to Atjazz and Black Coffee and being rinsed hard from Southport (Weekender) to Soweto.Continuing to push their sound forward Hyenah come correct once again with more Afrocentric goodness, bringing with them Aquarius Heaven for vocal duties. Tale From The Dirt builds on a stripped back, deep groove teasing things out slowly with every little percussion hit and synth stab having it's own space and incredible clarity. Aquarius Heaven brings just the
right vibe with his tripped-out vocals adding to the hazy vibe of the track.Flipping over we have a brilliant remix from Keinemusik's rising star Rampa and a match made in heaven for the job in task it should be said. Here he keeps the bare bones of the original but confidently draws things out further still, building on the intense pulsing synth line and creating energy from seemingly very little. Wait till you hear this through a big system on a packed dancefloor. Finally we have The Chase, a track which could quite easily be the lead track of the EP with it's brutal stabs and rolling beats bringing a tough, techy edge. Once again, Hyenah tease out the arrangement with builds and drops bringing maximum drama but without a white noise riser in sight!

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Jimpster has recently remixed Galcher Lustwerk for Tsuba, thatmanmonkz for Delusions Of Grandeur and Till Von Sein for SUOL. His Eel Pie Island track for Systematic has just come out with remixes from Adam Port and Hyenah. The Adam Port remix went straight into the Beatport Deep House top 10 and is getting plays from many of the top DJ's. His remix of Mr V - Something With Jazz drops on Razor N Tape in October.
Brian Ring's debut release dropped in 2015 on Gerd Jansen's Running Back. This exclusive is only his second ever release but he already looks set for big things.
Clavis return with a fresh track following hot on the heels of their incredible Banza release which won many fans and received countless plays from the likes of Dixon, Ame, Tim Sweeny and Damian Lazarus. Their brilliant follow up entitled Alscine (out in June) has already received glowing praise from Deetron, H.O.S.H, Anja Schneider and Laurent Garnier.