The Galleria - Calling Card

A cross between disco and old house music, with slightly camp soft-pitched female vocals.  Just on the side of very cool - this could easily have been awful and maybe you think it is too.

Borai - Anybody From London

I heard this on a mix by Pinch.  It has a real rave kind of energy to it, it tells people from London to fuck off and just has this rawness all through it.  Quite possibly influenced by Special Request.

Cristi Cons - Bird In Space

Hypnotic beauty from one of the stars of 2015, with strains of a deep house classic.

Benjamin Damage - Cosmonaut

It’s trance, Jim, but not as we know it.  This breaks down into almost semi-cheese trance territory before bypassing back into a straight-forward techno track.  Solid.

Cracking album too.

French Fries & Bambounou - Mizu Ni Idou Suru

A gorgeous piece of plodding dub techno.

Samu l - Bella Mattina

A quiet plodder, with the huge exception of some hauntingly beautiful piano twists.  Superb.

Frits Wentink - Blaise Montoya

Classy sounding garage track - kind of straddling a deep house/garage divide.  Very, very nice.

Vid - Camelie

Hauntingly beautiful piano-laden minimal track - Vid is going to be a massive star in a very underground way.

Schaa - Masquee

Chuggy minimal that grates along a bass-driven floor.

Galcher Lustwork - I Neva Seen

Slow, luxurious deep house.  It isn't helping my low motivation levels, I just want to lay down with my eyes closed and listen to this repeatedly.

Naeem Johnson & Koffee TheFirstFloetress - Zanzibar Days

This is a bit of a grower, a house track with a woman singing over the top about how good the old days were - yet this track is good enough to replicate the classic house sound.

Groovy.

Mathew Jonson - Marionette (The Beginning)

Did you know that you needed a new version of Marionette in your life?  Neither did I but this is just beauty in smaller and more subtle packaging that the original.

Silat Beksi - It's All About Feeling

It is indeed all about feeling and this oozes hypnotic warmth.

Einzelkind - 808 Rhythm Traxx 3

A really stripped back piece of percussive house - back to basics in more ways than John Major managed.

Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso

Sometimes tracks take a few years to grow on you, and this certainly has with the waspish strings and the impulsive inserts.