The experimental meets the traditional here, on an EP from 3am packing some VERY different mixes.In the experimental/leftfield corner we have two originals from Floris himself. If you like your beats fractured, your rhythms chopped and stuttered and your headspace fucked with, then you should dig both Someone Is Rocking and Stolen Party, both of which also come complete with chopped-up snatches of Cockney vocal. Think of the kind of deep house that might appeal to fans of Domu, 4hero or Luke Vibert…
But in the traditional corner, we have two remixes that, I must admit, are more up TIWWD's disco dolly street. In Michael Scott's hands, Stolen Party becomes a bass-led deep houser with slight overtones of 80s groove/boogie. But the real star of the show is label boss Al Bradley, who shows the young 'uns how it's done on his Rock Your Body Dub of Someone Is Rockin'. Layered, echoing 4/4s, rising synth stabs, a rumbling b-line and sparingly-used sax squiggles join the tiniest of vocal snips here to create a proper deep house delight that'd be just as at home on the dancefloor or the sofa.
With cuts to suit a range of tastes, then, this is worth checking all round. But Al's Dub is the killer for me.
Out: This week
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