Jeff Keenan – Sweet EP

We jump back over to the other side of the pond now with this latest from Boston's Headtunes Recordings, which comes from local boy Jeff Keenan.

There are just two tracks, but six mixes in total. Sweet itself is, again, a very now-sounding affair, peaktime deep/tech house with garage-y overtones in its original form. NYC's Daniel Marin pushes the 'deep' slider up and the 'tech' slider down on his mix, while LA's Android Cartel do the reverse on theirs and Brummie lad Dan Warby represents for the UK, taking us into organic, soul/funk-fuelled pastures with a Rhythm & Sax mix that's got 'Southport' written all over it. 

Need Love, meanwhile, is all Murk-y drums, some of the deepest pads/drops known to mankind and layered ethereal female vox… a 5am dancefloor dream… while Tamer Maliki & Sergio Santos give the track a more straight-up 4/4 backdrop and downtune the vocal half an octave or so. 

The original of Need Love and the Marin Rub of Sweet would be my picks here but it really is all… the opposite of bad, to coin a phrase.

Out: This week

About: You can find Headtunes on such popular social networking services as Soundcloud and Facebook, or alternatively, you might like to visit them at their own website. 

Android Cartel – Tattle Tale Nightlife EP

Been a while since we heard from F*** House Music… all the activity of late seems to have been around sister label Sleazy Deep. But here they are back again with a three-tracker from LA's Android Cartel, a duo comprising DONS Reagan and Chris AKA (NB: those may not be their real names).

The hype sheet has this down as techno, but I'd say tech-house was at least equally fitting a description, especially in the current climate (see Pig & Dan review, below). Nightlife rides a chugging, rolling rhythm with a male vocal that sounds like it's saying 'LSD, well well' but probably isn't. Tattle Tale Room is in a similar kinda vein, a little bit tougher perhaps but still not enough so to frighten off house peeps, while To The Rescue is a tuff, drummy and echo-y affair with a vocal that may or may not be a heavily-treated lift from Happiness Is Just Around The Bend*… actually, again it probably isn't but you get the idea.

A solid bet if your floors like it a little tougher and more driving. I believe there's also a remix EP doing the rounds but I – sob! – didn't get sent that…

Out: This week

About: You can find F*** House Music at their website, on Facebook and on Soundcloud.

*As also used on Nightmares On Wax's Aftermath and Renegade feat Ray Keith's Something I Feel back in the day, if that helps.