Anthony Mea – Zzaj Died EP

Seeing as I was just bigging up Mr Mea for his contributions to the Spring Tube comp below, now seemed like a good time to tell you about this three-track, six-mix EP he's also got out this week on Deep Site Recordings.

"Waves of deep organic house wrap you up in a blanket of warm, mellifluous balm," is how the hype sheet describes this one, which gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect. Actually, the title cut in particular leans a little more towards that en vogue more clinical, techy sound than that might lead you to believe but other than that, yeah… if unhurried deep house vibes made for post-club chillin' or very late floors are what you're after, you won't go far wrong here.

Oh yeah, and if you held a gun to my head – which I'd really rather you didn't – then my pick of a fine crop would be the Nello Falcitan Jekos Remix of Mea & BPlan's Jade In My House.

Out: This week

About: Deep Site Recordings is based in Croatia, is the brainchild of Tom Krizic and Rory Cochrane, has only been in existence since March and can be found on Facebook, on Soundcloud or at their own website.

Various – Deeper Shades 03

Can't believe it was way back in May when I wrote about the excellent first volume in this set… feels like last week… nor am I entirely certain why Vol 2 never made in onto the blog, maybe I was washing my hair or something… but anyway, here comes Vol 3 in Spring Tube's series.

And yep, it's another winner. For those that couldn't be bothered clicking on the link above, "lazy, stoner-friendly deep and progressive house" is how I described Vol 1. This time out, there's less of the proggy vibes, and instead a few more trax that veer towards ambient/downtempo territory… but otherwise the song remains much the same, with ten cuts from Shimmer, Anthony Mea, Blood Groove & Kikis, MacLaro, Pavel Densiov and Sergey Sivenenko (all but the latter contributing two apiece) that are tailor-made for those late, late driftaway sofa sessions, with BG&K's funk-fuelled, garage-leaning Aura, Mea's uber-deep, atmospheric and aptly-titled Liquidia and MacLaro's Balearic bliss-out Why Don't You standing out in particular.

Superb, is the word. And everybody knows that the word is the bird.

Out: This week

About: You can find Spring Tube on Facebook, on Soundcloud or at their own website.