Sydney & Lukez - Into Me

The latest from my boy Sydney, once again in company with the man who seems to be pretty much his regular production partner of late, Lukez.

Just the two mixes to tell you about with this one. The original is a driving tech-houser that starts out nice and deep and gets proggier as it goes on – ideal for warm-up purposes, then – while the Roman Rai mix is less about the epic/dramatic melody and more about crisp, sparkling percussion and a big, room-filling bassline.

It's the latter that's floating my boat the most I think, but both will do the damage.

Out: This week

About: This comes of course on Sydney's own Tokyo Red Recordings, who those of you that are paying attention will remember provided us with a rather excellent iDJ cover CD a few months back. You can find out all you need to know about Tokyo Red by visiting their MySpace or Sydney's own website.

Sydney & LukeZ – & I

Yeah, my boy DJ Sydney again, but can I help it if the man keeps consistently coming up with ace house nuggets? What's a boy supposed to do?

So, yes, here he comes again, this time in collaboration with one LukeZ – a new name to me – and, for once, not on Tokyo Red, but rather on Nightshade Music. Actually, & I is a tad more commercial/main room-sounding than most of the Tokyo Red output, but not so much so as to not be worth bothering with. It's just, with that rather polished, pop-style vocal, you might want to play it on an Ibiza terrace more than at some deep house free party in a squat, is all I'm saying.

Randall Jones supplies a remix but it doesn't do a huge amount different, albeit his rub is perhaps a little bit deeper and proggier. So either will work when you need to reach for something that's accessible, that's got bags of energy, but that won't curdle milk at 50 paces.

Out: Now

About: Nightshade Music is a label based in Houston, Texas – find out more here.