Evan Iff – Sweet Babe

Finally for today, we move back into deep house territory with the latest from Jesus Pablo & Di Riviera's Something Different.

In its Original form, Sweet Babe is an interesting mix of influences: the soulful vocal's classic west coast, while the synths and percussion come from a more contemporary deep/tech school of thought. Mix-wise there's a self-explanatory Dub and a typically fine rub from Matches, who puts the vocal through the FX mangle and sparses things right up while adding lots of shuffly top-end. But taking top honours for me is Malin Genie, who gives (give?) us a deeper, sultrier rub.

You won't go wrong with any of 'em, to be fair. But Malin Genie is the one for me here.

Out: This week

About: You can find Something Different on Facebook and Soundcloud.

Evan Iff – Sunlight

It's been bugging me all week what this latest from Something Different reminded me of and I've just realised… if anyone remembers Take Arms by Shimmer from back in about, ooh, 1993? (and not 2003 as, er, some elves sneaked on here and wrote before) then this is in quite a similar vein. But you probably don't. I think I was about the one person in the whole of England that played it at the time.

So that's not much use as a review, and instead I'll explain that in its original form, Sunlight is an organ-sporting and rather sprightly deep/tech throbber with a yearnsome near-falsetto male vocal intoning "I will be the sunlight in your universe". Which seems a tad presumptuous of him to me, frankly, but there you go! Great tune though.

What you also need to know is that it comes with a brace of refixes by Danny 'Moodymanc' Ward: a Daylight Dub with an expansive, almost Balearic feel and a Twilight Dub with… er… well also with an expansive, almost Balearic feel but this time in a more lounge-y kinda way.

Out: This week

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Dale Howard – Signals EP

Two related releases in a row, now. First up, TIWWD fave Dale Howard comes to Jesus Pablo & Di Riviera's Something Different for an EP that marks one year in the game for the label.

With previous releases on Lost My Dog, Off Recordings, Neurotraxx Deluxe and more, Howard's known for his musical and garage-informed take on the deep house blueprint, and so it is here. Signals itself is a midtempo, organ-fuelled groover, while Sub Text packs slightly more slamming kicks but otherwise goes deeper still with its echo-y low-end rumble (see what they did there?). Remix-wise, meanwhile, Evan Iff pumps up Signals somewhat and adds a "get on the floor" vocal loop, while Matt Masters' rub of Sub Text adds tribal percussion to make it more 'afterhours' than 'post-club', if you see what I mean.

It's Signals (Original Mix) that stands out for me but these are four very solid tracks – happy birthday fellas.

Out: This week

About: You can find Something Different on Facebook and Soundcloud.