ALBUM Pretty Criminals – Underground Vol 4

It's almost pointless me reviewing this album, to be frank. After all, I've been banging on about how good Savoir Faire Musique is for ages. I've been banging on about how good Pretty Criminals are for even longer.

So when I tell you that here, the Essex duo present their personal favourites from the SFM back catalogue, you can guess I'm going to love it, can't you? I guess I should point out quickly, though, that the album features two unreleased cuts from the PCs themselves: their shuffling, percussive mix of John Diloo & Dimi Wilson's 3 Dots, and the languid, sumptuous What I Know.

Otherwise, I'm just gonna say that with cuts from the likes of Patrick Podage, Danny Quattro, Tony S and Jeremy Breen, this is as fine a consecutive 69 minutes and 48 seconds of deep house music as you're gonna hear all week, and you should purchase a copy at your earliest opportunity.

Out: This week

About: You can find Savoir Faire Musique on Soundcloud or on Facebook.

Jeremy Breen – Sense

Some typically lush deep house grooves here from the ever-dependable Savoir Faire Musique.

The original version from Breen (who you may remember from his previous Holic Down, also on SFM) is a midpaced, blissed-out groover based around sumptuous piano chords, chicka-chicking hi-hats and synths that I'd want to describe as soaring and euphoric, only that makes them sound horrible and cheesy, which they're not.

Said original is accompanied by a brace of rerubs from none other than Martijn, of Deep Edition fame. His Remix takes the track into more floor-centric deep house territory, dominated by an organ line straight outta the mid-90s and additional chopped-up, chant-style vox, while his Stripped Dub is… well, more of the same basically.

Classy stuff, whichever mix you go for.

Out: This week

About: You can find Savoir Faire Musique at their website, on Facebook and on Soundcloud.