Various - DeepWit Autumn Air

From a new label in Holland, we move on to a label in Denmark that's, while not actually that old, already well-established on the TIWWD favourites list. Proper deeper-than-deep house is what DeepWit excel at, for anyone who's just wandered in, and so it is with this five-track sampler.

Loz Goddard's How It Was places sampled speech – actually a sampled speech, if you see what I mean – atop a gently pulsing, hypnotic groove and leaves it to do its thing. Monsieur Electronique's Mind Bomb is another late-night sofa surfer, while O'Berg & Leverin's The Piano Factory unsurprisingly foregrounds the eponymous instrument – in a lilting, minor-key, Harold Budd kinda way as opposed to a hands-in-the-air rave anthem kinda way, you understand. Lloyd Trimmer's Honey isn't ACTUALLY an early 90s deep NJ garage gem on Strobe, of course, but sure sounds a lot like one, and then finally there's Way Out by Dave Martin & Deephoniq, which again is best served after dimming the lights, sitting back and sparking up a fat one…

It's admittedly probably a 'heads-only' affair but since when was that a problem? Crucial bizniss!

Out: This week

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

Lloyd Trimmer – Rafayel

Three quality mixes to choose from on this latest deep house gem from Denmark's DeepWit.

In its Original form, Rafayel is a summer-y, Balearic-ish kinda deep houser with an uplifiting feel and garage-y vocal snips. David Oniani remixes it into a somewhat 'cooler', techier cut with looping, tribally-tinged percussion and some fairly abstract meanderings as the track goes on, but the killer rub for me is the Qmusse Dark Remix: six minutes of stripped-down, dubby goodness for the proverbial 'proper heads'.

With that kind of variety on offer, this should appeal to a range of DJs (and listeners).

Out: This week

About: You can find DeepWit at their website, on Facebook and on Soundcloud

Various – What Happens Now Vol 3

A four-track sampler here – the third in the series, as if you hadn't realised – from Denmark's ever-excellent What Happens.

First up are Jesus Pablo and Robot Needs Oil, who team up for Chikka Dum Dup, a rolling, chugging tech-houser whose name describes it more or less perfectly! That's followed by more rolling, drummy vibes courtesy of Chris Rawles on Don't You Look Back, before Lloyd Trimmer brings us Red Sky At Night, a slightly more laidback affair with Balearic-sounding percussion, long synth washes and a proggy breakdown in the middle. And then finally, label favourite Stanny Abram serves up Wonderwall – not some dreadful housed-up cover of the Oasis song but rather a tuff-ish deep house groove featuring heavily-treated pianos and Afro/jazz vox.

Four very solid cuts from a label you can pretty much always rely on… what's not to love?

Out: This week

About: Find What Happens at their website or on Facebook.