Various - MUM ADE Sampler 2012

Sorry for no updates yesterday or the day before – there were reasons but, y'know, we're here now…

Let's get the ball rolling tonight with a couple of ADE samplers. The first comes from Manchester Underground Music, and if you're familiar with the label (and you ought to be by now) then you'll have a good idea of the kind of deep house, tech-house and techno bizniss to expect.

The artists involved are (deep breath) Kyka, Merimell, OD Muzique & Mark Holmes, Stanny Abram, Soul Holder, Carlos Pulido & Lopezhouse, Peter Pizzutelli and Edy Ramas & Danny Torres. I'm not going into all nine tracks individually but Kyka's Butterfly Effect is a garage-y, scat-y deep house gem and Stanny's Happy Face is a fine slice of uplifting peak-time tech-house chug. That's two very good reasons to check this right there.

Out: This week

About: You can find Manchester Underground Music on Facebook, mostly

Stanny Abram – Thank You

Yesterday we had What Happens boss Tim Andresen cropping up on Seamless Traxx… today, we have sometime What Happens artist Stanny Abram making an appearance on Manchester Underground Music.

Thank You, in its Original form, is a reasonably uptempo tech-houser with rolling, almost Latin-y beats, vocal stabs that build up into a looped "wanna thank you for the joy you brought me" line and, as the track progresses, jaunty pianos. Not a world-beater perhaps but it'll keep 'em moving for sure. On the B, techno bod Mark Holmes supplies a remix that's probably best filed under 'techno', sure, but also shows a strong influence from cosmic/Italo disco in its use of analogue synth sounds.

Out: This week

About: You can find Manchester Underground Music on Facebook. Meanwhile, other labels the Slovenian producer Mr Abrams has had stuff out on include such TIWWD faves as Savoir Faire Musique, F*** House Music and Punch Underground, as well as many others – find out more at his Soundcloud page.

Twisted Sista & Mark Holmes - It's Been Done EP

The first release from a brand new label here, Channelled Recordings. They're based in Manchester and say their mission is to provide the world with some "top notch deep, progressive and tech house".

So it should be no surprise that the overall vibe on this three-track EP is, well, deep, proggy and techy! More specifically, Disco Depp is dark, techy prog, My Heart Can't Breathe is deep, dark and techy while It's Been Done itself is deep, dark and techy but with proggy overtones. Or, alternatively, we could just ditch the pigeonholes and the bullshit, and just say all three tracks are quality tougher house music made for dark rooms and small hours, with a tendency to no-nonsense driving beats and spoken vocal samples.

Yeah, let's do that.

Out: This week

About: You can find Channelled Recordings on Facebook and Soundcloud. Mark Holmes, incidentally, TIWWD readers may be familiar with thanks to previous releases on Manchester Underground Music, and he's also had bits out on Sci+Tec, Azuli and Sex On Wax

Matt Smallwood - Delphic

Some more quality deep house action for you tonight, this time coming from rising UK producer Mr Smallwood and the ever-checkable Manchester Underground Music.

The Original of Delphic is a chugging, somewhat proggy instrumental dancefloor workout, while Ovi's mix ups both the tempo and the tech quotient a little. Both will move bodies for sure, but it's really the Mark Holmes Remix I'm feeling the most, as he takes the track considerably deeper and dreamier… in this form, Delphic becomes the kind of deep house cut you'd want to shut your eyes and lean back with a 'long cigarette' to enjoy at its best and, well, there's always room in the collection for another of those, isn't there?

Out: This week

About: Manchester Underground Music, as I've said before, can be a bit techno-oriented for me at times but when they do deep house, they do it exceptionally well, as I've also said before!