Cesar Caballero – Funketeao

Three very different mixes on offer of this cut from Colombian-born, Toronto-resident Cesar Caballero on his own Groove Garden imprint.

In its original form, Funketeao is a pleasant-enough slab of house music, with rolling beats, a "Music!" vocal sample and a hint of Balearic-style prog. But it's the remixes that are doing it more for me. The Omid 16B Remix is a deeper pass with a distinctly dubby edge, particularly as the track progresses (if you'll pardon the pun). Butter the Butcher, on the other hand, goes the other way entirely, packing his mix with rave/nu-nrg-style pulsing synth bass to produce a certified rump-shaking call to the dancefloor.

And in this case, two out of three is plenty to be going on with, ta!

Out: This week

About: I've told you most of what I know about Groove Garden Recordings – if you want to know more, check out their website, Facebook and Soundcloud pages.

Paul Sparkes – Break U Down EP

Paul Sparkes is a British DJ who lives in Amsterdam, where he's promoter and resident at Floorplay and a regular on 365Live radio. Here, he serves up an EP of deep/tech house grooves for Sex On Wax Recordings.

There are three tracks in a total of five mixes. Break U Down itself is a contemporary-style deep/tech chugger with sampled speech vox, while The Look is a more upbeat and percussive tech-house cut. You then get three mixes of Come On: one from Paul himself and two from label co-owner Omid 16B. The three mixes don't vary hugely but again, if now-sounding deep/tech vibes are what you're after, you won't go far wrong here.

Out: This week

About: SexOnWax is Omid 16B and Desyn Masiello's label, just in case you weren't aware, and they live here

Fraser Owen – Nascent EP

The latest from Wesley Burden and co's Sideways Recordings stable here.

In its original form, Slide To Unlock – credited to Fraser Owen & Bradley P – is a fairly mellow, unhurried kinda deep house groove from the dreamy side of the street, completed halfway through by the arrival of some looping female vocal snips. It's probably best suited to warm-up or afterhours play, but in these lower-tempo times who knows? Omid 16B then supplies a rub that takes us into minimal/deep techno pastures, while bringing the EP to a close is Elixir, which is credited to Fraser Owen & Ben Macklin and which is a slightly more driving deep houser with a slightly proggy kinda feel.

It's the Original of Slide To Unlock that I'm loving the most but this is a strong package all round, and well worth investigating.

Out: This week

About: Sideways Recordings are based in Folkestone, Kent and can be found at their website, on Facebook and on Soundcloud.