Copyright feat Andre Espeut – Lifted

Don't overlook this killer from Defected. Not so much for the A-side Lifted itself, though. That's a big room, driving houser with soulfully-inclined male vocal exhortations to lift your hands up… it's okay, but nothing that special.

Which is why I say don't overlook this, because if you'll do you'll miss out on both Sometimes, a deeper house cut with tuff, rolling drums, samples from the same vocal Moby used on Honey and parping sax, and most importantly the Pablo Fierro Remix of Lifted, which drops deeper and adds a stonking great fuck-off Robin S-style organ line. And makes itself an unmissable purchase while it's doing it.

Defected might not be the hippest label to be biggin' up but I don't care – made by a pair of true UK house and garage legends and given a polish by one of the best of Europe's new wave, this is a genuine bomb.

Out: This week

About: You can find Defected here, here and here (web, Facebook, Soundcloud).

Prosis feat Pablo Fierro – Better Days

Here's one of those from last week that I didn't manage to get round to… with my boy Edmund on the remix, though, and coming on the ever-excellent Deepwit, it couldn't just get ignored. Two tracks, four mixes in total, with Pablo Fierro's soulful male vox applied pleasingly sparingly (remember kids, less is more!) on both.


Better Days is a slow-building and very chilled deep houser with a dreamy feel overall and some quietly meandering jazz sax, while the Silt remix strips things down somewhat and takes us into afterhours territory. As for How To Move, think laidback, summery grooves and you're along the right lines with the Original. But for me it's the Edmund remix of this one that stands out, its funkier bassline and added vibes upping the dancefloor ante considerably in a vaguely west coast-ish fashion.

Cool summer vibes all round, then.

Out: Last week. My head is suitably hung in shame.

About: You can find Deepwit here (web), here (FB) and here (Soundcloud)

Edmund ft Pablo Fierro – When It Flows

We're a tiny bit late on this one… it actually came out about a week ago but I only got it yesterday, and it's been ages since we had anything through from my boy Diego, AKA Edmund, so it's going in!

If you like your deep house on the soulful side, then the slow-groovin' original of When It Flows won't disappoint, what with its insistent throbbing b-line, wood block percussion and atmospherics a-gogo. If you want it a little more floor-oriented, though, then head for the remix from fellow Spaniard Soul Minority , which couldn't be much more different as he adds a jackin' Chicago backbeat, squelchy acid b-line and a familiar “runnin'” vocal sample.

Despite there being just the two mixes, then, this is a package that will suit a range of DJs and times/moods. Top stuff… but then coming from Edmund, and on i! Records, what else did you expect?

Out: Now

About: i! Records can be found online here and on Facebook.