Jesus Pablo – See You In San Francisco

Some slow n' sumptuous deep house grooves here from everyone's favourite Scouse houser (ho ho), Jesus Pablo.

The Original of See You In Francisco comes on like old-skool deep Jersey garage – Chandler-esque is the word, I think. Demarkus Lewis's rub is quite faithful but ups the spacey, wonky factor a notch for your 5am dancefloor. Robot Need Oil's remix is Balearic-ish and wee bit proggy, while Damien Exton's rub is just that wee bit tuffer, starting out in vintage Salted/Transport kinda territory and getting progressively more dubbed out and head-fried as it goes on.

I think the Exton rub wins out for me, just, with the Original a nose behind… but this is quality stuff all round really, and something of a heads' delight.

Out: This week

About: This comes aptly enough on San Francisco label Headset Recordings. Find 'em on Facebook and Soundcloud, or at their own website.

Jesus Pablo & Robot Needs Oil ft Novac – No Regrets

Liverpool's Jesus Pablo teams up with Manchester-based Polish producer Greg Kobe, AKA Robot Needs Oil, for this single on veteran US label i! Records.

In its Original form, No Regrets sports a male vocal that sits somewhere between 'indie-ish' and old-time crooners like Charles Aznavour or Maurice Chevalier. Musically, it's a floaty, laidback kind of piece not a million miles from the kind of ethereal soundscapes conjured by (eg) Trentemøller.

The Left Minded Remix is a tad housier while Cesar Coronado's rub fuses influences from progressive house and nu/cosmic disco, but it's the Bubba Remix that's doing it best for me – an unhurried chugger for the afterhours joints, with plenty of fat squelching bass and considerably less of the vocal.

Something of a departure from JP, this, but at least you can't accuse him of getting stuck in a rut…

Out: This week

About: You can find i! Records at their website or on Facebook.

Jesus Pablo – Simple Ideas Work Best

Regular readers will be familiar by now with Liverpudlian producer Jesus Pablo, and with Something Different Records, the label he runs with Di Riviera. This one doesn't come on Something Different though, but rather Scott Harrington's Savoir Faire – another label who TIWWD readers will know by now can always be relied on for some quality deep house grooves.

Which doesn't leave me with huge amounts to explain, really! Except to say that Simple Ideas… lives up to its title, being an almost slo-mo affair based around some simple mournful plucked strings, minimal beats and sparingly-applied synths. Think of the sparse-yet-dense production values of the deepest dubstep à la Youngsta or Distance, apply to deep house and you've got the idea.

Remixes come from Robot Needs Oil, who adds haunting M1 sounds and the merest of vocal fragments, joined later by gentle Balearic-style pianos, while Nick Devon – who so impressed with So Addicted on 3am as recently as last week – adds soulful vocals and a warm b-line.

Robot Needs Oil nudges it out of the remixes for me, but overall I think it's the original that wins out – it's a thing of delicate, fractured beauty.

Out: This week

About: Find Something Different, as ever, on Soundcloud and Facebook.

Jesus Pablo & Sean Danke – Mojo

Our man from Liverpool teams up with Sean Danke from Reykjavik here, for a track coming on Headset Recordings in three mixes.

The Original rides a jaunty, toppy rhythm, over which are layered piano chords, organ stabs, fairly subdued synths and, as the track goes on, some shakers as well – all told it doesn't 'do' huge amounts but it'll get those asses shakin' on the floor mos' def. On remix duties, Robot Needs Oil give us a pass that's scattered with hand percussion throughout and adds some great Hammond organ action – it's proper wiggy, daddio! – while Daniel Allen's rub is more straight-ahead and driving, with a euphoric, building vibe overall and just the tiniest hints of prog around the edges.

From a label and a producer (Pablo) that seldom disappoint, here's a track that most certainly doesn't.

Out: This week

About: Headset Recordings are based in San Francisco, and are not to be confused with Boston's Headtunes, who Mr Pablo has also been known to work with. You can find 'em 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.