Various – As Heard At ADE

It has been, dear reader, something of a trying day, for reasons I won't bore you with. So gonna keep it to a couple of V/A eps tonight, the first of which is this seven-artist, seven-track sampler from fledgling Dutch label Trick Track Records, who recently hosted their first ADE party.

Trick Track are based in The Hague and describe themselves on Soundcloud as a "deep house/nu-disco/tech-house" label. Which is as good a way as any to describe the overall melting-pot vibe here! William Medagli & Thallulah give us Flavor Does It, a bouncy, bassy tech-house groove that uses big chunks of the Dr Love vocal – big dark rooms beckon, as indeed they do for Nicola Nolli's Mercury, which is in a similar vein but instrumental. Albert Santizzo & Micket Franc's In Zoo Boogie is a deep little chugger sporting an unlikely-sounding fusion of soulful vocal snips and Theremin-type wibbly-wobbly noises, Chris Luzz's Jungle Juice is a sparser,  tribal-inflected workout and, well, there's some more goodness in the form of strong cuts from Lightzoff, Nick Safado feat Andrea Love and Colino.

All told, it's very checkable indeed. So check it!

Out: This week

About:  Something else Trick Track have to say about themselves:

The ideal of Trick Track Records is to generate the future and the past into a unitary sound of electronic music and give the listeners a moment of quiet in the sound, finding themselves wondering with their mind in places never thought of.

I'm not entirely sure what that all means either, but anyway as well as the sound of the cloud you can find 'em on Facebook or at their own website.

ALBUM Various - Future Sleaze Vol 2

Hot on the heels of volume 1, which back in June and which I shamefully never got around to telling you about, here's a second label comp from the mighty Sleazy Deep.

"Bridging the gap between deep house and nu disco," is how Sleazy Deep describe their musical ethos and yeah, that's about the size of it. Kicking off with Adam Banks' So Confused, which with its pitched-down Colonel Abrams vocal and deep, techy East London chug is about as 'now' as it's possible to be, Future Sleaze Vol 2 crams in a whopping 20 tracks from names both familiar (William Medagli, Patrick Podage, label boss Rob Made) and less so (er, everyone else).

I'm not going into all the tracks one-by-one – it'd take all day. But do be assured there's plenty of grist for your dancefloor mill here, with the Prince-ish vocal on Medagli's This Is Amour and Made's Kariya cover/homage Let Me Love You just two of the highlights.

Out: This has been available since September 10 on Beatport, but is only getting a full worldwide release this week

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

William Medagli – Everything I Am Looking For EP

Italian producer William Medagli serves up a four-tracker for Sleazy Deep that blurs the boundaries between deep house and nu-disco.

Shine On Me marries big Carpenter-esque analogue synths with a breathy female vocal reminiscent of mid-90s house, while a remix from label boss Rob Made replaces the busy percussion with more of a no-nonsense nu-disco clap-throb. And lots of scratching sounds, oddly. You also get a rub from Spaghetti Orchestra, who take us deep down into late-night, er, sleazy territory.

Over on the B, Rise Up is a slightly housier affair in its original form, albeit at a pretty sedate pace, again coming with the fem vox and a big phat b-line; again Mr Made remixes, adding some wukka-wukking guitar to bring out da funk. One for those Ibiza warm-up sessions, methinks.

Out: This week, on Beatport and on vinyl. Everywhere else from 2 April.

About: Sleazy Deep is (as I just said, kind of ) the brainchild of Rob Made, AKA Robin Tabor of F*** House Music fame, and can be found online here (website) and here (Soundcloud, where you can HEAR THIS)