S-Groove – Lisbon Sunrise/NYC Haze

This is exactly the kind of thing this blog is for… a great record that just came in too late for inclusion in the house pages of iDJ. And that was last month, so it's certainly too late for this issue… but it's worth talking about all the same.

Forensic Records is always a label worth checking if you dig that kinda borderland between deep house and prog. Their stuff is generally quite dark and druggy and yes, a bit proggy, but also nice and chunky and funky – perfect eyes-wide-shut dancefloor tackle. This is no exception, though I've gotta say I'm feeling the drifty synths of 'Lisbon Sunrise' more than 'NYC Haze', which doesn't quite DO enough for me.

S-Groove, by the way, is a lad from Belfast called Sean Grieves, who had an earlier record also on Forensic called 'Feel Your Soul'. 

About the label: Forensic is run by Scott Bradford, a man I've had the pleasure of dealing with for, ooh, about 14 years now, since the days I edited a Manchester magazine called Metropolis and he was running what was then quite a new (but already quite successful) club night called Shindig. Actually I should stress it's not JUST Scott but he's the chap I deal with, and a very nice bloke he is too! Anyway, visit their website at  http://www.forensicrecords.co.uk/ 

My first blog post (woohoo!) and a little bit about me

Hi, welcome to my new blog This Is Why We Dance.

The blog name is taken from a very, very, VERY good record by Deep House Souldiers. It's one of my all-time faves and if you need any more explaining than that as to what this blog is about, then it's probably not the blog for you.

As a reviewer for - actually Associate Editor of, dontchaknow, but that's not important right now - iDJ magazine here in the UK, I get sent tons of music. Some of which is actually quite good :-) but unfortunately we can only fit about half the good stuff into the magazine pages. Plus I get sent things that don't really fit my iDJ reviews brief: for iDJ I write about house but I also get sent some nice minimal/techno, D&B, cosmic disco etc. So all the good music I get sent that can't fit in iDJ, well, it can find some lurve here.

I also reserve the right to wibble on about older music that I love, moan about the state of the world, and generally prattle on. It's my blog. No-one else has any say over/input into/control over its contents. We're all equal in cyberspace baby, yeah! Or something. You get the idea. Remember, you don't have to read it. But I hope you will.