Dirt Crew Germany レコード& CD

Review: Ben La Desh shows off his elegant take on deep house on the Dirt Crew label here with five well appointed tunes. 'Heel Goed' has loopy, subtle broken beat loops taking you on a trip through the cosmos next to swirling pads and daubs of colour. 'Lift Adrift' is a gorgeous tune laced with ambient beauty and 'Fine Rise' is warm, comforting and inviting. The drums are paced and the pads are spaced out. There is some meticulous drum programming to 'Asanti' that again heads off up amongst the stars and 'Expanding Signal is a perfect back room sound for cosy and intimate dancefloors.

Review: Astonishingly, nine years have now passed since Scottish house hero The Revenge delivered his first EP of Roar Groove label style workouts on German imprint Dirt Crew Recordings. Volume five, the first for some time, is typically packed with playable fare in his hypnotic, analogue-rich style. Across four tracks, he sashays confidently between dirty, bass-heavy and angular headiness (moody opener 'Twisted Signal'), bleeping early morning deep house hedonism ('Spiral Highway', whose power partly derives from his mastery of subtle changes within the mix), sparkling and synth-laden rollers (the simply gorgeous 'Open Your Eyes', which recalls some of his fantastic singles of the late 2000s) and deep, dubby and hazy box jams (the locked-in wonder that is 'Your Life').