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This new volume of Casquiat diesel into the streets of LA and mixes up the raw realities of life and plenty of lyrical and production innovation across mutant rap, hip-hop, breakbeat and dub sounds. 'Mexican Illegals' is a big opener with distorted bass blasts and ice-cold analogue beats with a stylish delivery up top that twists and turns between the drums. 'Fuck Ice (bonus beat)' is menacing and full of swagger with saw tooth synths and infectious syncopation, then 'Pistol Grip Pump' (Casquiat remix) is an early rap sound made freaky with sci-fi production touches and larger than life bars.

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Izaak Schlossman has used the Topdown Dialectic alias to explore some of his most enigmatic and psychedelic territory for the last ten-plus years. The faceless sound experiments hover at the intersection of dub and techno and this superb double album surveys over a decade of work while weaving newly unearthed material from 2013-2016 into the mix of more recent recordings. Its narrative anchor is Schlossman's hazy, open-air live debut in 2025, a performance that blurred past and present for everyone who witnessed it. Beats materialise and dissolve endlessly here with epidermal pads and ghostly lines all layer up into an album that is sparse yet profoundly emotive.

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When Nagamatzu hit pause in 1991, Stephen Jarvis didn't stop; he simply changed the name, pulling Pure Motorised Instinct from a line in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead and pushing the industrial spirit into stranger, more personal territory. At Last I'm Leaving the Earth collects nine tracks from the two cassette albums that followed and presses them to wax for the first time, together with a trio of bonus tracks. Operating somewhere between ominous and moody and more hopeful, and between the intense and the more sleepy claustrophobic, Jarvis's digital synths become dusty, aged affairs with plenty of processing and reverb-drenched drums, giving an infinite quality to the low ends. From vapourwave to ambient to escapist soundscaping, this is a mental movie of the highest order.

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Mark Funk and Danny Cruz's Cruise Music label continues to offer-up the best of its digital-first EPs via the popular Vinyl Jams sampler series. There's a real sun-splashed, dancing-on-the-terrace feel to much of the music contained on this 14th volume in the series. Mark Funk steps up first with the loopy, filter-rich disco-house release of 'Never Never', which rises and falls in all the right places in search of hands-aloft action, before Makito drops the vibraphone solo-laden deep house-meets-garage-house flex of 'Heavy Vibes' (think Masters at Work collaborating with Roy Ayers and you're close), Over on side B, Danny Cruz serves up 'Sugar', a tooled-up, house-style re-edit of a joyous disco gem, while Filth & Smell's 'Panama Sweet Spot' is an electric piano and sax-loop-fired slab of thickset house funkiness.

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Born 2 Be Free label head Azaad has been kicking out his twist on UKG for a few years now, and in that same time he has also been beavering away on his debut album. Ahead of that drop, he teases us with a sampler from it that covers plenty of ground. 'Isthisluv (feat Elias Mazian)' is a deep one with an expansive comic backdrop and cool grooves. 'Dubble Lively' is more tightly coupled and punchy, kick-driven garage house, then he remixes 'Lost Worlds' into something dubby but kicking. Two B-side cuts roll deep with deft sampling. Bring on the album!

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Coming in extra bloody hot is the sixth release on Disco Combine, harvested from the fields of musical gold by Mr. Dave Lee. First up the epic 'Lovin' You (Was My Mistake)' a throaty Philly-soul favourite which has been lovingly re-worked into a beefy peak time floor filler. For those who prefer a more dubwise approach, the 'Joanna's Groove' version starts instrumentally with rippling piano, building into a big string finale. On the flip 'How I Love New York' swaggers into your ears with all the class, style and panache you would expect from a jazz-fusion connoisseur living in the big Apple. Don't miss heading to the 'Midtown Dub' if you like things more squelchy and funktified.

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Pariter is the tasteful and tasty archival imprint from Sushitech and the good news for house heads is that it's back with a second reissue spotlighting three foundational names from London's early tech house scene. David Coker, Timmy S and Justin Bailey all appear as one creative force and the A-side is a deep, bass driven house groove with steam vocal samples then the flip delivers a more roomy and less locked in groove that is suited to the looser hours with subtle acid lines drifting in and out. Original pressings are now near-impossible to find in decent condition so don't sleep on another fine reissue.

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Real soul heads won't need to be told that this is a reissue which stands tall over most: Lozano is a classic, much sought after and now hard to find record by young Puerto Ricans and Cubans in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx. It's the only album credited to the group and it's rich in funky arrangements and clean falsetto vocals. There are slower, more heart-aching laments like 'Loving You' next to sparkling confessionals about a moribund relationship ('Free Girl') and more empowering, upbeat grooves like 'Can't Get You Off Of My Mind' that capture the excitement of falling in love all over again. It's a wonderful rollercoaster of emotions that come with teenage romance and will have you nostalgic for those innocent times.

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The Saint Wax label branches out with a new series of edits from founder Eduardo Barbi aka Gledd, who traverses funk, disco and soul across five irresistible cuts. 'Street Preacher' has a spoken word that reminds of early rap days paired with a rousing choral backing, then 'Stevie's Word' turns up the funk with a chunky bassline. 'Do It For Me' is another gospel-fuelled pumper with big stabs ramping up the intensity and then 'Under The Moonlight' is a classy disco stomper lead by florid and chunky funk in the drums. 'Your Love' is an excitable finish with big horns, bigger chords and even bigger vocals. It's big, basically.

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Best known as the DJ for multi-platinum band Sugar Ray, American DJ, musician, rapper, singer, record producer and radio personality Craig Anthony Bullock aka DJ Homicide_ has been active for more than three decades. His solo work finds him flipping a wide range of source sounds into his own fat, club-ready joints, all informed by years of working various crowds into party mode. He opens here with 'Se Acado Fl', and brings a light touch to heavy beats that are overlaid with impassioned Spanish vocals that add a florid edge next to the excitable horns. On the backside is Big Syphe'd 'Our Generation Flip' which is soul music welded to a low slung and dusty hip-hop foundation.

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Old school and new school collide here as Mixmode Recordings boss and longtime deep house servant Delano Smith joins contemporary trailblazer Ash Lauryn on a seductive and smoky new single. Lauryn contributes a spoken word vocal that has her whispering into the mic with alluring late night intimacy as classic drums roll beneath dusty chords. Atlanta mainstay Kai Alce then brings his signature bounce and swing to a remix that has brighter chord work. On the flip is the meditative 'Let The Rhythm' with its swirling chords and subtle Detroit touches with another entrancing and conscious spoken word from Lauryn finishing it with style.

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Born 2 Be Free celebrates the naughtier end of the house and garage spectrum with a first volume in this new Low End Guerrillas series. Mista Men's 'Corner' has muggy blasts of bass that cocoon you in warmth as lively garage drums and nimble synth motifs keep things fresh. Mella Dee brings his usual sonic filth to the rugged analogue grind of 'A Way Of Life'. No Brainers then layer up a bubbly mix of top and hits over driving bass notes on 'Not Again', then Lvpica's 'Funky:Mission' keeps it deep and moody with a shadowy bassline and slick drums for cool cats. Live From The Moon shuts down with the more eerie and suspenseful 'Parrot In The Studio.' Characterful tools from font to back.

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