ALEX AGORE 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: All that jelly and no toast - like when you find a bomb tune that's unavailable on 12". The new sublabel of Smile for a While is exactly about this. Clubby House Music by well-established producers as well as from lesser-known guys. French guy Alex Agore opens the EP with the Lowtone remix of "What Did I Do" - cut-up Garage House to the maxx. Max Chapman from London delivers another belter; a bassline-driven organ House tune with a minimalistic but very effective set-up. Oleg Poliakov - aka SKAT and one of the guys behind Circus Company - comes up with a sublime but powerful Tech House tune, in the original sense of the genre name. "Jazzve" is a tune by Russian producer Mutenoise. It's maybe the most original, innovative tune on this EP. Full of surprises and cutting-edge elements - hard to compare to anything else around these days.

Review: Brooklyn's Cortelyou Recordings claims to be on a mission to release great house from around the world, be it from Detroit, Chicago, Berlin, Johannesburg or London. On The Corner Volume One, can be seen as a mission statement then. It features four varied cuts, each exploring a different area of house, from four different producers. James Duncan kicks things off with a bumpin', old skool piano number, before Alex Agore goes chunky and lo-slung on the hip-house influenced "Pimp Stomp". Nottingham's Red Rack'em weighs in with the ultra-deep "Fellini" (Italo art house anyone?), before Native Sound go all strange and druggy on the afterhours flavoured "Into Tha Ethaa". Impressive stuff.