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.
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