Music Update: February 25th, 2010

Music Update: February 25th, 2010

What a week for music! Our music team has been working overtime stocking the hard drives, so we won't waste your time and we'll get right into it.

* click an image to get an earful of our featured artists and labels...

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The Funk
featured: artist. Chemars / label. Blatt Traxx




After a several year hiatus and landing on some of house music's finest labels including Om, Seasons and Gallery, the production duo of BROADWAY & WILSON make their return on GENE FARRIS' label Farris Wheel with the Stompy exclusive "Good Old Daze LP" without skipping a beat. DIMITRI MAX is the latest artist to land on CHUCK DANIELS' Sampled label, with his EP, "Classic Shit"; Guesthouse adds Tuning Spork's JAY HAZE to its Remix roster, with his rendition of DJ SNEAK's "Getting Crazy in the Ghetto"; currently in the Top 100 with with his release on Sampled, SOUL DE MARIN kicks off his new label, Sniff Your Ear with "Red Edition"; LIL MARK remixes JUSTIN HARRIS' "Pattern Recoginition", as well as dropping an EP of his own "Nonsense" for Justin's Paranoid label; VERNON & DaCOSTA also pull double duty--remixing JAY WEST's "Red Carpet", as well as their "Nightshift" EP for Robsoul; KINKY MOVEMENT's "Radio House" drops on FABIO BACCHINI's Mindtravel label out of Italy; two new releases on Greenhouse--"Do You Feel That" from JEFF SERVICE, and "Keep the Party Dancing" from JMC; JEFF HAZE gets a bit deeper for "Mojo", which also includes a chill, jazzy remix from HIGH MAINTENANCE; LUROB debuts on So Sound with "Lost City Sessions"; and the producer no one can stop talking about, GRAMOPHONEDZIE, turns out an instant bomb with his remix of ARCO's "We Have A Party" for Blockhead.

Staff Picks of the Week for The Funk

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Soul Full
featured: artist. Francois Dubois / label. Loco




For any deep or Soul Full heads that have picked up a record in the past 20 years, you surely know Detroit's ALTON MILLER as one of the legends of House. We welcome Alton and his Inner Muse label with the superb Stompy exclusive "Don't Close Your Eyes" featuring ANGELIQUE on vocals. PHIL ASHER drops the wonderful "Peace Loves Comin" for his Restless Soul Music; KELVIN K's "Ancestral Moon" is the latest EP on JAY TRIPWIRE'S Tonality label, which also includes remixes from GROOVENAUTS and ALLAND BYALLO; GERD's supreme 4lux label release new remixes of KEZ YM's "Sweetly Confused" track from 2008; MIGUEL MIGS taps into the hotbed of Down Under with the signing of Australian NATHAN G's "Melbourne Shuffle" to Salted Music; KAROL XVII & MB VALENCE's past releases for their Loco label have been getting heavily played and charted, and their latest, "Minor Chords 2", is already getting snagged up in droves; JEROME DERRADJI's deep house mainstay Still Music returns with the soul of GERALD MITCHELL's "Strongholds"; JAY-J and MICHELLE SHAPROW's "If I Wanted You", gets the first batch of remixes turned in from HARLEY & MUSCLE, EMIL LANNE and GIOM, who also remixes BANG BANG's "Broken", along with YSE and SEAN SMITH for Lost My Dog ; San Francisco House producers DJ MFR & VINCENT KWOK team up for their NEW MONDO alias and drop "Total Control" for MFR's Transport; and you can't go wrong when you get Soul Full giants HALO, JAMIE THINNES & ROCCO together for "Moon In Taurus" on Halo's Citydeep Music.

Staff Picks of the Week for Soul Full

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Tek
featured: artist. DJ Koze / label. Room with a View




Originally a vinyl-only label as a companion to their Oslo imprint, and always highly sought after for any Moody and Tek aficionados, Love Letters From Oslo is now available on the Download. The first release from Air London, "The Wisdom of Crowds", embodies two of dance music's prime new talents, ROBER DIETZ and BURNSKI; DANIEL STEFANIK offers up a tribute to his own influences with "In Days of Old", three intoxicating untitled tracks on Kann; FLORIAN MEINDL's "Flashmob" features a drilling bassline and hypnotic vocal hook for his Flash label; British Techno institution RUSS GABRIEL offers up 4 proto-acid tech house trips for Poker Flat with "The Bored Hound"; with no special monikers and no fuss, "La Belle De Jour" is the first EP from the new label Gua Camole, an outlet for the live dj'ing project from GF & MK to showcase their no boundaries style of music; flying solo from the Wighnomy Brothers, ROBAG WRUHME drops the twisted "Dreiklangkapriolen" on their Musik Krause label; Switzerland's RIPPERTON drops his beautifully crafted debut album "Niwa" on JORIS VOORN's fledging Green label; after their extremely succesfull first 12" in the beginning of last year which featured the stunning Jay Shepheard remix, THE RUNNERS are ready to deliver the next dose of house grooves that range from deep house to the more techy edge with "Workin My Nerves" on Dirt Crew; both Mothership and Moodmusic each drop massive compilations of past hits with "Phase One" and "Moodmusic Chapter 4"; and we're proud to add the masterful labels of WILL SAUL's Simple and STEFAN RIESEN's Morris Audio. Be sure to add to your Picks for more to come.

Staff Picks of the Week for Tek

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Down-N-Out
featured: artist. Tokyo Black Star / label. Wax On




Downtempo dominates the Down'N Out section this week, beginning with the debut of new Om Records artists ROCKET EMPIRE out of Portland, OR. BLOCKHEAD's album "The Music Scene" on Ninja Tune features 12 tracks of stand-out chill beats, Freestyle also "Gets it Started" with HEALER SELECTA; COULTRAIN drops some downtempo and a bit of soul for "The Wanderer" on Record Breakin Music; party-starters THE DYNAMICS release the new single "La Poupee Qui Fait Non"; LUKE VIBERT, LUKID and BULLION are all included on "The Ghostly Remixes" of OSBORNE; MUSTANG's "Chameleon Circus" is dropped on disco stalwart Gomma; DFA's next hit is BLACK VAN's "Yearning" with an EMPEROR MACHINE remix; and ALL GOOD FUNK ALLIANCE's funky break hit "Sock It To Ya" gets fresh remixes on their Super Hi Fi label.

Staff Picks of the Week for Down-N-Out


Enjoy the Music!
-Stompy Crew

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