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Exclusive Review: Anthony Acid – Infatuation

Exclusive Review: Anthony Acid - InfatuationArtist: Anthony Acid
Title: Infatuation
Label: subliminal
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: none
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New Jersey’s Subliminal has been really knocking out the competition in the house circuit with their latest string of releases, and Anthony’s is no exception. “Infatuation” will give you just that very feeling with it’s thunderous, funky bassdrum arrangement and cycling psychedelic pads made for big room engagements and arenas. The featured female singer hypnotizes you with her pretty luminescence as she swims in and out of the electronic chords, giving you her views of the obsessive subject at hand. Flip the wax for a tribal sauna excursion to loosen up your sore muscles.

Exclusive Review: John Larner & Slater Hogan – Movin

Exclusive Review: John Larner & Slater Hogan - MovinArtist: John Larner & Slater Hogan
Title: Movin
Label: Odds and Ends
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: January 11, 2005
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Funky, chunky house is well orchestrated here by Larner & Hogan, who have appeared on a multitude of labels such as Mouthful, Hip Therapy and Aroma. The original mix gives you a funky deep bassline that echoes throughout your body with a grinning good vocal sample breakdown, reminiscing of disco funk days of past. Q-Burns Abstract Message remixes it into an interesting analog dub, but Juan Zapata (of East Coast Boogiemen) and his brother Hugo rock the house with their monster funk, stompy dub mix that screams peaktime, deep house bliss.

Exclusive Review: Pair Of Jacks – Internasstional

Exclusive Review: Pair Of Jacks - InternasstionalArtist: Pair Of Jacks
Title: Internasstional
Label: A-Squared
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 09/17/2004
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The California crew of Jacks is back on A-Squared and better than ever! Angel and Rees storm the sound systems with confident comfort as they carve this ostrich-sized statement into a full-fledged dancefloor roast, loading a brainwashing guitar riff over a funky basslined beat and filtering a motivating sample in and out of the mix. Joshua Collins reworks the cut into an outstanding woofer-trembling monster with layers of deep and rolling bass kicks and wide-grinning edits that is guaranteed to entice anyone in the room, having them in a sick dancing frenzy in no time.n

Exclusive Review: Phillipe B. and Antoine C. – Moved On You

Exclusive Review: Phillipe B. and Antoine C. - Moved On YouArtist: Phillipe B. and Antoine C.
Title: Moved On You
Label: Electron
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 04/27/2004
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These two fierce French producers do enough damage on their own, but they decided to sadistically bring their floorfilling finesse together and present you the new jump off. The title track is comprised of a chunky Moroder-styled bassline mixed with Yaz’s Don’t Go lyrics, intensified with tweaked effects and background synth lines. The more you play the song, the more it tampers with the crowd’s legal adrenaline levels and clones the smiles across the floor. It’s proof that Antoine and Philippe keep up their usual naughty nocturnal antics.

Exclusive Review: Mantese – The Text (Remixes)

Exclusive Review: Mantese - The Text (Remixes)Artist: Mantese
Title: The Text (Remixes)
Label: Texture
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 04/01/2004
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Chicago’s great funk knight CZR adds his Midas touch to Mantese’s (aka Rob Chetcuti/Tuesday’s Child) already amazing track. The Re-Edit takes the original cut, which a jazzy, choppy edit summer breeze of a song, and subtly spices it up with his own audio herbs. The most noticeable difference on this release is the CZR Remix, which transforms the beat from Mantese’s 4/4 kick to a Plump DJ’s-like breakbeat stomp, ensuring the highest energy levels from your crowd.

Exclusive Review: High Caliber – Illegally Download This Album

Exclusive Review: High Caliber - Illegally Download This AlbumArtist: High Caliber
Title: Illegally Download This Album
Label: Olive
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 04/30/2004
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Electro-disco bullfighters of Chicago Bryan Jones and Mike Gillenwater bring you their latest cutting edge entertainment in the form of a double-pack LP. Every track has explosive attention potential and deserves to be exposed to the frantic human cattle on the dancefloor. From the sexy saxes on Big Worm and the groovy retro seducer All Yours, to the bleepy synth syncopation on Shakedown and the peak hour workouts of Party Rocker and The Jam, High Caliber provide fuming hot fidelity for your funky ass. With a total of eight ergonomic exercises over two plates of wax, you’re positive to populate your party with npizzazz.

Exclusive Review: DJ Louca & Funk Foundation – What Is Funk

Exclusive Review: DJ Louca & Funk Foundation - What Is FunkArtist: DJ Louca & Funk Foundation
Title: What Is Funk
Label: Executive
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 09/08/2004
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Originally released on Trusted Recordings from the UK, DJ Louca and the trusty Funk Foundation go buck wild on the crowd with a Trojan Horse of absolute energy that begs to be detonated upon the biggest crowds for peaktime pleasure. The looping guitar riffs, clever tribal touches, diced up vocal and powerful kick are just a few of the magnificent strategies to mention. Multiply the energy of Antek’s Impakt and Autofunk’s Someday and you’ll have a damn good idea of how flammable this baby is.

Exclusive Review: Shutterflooders VS Mike Balance – Funky Chunky

Exclusive Review: shutterflooders VS Mike Balance - Funky ChunkyArtist: shutterflooders VS Mike Balance
Title: Funky Chunky
Label: Focused Music
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 07/16/2004
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Christoph Banning and Nelson Perez are back with a big-time bang as they split this slab of licorice pizza with Idaho’s music magician Mike Balance. Filtered house reigns supreme on this new Shutterflooders release that will smoke one too many warehouses with sweat and steam. Funky Chunky tweaks a cool loop to thick edible bites endlessly, while Mike’s B-side claims the trophy for back-bending bionic grooviness that’s continuing to prove effective on lab monkeys and grungy mallrats, long after the clubs have closed.