Brawther / Bengoa / Lex / Locke / Zaq - 5 Years Of B2 RecordingsNo prizes for guessing the motivation behind this new EP, 5 Years Of B2 Recordings. It is a tidy and tasteful celebration of half a decade of top quality deep house from a range of key players. This one opens with Frenchman Brawther getting dubbed out and deep as ever with some nice lounge chords and blissed out pads. Bengoa's 'Neftina Dub' has a subtle US garage shuffle to it that harks back to the 90s and Lex & Locke then bring rich paint chords and

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Storming the gates of Chicago’s premier recording studios

in cahoots with fellow Canadian icon Big Zen

Topper considered asking his ‘Felbm Five’ band members to play on the recordings

I wanted to explore what the natural environment means personally

and sees this multi-talented musician produce a delightfully vibrant body of werk

Wagwan Jamaica

his sole single ‘late Night Flyer

One of any self-respecting dub LP collectors' holy grails

Azumah was the coming together of a group of talented young dancer-musicians from Soweto (South Africa) with musician and instrument-maker Smiles Mandla Makama of eSwatini (formerly Swaziland)

Enhanced even further by the dazzling string and horn sections and those choice group harmonies

Marrying Eugene Record’s falsetto alongside Creadel "Red" Jones' animated bass tones it screams flash