Herve Knows Night Turns Into Day

The third single from Hervé’s acclaimed debut album, Pick Me Up, Sort Me Out, Calm Me Down, comes in the shape of the club thumping Night Turns Into Day, featuring the vocal charms of Lottie Tricity.

Hervé, under his various guises, has built a reputation on club anthems and the title track is no exception, with blistering bass, pounding kicks and big room keys all coming to the fore. All this power is complimented perfectly by the subtle vocal musings of Lottie, who lifts the track into slightly more pop territory, without loosing any of its club bite.

Download: Night Turns Into Day (Mighty Mouse Remix)
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Lancelot...Knight of the Round Table

LANCELOT is the new project from 21 year‐old Sydney producer Lance Gurisik.

Formerly recording as AEONS, in 2011 Lance dropped the drums, kicked aside the USB keyboards and embedded himself in the studio to create his own dense style of house music.

With a fetish for analogue gear, Lance draws upon his broad knowledge of classical music styles and forms while recording and writing for dance floors – the result sitting somewhere between new‐wave pop and downtempo, tropical house.  I'm happy to report there's not a dub or step in sight and it's fucking marvelous.

For the past 3 years Lance has been composing orchestral music, studying at the elite Sydney Conservatory of Music.

After hours, Lance snuck into the faculty recording studios, laying down a swathe of well‐regarded, official remixes for artists including New Navy (Future Classic), Toucan, Fabian (Binary), Penguin Prison, Sparkadia (Ivy League), Faker (EMI), Tim and Jean (Universal) and Fallulah (Sony DE). This winter he recorded three original tunes for the upcoming We Can Dance EP.

Now, with a freshly framed graduation certificate and sharp new hair‐cut to boot, LANCELOT is plunging straight into the club.

LANCELOT’s We Can Dance EP is set for digital‐release worldwide on LA‐based label Binary (Fabian,
Keenhouse, Nightwaves) on Beatport on February 20th, followed by a worldwide release on March 5th.

Download: Spoken Word
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2 Bears Head To Work

2 Bears are a London production duo made up of Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and Raf Daddy.  These two odd dudes have thrown on a couple of bear suits, dug out all their favorite 80's and 90's Chicago house records and made one heck of a tribute to it on their new album Be Strong.

An album laden with incessant mind numbingly sexy grooves, Be Strong harks back to the days when dancing was fun and when dance music was about energy and movement not excessive noise and wobble. While influenced by the Chicago and New York scenes, the album is most definitely rooted in the London underground scene and you can tell. Ridiculously deep at times and so upfront at others this is a record that weaves and bobs around sub genres faster than an Intercity 125. Garage, electro, piano house, disco house, deep house, it's all here and represented so well that you can't help but throw your hands up in the air and just move.

In addition to the ridiculously addictive grooves that are so persistent the album works because the 2 Bears are able to write instantly memorable lyrics that pump along to the rhythm and drill themselves into your subconscious. Even at their deepest and most chilled moments Be Strong remains, um, strong. Pretty much the party album of 2012 thus far, the 2 Bears have brought proper house, electro, and garage back and pumped it up a few notches. This record is so flawless and so filled with banger after banger that it couldn't not fill a dancefloor if it tried. Essential.

Download: Work (St. Etienne Remix)
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Everything's Golden

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Golden (David Adusei) was brought up in a Ghanaian household with a lot of pop, R&B and native West African music being played. He moved to Raleigh, NC at the age of 10 and took guitar lessons.

After 2 years of lessons, he started experimenting with sequencer programs and voice manipulation. Shortly after, he started writing lyrics and singing. Now living in Wilmington, NC, he attends University of North Carolina. He started deejaying house parties and getting into more different forms of dance music. He deejays regularly in Wilmington and a few parties along the East Coast.

He's been inspired by a lot of dance producers and bands that he's discovered. Adusei also takes his inspirations from R&B, disco, African funk, and soul music. He continues to focus on music and develop his sound to draw a stronger connection with listeners.

Golden's Desirée EP is out now!

Download: Destinee
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HeavyFeet Know All I Want

All I Want is the latest track from HeavyFeet's 12x12 project and sees them returning to their renown club sound, which will be their focal point for 2011 from here on in...

All I Want fuses HeavyFeet's love for Chicago house music, jumpy beats and skippy synth stabs, with their trademark big bass and melodies, topping it off with a looped up classic dance vocal you'll know only too well.

“We’ll be blogging about the process we went through to create the '12x12' project, month by month, over
at heavyfeetmusic.com, as we want other artists to engage with creative collaboration, as it's such a great  way to push yourself musically/in the studio.”

While you're doing that you can check out All I Want below.

Download: All I Want
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Their Name Is B.R.U.C.E.

Amsterdam's Magnetron, home of Le Le and Rimer London, keep literally banging out the hits and with an increasingly impressive stable and slew of amazing tunes it doesn't look like they'll be slowing down anytime soon. With a new sub label, Instant Replay, being launched the label has released/leaked their first release from B.R.U.C.E. entitled, The Wallet.

B.R.U.C.E.'s (Billionaire - Rambunctious - Under - Circumstances - Extraordinaire) tune to excess, mindlessness and cash money is like Green Velvet if he were possessed. Bangin' it's way through beats like a maniac and vocals that sound like the devil himself, the tune is a dark disco destroyer. It's blindingly brilliant for it's creating something so simple but hypnotically groovy. Awesome stuff then.

Throw in a couple of remixes and you have a single destined for great things. The Souljack Remix (below) is a deep jacking analog remix by Tom Trago, who has become a rapidly rising star on the deeper end of house. His album Voyage Direct on Rush Hour (released last year) has put him on the map as a producer to reckoned with.

Download: The Wallet (Original)
Download: The Wallet (Tom Trago's Souljack Remix)