My top tunes of 2017 is like 80 percent stuff from this and adjacent tech house labels
1 - Mirko Di Florio - Coco Club - Stone cold tech house banger, gangster, rude, chunky - played it out a whole bunch and seen it mash up a rave or 6 which always makes a tune special in my eyes.
2 - Phil Weeks - She Can't Love You - Okay, so it was released in December 2016, STILL. Warm and emotional in an incredibly generous way, slinky drums, groovy drums and that treacly sweet vocal - love it!
3 - Lee Foss ft Anjulie - Green Light - I guess I'm just a softy at heart. Bit of an unknown, underrated gem this one. Poppy, euphoric, glittering and spangly - a classic cut of house music.
4 - Caal & Baum - Downtown Beat - I unexpectedly ended up seeing my music hero Dennis Ferrer DJing at a kind of cheesy hotel in Mykonos this summer. This was the tune he was running when I arrived. Ravey carnival tech - what's not to like?
5 - KG3 - Amnesty - From House Not House Records 17th release and 2nd EP of the year, this is dungeon dark, hardcore deep tech dirt at its finest and I'm proud we got to release it.
Joint 6 - Mele - Latin Track / Chi Town / Sun Showers - Okay massively cheating, but Mele smashed it out the park this year with amazing rave ready rhythm tracks that combine tribal and techy and make it sound like the most natural and fun thing in the universe. banger banger banger.
7 - J Sono - Darkness - A darkside intergalactic space opera from the artist formerly known as Digital Danger. From HNH018, our latest release, Darkness combines a hair raising, lighters-in-the-air build and drop that harks back to '93 era darkcore jungle using very 2017 sound design. Not for the feint hearted.
8 - Hector Couto - Mr Magic - Spangly clean yet raw at the same time, with a vibe and soundpallet straight out of 80s electro, just a big stomping roller - perfect.
9 - Mr P - Dancing In The Sun - XXXclusive bit from HNH regular Mr P, forthcoming on the label in 2018. Bit of a new direction for P, coming in groovier than his usual dirt - but it still maintains that cheeky bounce and swing that define the Mr P sound.
Joint 10 - DJ Swagger - Lost / Mood J - Turn Your Love Around
Lost - Melancholic vibes and 90s house horns - that's the Lo-fi shit I do like.
Turn Your Love Around - The euphoria to Lost's melancholy, quirky and uplifting, seriously feel good.
Other tracks wot I loved this year
Techy:
Larry Heard - The Sun Can’t Compare
Batenko - Amnesia
Ki Creighton, Makanan - Trivial
Kreature - Access
Detlef, Ossegg James - Swagon
Demarzo - Hang Man
Sooney - Back To The Music (Route 94 Remix)
Mark Jenkins - Peanut Butter
Creative Mind - You’re
Theo Nasa - London Sound Bwoy Killer
Leftwing & Kody - Sound Boy
Max Chapman- La Fiesta
Hugo Massien - Vital Signs
Eli Brown - Hysteria
Richy Ahmed - Come With Us
Detlef - JayDee
Ed Mason - Circles
Denney - Back To Basics
Deep/Lo-fi:
Mall Grab - Catching Feelings
Ross From Friends - Talk To Me You’ll Understand
Daniel Brooks - Make U Feel GD
Old shit wot I discovered and loved this year:
Moodyman
Herbert
Murk Records
The Robsoul back catalog (especially Reda Dare and Arturo Garces)
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Re the tags for this thread. I mean lol fine they're funny, but I find it weird that someone would go out there way to write a bunch of sarcastic shit about me? Like I love this music and work really hard to support it and run a record label which releases this music and very occasionally make posts letting people known that we have some new music out which they might like? Guess that does make me a massive cunt?