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The Outer Reaches

One of my all time favourite labels is Outer Rhythm which I believe was owned by Neil Barnes (one half of Leftfield) and operated between 89-92.

House music made with a dub mentality is the best way I can describe it.

Here are five, perfectly frozen in time…

Black In The East

Thanks to everyone who came down to ‘The Social’, had a ball playing that room on a Condesa. Below are 5 plucked from my bag.

Dexterity

Pretty sure I first discovered Dutch electro powerhouser Remy Verheijen via a Jockey Slut cover mount cd about 16 years ago.

I then went on the hunt for the 12″ of “I Don’t Care”, love at first sound as I’ve been into his music ever since.

Here’s five I like to play a lot…

Dutch Disco Don

Loud-E is the kind of DJ if you were lucky enough to hear, would have you running up to the booth for endless id requests until you gave up asking and just danced. When not trawling through record shops, flea markets and damp basements, he sometimes puts out rather excellent edits aimed at the more open minded disco DJ.
5 below.

 

In The Zone

Amazing house music has exactly the right amount of elements, enough left in and equally important, adequte amounts stripped out. Therefore these records remain perfectly frozen in time. Record labels like Nu Groove, DJ Pierre’s Wild Pitch sound and early Todd Terry productions spring to mind and when David Morales puts the big diva stylings to the side and goes deep, dubby and late night, he nails that red light, sweat drenched basement vibe.

The Red Zone is for life!

Mond Musik

Alexander Arpeggio doing the hard work so you don’t have to – re-releasing obscure and killer private press nuggets.

Drop The Lime & Embrace The Cursed

One part psychobilly, one part techno, one part shoegazer pop.

If The Jesus & Mary Chain, Joy Division & The Meteors had colaborated and Moroder & Rushent had shared production duties, it may well have sounded like this…

Berlin Super 80

As Berlin knows no closing time new arrivals were initially struck by the city’s excessive nightlife. A diverse club and bar scene emerged. To this end, we became nocturnal creatures: dressed in black, cool, pale, untouchable. Naturally , this draining lifestyle called for the right ‘helpers’, especially speed.
Berliners firmly believed: newcomers who managed to stick out their first six months would stay, all others would quietly slip away again.
This is what they danced to…

Ron

One man who has been a consistent force in house & techno for decades is Chicago’s Ron Maney aka DJ Skull. His understanding of groove and rhythm is second to none imo and I love the way he can flit between peak time drum machine techno, deeper synth based jams or disco & jazz flecked house.

If you didn’t already know, five below to get you started…