Where You Gonna Go? vinyl

Categorizing the work of beatmaker Paul White has always been difficult. Predictably, "Where You Gonna Go?" - the first single to be taken from his Shaker Notes LP - is similarly hard to define. It's wonderfully haunting and exotic, with Arabic-influenced instrumentation and marimba melodies riding a slack-tuned drum groove, watery electronic noises and drifting vocals. It's a thing of rare beauty, even if it does defy convention. There's more 'hard-to-pigeonhole' fare to be found on "Peace It Together", a Middle Eastern-influenced chunk of enveloping electronic jazz. The package is completed by a superb remix of the title track from Detroit native Andres, whose shuffling, soul-flecked deep house beats and warm Rhodes chords provide the perfect compliment to White's weary scat vocals.

Dirty Channels, Thatmanmonkz (Shadeleaf Music), Toby Tobias, Marcel Vogel, Juno Recommends Deep House, Gavin Boyd (Soul Has No Tempo), Dave Aju, Pete On The Corner