M2MR Vinyl & CDs

Review: It's a while since we heard something brand new from Dr Packer, whose specialism in recent years has been breathing new life into disco cuts old and new. 'Get Some Soul' does naturally feature a few samples from old soul and disco cuts, but at its heart the track is a gloriously summery and funky classic house cut laden with squelchy synths, cut-glass strings, mazy organ solos, excellent disco-house drums and tons of additional percussion. Over on the flip, the Cut & Strig Mix takes the track in a more peak-time house direction, with filtered piano-house riffs, rumbling bass and colourful deep house chords catching the ear.

Review: British jazz-funk outfit Freeze will always be best known for their biggest hit 'Southern Freeze' but IOU is not far behind it. Here the legendary disco edit master Dr Packer adds his own version to it on a new series of edits on M2MR. He ups the drums, lasers in some big and raising basslines and generally up the party. On the flip is his take on 'We've Got The Juice' which is a more low slung number with hip swinging claps. Both cuts are pure fire for the floor.