Planet E US Vinyl & CDs

Review: Last year Stacey Pullen delivered the debut mix in the "Detroit Love" series, offering up a set that channeled "the spirit of the Motor City". 12 months on, label boss Carl Craig offers up the follow-up, delivering a two-disc set that flits between original Detroit jams and tracks by those who draw influence from the city's deep electronic music heritage. It's an interesting journey, with the Planet E founder devoting the first disc to bold, warehouse-friendly variants of chunky house music (think Waajeed, Claude Von Stoke, Delano Smith and Floorplan remixing Sophie Lloyd). It's the second disc, though, that showcases Craig at his very best. Here the veteran producer charges through quality techno cuts from the likes of Ataxia, Brain, Ectomorph and British scene stalwart Mr G.