Review: The Stamp label is up to its 18th outing here and once again it is an irresistible coming together of club-ready grooves with well-chosen and well-worked samples. First up the essence of one of George Benson's most iconic cuts gets reworked into a smooth house beat with the guitar kicks, vocal inflections, claps and melodies all getting you up on your toes on 'Night' (dub). 'New York To Rio' then brings some dusty deep house grooves and impassioned vocals for a more upbeat kinda party. Hand-stamped white label business this, so do not hang about.
Review: Stamp glides up to a 15th release with the ever-present Ben Gomori the man responsible. The former writer has done it all in his time from playful edits to big house to here, dazzling disco. 'DM Slide' is a classic-sounding cut with busy basslines and silky arps, nice tinny percussion and a glorious vocal that soars way up top. That takes up the a-side while the flip is a dub version that ups the disco energy and removes the vocals so that the cosmic fx are more front and centre. A useful 12" so far.
Review: As is common in the world of re-edits, Raven Daze is not actually a new artist, but a fresh alias for a "stalwart of the London scene". We, of course, have no idea who it is, though we have our suspicions (as will anyone of a certain vintage who remembers another Raven-based pseudonym responsible for a number of crossover club hits). Either way, A-side 'Ring My Bell' is a tooled-up, filter-enhanced disco-house re-edit of the much-loved disco classic of the same name. It probably didn't need doing, but it will undoubtedly do the business on dancefloors. Over on the flip, we get an instrumental version of the artist's 2024 single on 3Beat, 'Feeling About You', a bouncy, musical detailed slab of turn-of-the-80s Ghanaian disco sampling brilliance.
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