Best Of 2021 vinyl

It's been just over a year since East London party crew The Disco Express launched their offshoot label, so to celebrate they've decided to deliver a jam-packed EP featuring some of the imprint's musical highlights to date, none of which have appeared on vinyl before. Check first Tuesday Brunch's slick, summery opener 'Satin Lovers', where eyes-closed R&B style vocals and jazz guitar licks ride a shuffling deep house groove, before turning your attention to Monsieur Von Pratt's heavyweight disco-funk edit, 'Funk Force'. Elsewhere, Campbell Pirret's 'Only You' is a filter-sporting, piano-heavy disco-house worokout, Parisian Soul's 'Another Man (vinyl mix)' is a warming fusion of '70s soul and Rhodes-heavy soulful house, and Pete Maxey's 'For The Love of Music' sits somewhere between colourful nu-disco and bass-heavy deep house.