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Review: Long-serving Italian deep house producer Enrico Mantini has been in the game for a long time, first dropping bombs back in the early 90s, but his career has enjoyed a powerful second wind in the past few years with appearances on Half Baked, 4 Lux and more besides. Having released the Inner Heights EP on PURISM earlier in 2017, Mantini returns with an album of immersive, tripped out grooves supposedly recorded live at Tresor in Berlin. The vibe is consistently deep, refined and just a little bit trippy for the minimal house crowd to go head first into.

Review: Italian legend Enrico Mantini returns, this time for Gua Limited for the Many Years EP. The Pescara native serves up three cuts of trippy deep house that are quite worthy of your attention: this guy has been producing for 25 years under aliases such as Transitive Elements, The Fast Runna and Deep Choice so you're in good hands. Take for instance the tough swing and shuffle of opening groove "Did Wanna Talk" which uses that MPC to its full potential. The deep hypnotism of the title track gets some basic trance induction happening much in the same vein as Baby Ford while "Waves Of Madness" gets back to the stripped back rhythmicity again in great style, beneath a mind altering dialogue dealing in amnesia, electro compulsive therapy and all other kinds of psychiatric delights!

Review: Minimal house heroes Verrina & Ventura aka Howl Ensemble return, with the twelfth edition of their eponymous imprint and they are joined by some current Italian scene favourites. The boss duo step up first to represent, on the deep and rolling hypnotism of "Howl012.1" (the rest of the track titles follow in suit) followed by a funky, dusty deep house jam by Bologna's Nudge - which will appeal to fans of the Robsoul sound. On the flip, Brindisi's 616 follows up a great release on Manitou last year with his offering; an infectious, swing-fuelled tech house tool in the vein of iO Mulen or Jack Wickham. Finally, be prepared for some classic rave unearthed on the euphoric and uplifting "Howl012.4" by the legendary Enrico Mantini - most likely dug up out of his extensive archives.

Review: Portugal's Assemble Music return with more carefully curated house music - this time courtesy of Italian veteran Enrico Mantini. For those who don't know, Mantini is internationally renowned as one of the founders of the deep house sound. Making his debut in the music industry nearly three decades ago, he's since appeared on cult labels such as UMM and Smoothsounds, runs the wicked Veniceberg Records and these days is an acclaimed mastering engineer. Originally released in 1995, the Hypnotizer EP gets a worthy reissue here and it still sounds as good as it did 23 years ago, we must say. From the old school swing of the Virtual Hypnosis mix, through to the deep and sexy late night mood lighting on the Nostalgic All track - don't sleep on this highly sought after classic.

Review: Four smacking deep house cuts from Enrico Mantini, whose nostalgia-tinged glasses are cast all the way back to 1992, when the bulk of his 'unreleased gems' were produced. All set to tape and nearly forgotten, the vibe of these bits is unparalleled, recalling the rough n' readiness of our two favourite Todds, Terry and Edwards. 'U Feel It' waterfalls through resampled soul sample cut-ups, while 'Loca' continues to bubble outwards via a restrained organ and 808 hue. Sexy, Mr. Fingery styled basses ensue on the cloudier 'Life Wine', while 'Can't Take' closes on dubbier and grottier territories.