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Review: Hardt Antoine is back on Reculture with a second superb EP that has been rather delayed due to the pandemic. He opens up with a tune that reflects the nature of the year of lockdowns - deep and rolling, tinged with sadness, not in a hurry to go anywhere and stuffed with a sense of self longing for something, anything. 'Are You There' picks up with a more propulsive track that has elements of cold wave's chilly synths, metallic percussion and a motorik kick that never lets up. It's the sort of elevating, tense, trance-including tune that will take any set from one level to the next.

Review: Stepping through the double doors of Rhythm Plate HQ comes Yse Saint Laur'ant, offering up more of that silky disco tackle to get your people swooning hard to. 'One True Light' is pure luxury - the easiest of beats to ride with all the funk where it counts, and a sweet nocturnal mood up top to keep the atmosphere sultry. 'Language Of The Heart' hits a more poignant tone, both musically and lyrically, and why ever not? 'Warm Wind Brewing' leans in on a subtly nasty groove and masks it with illustrious, swooping strings that sound like they floated in from an early Hollywood epic. 'Sit On The Groove' drops the pace and lets the soul pour out, and 'Can't Make It Without You' actually delivers a 'weepy' to close out this powerfully emotional record.

Review: E Da Boss (Myron & E/Pendletons) & Ishtar team up as 'Lucid Paradise' for their second release, produced by non other than Russia's finest, 'The Soul Surfers'. 'Tonight' is the accumulation of two Bay Area soul aficianados coming together to create a smooth & crisp, timeless yet modern cut. Written alongside UK's pioneering soul singer Gizelle Smith, 'Tonight' epitomises the talent of contemporary soul acts worldwide.

Review: Athens of the North 'house band' East Coast Love Affair recently returned to action with 'I'm So Glad', a driving disco-funk outing tailor-made for sweaty club sessions. For this speedy follow-up, they've recruited effortlessly soulful vocalist Theo Suess and musically flipped the script. Built around skittish lo-fi beats, immersive chords and bubbly synth-bass, 'Tonight' sits somewhere between deliciously deep house and lo-fi boogie. It's genuinely brilliant, with Suess providing an immaculately emotive lead vocal on the A-side main mix. The flip-side 'Dub' is superb, too, with snippets of Suess's vocals echoing across an enveloping, loved-up instrumental backing track.