December Tech & House Top 10

Something is in the air with the resurgence of progressive sounds. Spooky, the original prog legends from the early 1990s return with a dope remix of rising Russian talent Denis A on his own DAR imprint. Agoria is set to drop his new album early next year and 'Speechless', a collaboration with Carl Craig, sounds like an A-class listen already. On a more manic percussive tip is the Rissa Garcia remix of Freddy Parisi & Marco Soave.

Rob's December House and Techno (via Wikileaks)
1. Denis A - Beholder (Spooky Remix) (DAR)
2. Agoria ft Carl Craig - Speechless (InFiné Records)
3. Estroe - Re-Chord (Ludovic Vendi Remix) (Snejl Recordings)
4. Freddy Parisi & Marco Soave - Don't You Moving (Rissa Garcia Movin Dub Mix) (NightChild)
5. Disco Deciders - Secret System (Lemon Popsicle FSOB Remix) (Ready Mix Records)
6. Viana & Miguel Garji - The Black Mountain (Original Mix) (Seamless)
7. DkA - Verticalité (Ecco Remix) (03 Records)
8. Norton White & Select - Home Sweet Home (Thomas Sari Remix) (03 Records)
9. Berny & Guru - Will You Be Mine (Open Bar)
10. Ryan Van Blanken - Untitled Render (Saytek Remix) (Elektek Recordings)

Classic Pic: Watergate - Lonely Winter (Deep Dish Records, 1994)
Super early Deep Dish making jammy, jazz-inspired house. Sharam's Blue Dub is one of the coolest moments in Deep Dish's long history.

House & Techno Top 10 - November 2010

Some funk-inspired madness here as well as some hypnotic grooves to save your ears from Black Eyed Peas McMusic. There's too much good music out there to listen to fodder. Don't let the idiots win!

House & Techno Top 10 - November 2010
1. Raph Dumas - Afraid of Change (Enjoy Recordings)
2. Examine - Essential Reconstruction (Snejl)
3. Alec Carlsson - 22 (NialaKil Remix) (Elektek Recordings)
4. Ramiro Lopez - Brunch in Guadalmar (Mucky Pups Mellow Version) (Mingtum)
5. Nicole Moudaber - Feel That (iVAV Recordings)
6. Antoine Caesar & Timur Valiev - Le Mag (Hans Bouffmyhre Remix) (Indeks)
7. Berny & Guru - Will You Be Mine (Open Bar Music)
8. Magda - Doom Disco (Minus)
9. Niko Rivera - Santa Fé (Nico Cano Remix) (Leventium Recordings)
10. Arno E. Mathieu - Lamb of Sun (Dub Version) (Clima)

Classic Pic: Corrina Joseph - Live Your Life With Me (Atlantic Jaxx, 1996)
Brilliant vocals over a live-element house track. One of the Basement Jaxx crew's best ever efforts and remixes to perfection by Roger Sanchez who could almost do no wrong in that era.

House & Techno Top 10 Chart - July 2010

Let's face it, the northern summer is a good time to release tunes. There are squillions of awesome tunes out there. Here are two hand-fulls which I reckon kick a bit of arse.

Rob's Top 10 House & Techno jams - July 2010

1. Claudio Mate & Frankie Granato - Music Is A Love Thing (Snejl)

      - a dub-techno styled groove with hook!

2. Koen - Tolle (Aenaria Music)

3. Brotherly - Breathe (Shur-I-Kan Dub) (Dark Energy)

4. Mark O'Sullivan - Viva Voodoo (Nachklangmusik remix) (Nice & Nasty)

      - dope, the way techno should be more often!

5. Uninvited Partners - Day Of The Shogun (Lace Recordings)

      - heavenly strings with a sort of Strings of Life quality.

6. Justin Berkovi - Day Pass Nights Creep In (EevoNext Recordings) 

      - not sure my speakers can go low enough to hear all the bass on this. Darkness!

7. Manny Ward & Joi Cardwell - All Night (Danny Buddah Morales Remix) (Slanted Black)

      - Danny Morales turning good into great. He still has the skills.

8. DJ Gomor - Rablajoie (Lace Recordings)

      - like a bit of 90s sounding acid badness? Then this is for you?

9. Björn Wilke - Mendrum (Original Mix) (Kaato Music)

      - a solid 'Women Beat Their Men'-sampling drum groove

10. Jose Diaz - Luz Del Sol (Ovidi Adlert Remix) (Molacacho Records)

Classic Pic: Katcha - Touched By God (Peace Division Mix) 1999

Where tech-house meets disco and prog with wicked results. An infectious vocal and hypnotic groove!

My 'Future Garage' chart on Junodownload

ome recommended listening to get you through March from the Junodownload store. From deep house to disc-infused techno. New tracks from DFA, Rabid Romancer, Estroe, Amy James, Alex Santer and more.

1. The Crystal Ark - The City Never Sleeps (DFA)

2. Alex Santer - Sweet Tones (Mecha)

3. Rabid Romancer - Clown Tears For Mia (Nice & Nasty)

4. Itokim - Sunlight (Seventh Sign)

5. Estroe - Ketter (Snejl)

6. Arno E Mathieu - Heritage ( (Clima Germany)

7. Ray Okpara - Brainows (Soweso Germany)

8. Amy James - Crunch (Pure Substance)

9. Timos - Move On (Sonido)

10. Mototone - Mercy Dub (Lost In House)

Check out the chart at Junodownload

Rob Warner - Top 10 - June 2007

This time of year is always great for hot new music.. not sure why (change of weather patterns?). As much as I'm loving futuristic house/techno there are also some totally rocking progressive tunes coming out at the moment. No surprises that Eastern Europe and South America feature heavily in charts these days.

1. Moonbeam feat Julia B - Home (Jon Silva remixes) (Moonbeam Music)
2. Active Sense - Squeeks & Kaoss (Jamie Jones's Mix) Immigrant Records)
3. Joris Voorn - Dirty Thoughts (Green/Technasia)
4. Julie Amadeo - Arcade (Lega remix) (Snejl Records)
5. Natural Born Groovers - Call Of Lambada (Aenaria Tribal)
6. Jack Obsolete & Rene De La Soyo - Just Perception (Anil Chawla Mix) (Helvetica)

7. Clubbervision - Ambar (Distorsion Armonica mix) (FeralCode)
8. Facundo Romano - Summer Heat (Pure Substance Digital)
9. Funk Marauders - Rock My Body (Simi & Master Keys Dub) (CR2 Records)
10. Agoria - Les Violons Ivres (Super remix) (Pias Recs)

Enjoy!