Micky More & Andy Tee's Groove Culture delivers a fresh spin on jazz-funk classics with a new 7-inch release. The Side-1 features a dj-friendly cover of Lonnie Liston Smith's 'Expansions,' blending disco and house with a funk-driven bassline, soulful vocals, and beautiful keys. On Side-2, it offers a high-energy remake of Light Of The World's 'Time,' featuring Angela Johnson's powerful diva vocals. This track shines with its lively disco vibe, sax intro and dancefloor appeal. Both tracks encapsulate the essence of fun disco and soul and should appeal to a wide range of dance music fans old and young.

Despite his years of dedication to the Balearic scene - not to mention a string of fine albums under the Cantoma alias - Phil Mison doesn't get nearly enough recognition for his achievements. Perhaps his latest album, the undeniably gorgeous See The Sun, will finally provide him with a wider breakthrough. Whether it does or not, it's a genuinely wonderful album that sees Mison wrap his usual uber-Balearic instrumentation - samba-soaked acoustic guitar chords, Flamenco style classic guitar solos, kaleidoscopic synth sounds, sweet male and female vocals, lilting French horn motifs and so on - around grooves that range from slow motion shufflers, and Latin tinged headiness, to organic house rhythms and luscious nu-disco beats. All of Mison's Cantoma albums are excellent but See The Sun really could be his best to date.

On Good Together, Lake Street Dive embraces a renewed sense of purpose and focus on unity amidst social divisions. Described as "joyful rebellion", the album blends energetic, danceable sounds with a defiant, principled message that makes a long-lasting impression. "There's so much pain and division but living in anger isn't sustainable," drummer Mike Calabrese explains adding, "Joy is a powerful way to sustain yourself, and we wanted to remind people of that." The album he has made with his bandmates was produced by Grammy-winner Mike Elizondo and is the first time they collaborated on songwriting from the start. In turn, this expanded their creative range and has brought a new depth to their sound.

Ahead of their upcoming LP release on the Otis label later in 2024, the Barcelona/Brighton duo Phil Passera and Jimmy Day deliver a stunning addition to their already impressive discography with The Wild Butterfly EP. This release features three fresh tracks alongside a highly anticipated tenth-anniversary rework of their much-loved Golf Channel label classic, 'Paradise'. The EP showcases the duo's ability to craft elegant mid-tempo grooves, perfect for both dancefloors and laid-back listening. The tracks are rich with immersive harmonies, pulsating synth basslines, and dreamy jazz guitar melodies provided by guests J Felix and Royce Wood Jr. Add in some smoky saxophone layers, and you have a selection that oozes tactile and evocative vibes. Tailor-made for intimate, love-filled moments and reflective sessions alike, The Wild Butterfly EP is a beautifully layered, emotionally resonant journey that further cements Passera and Day's status as excellent purveyors of mood-driven music.

Lirica White Series makes its debut here with the first 12" from AI Robot. There is an element of humanity and real emotion in these sounds right from the off: 'Chicago Babussa' is a bustling and percussive techno cut with some zippy leads that head off to the cosmos. 'Desert Earth' again blends tribal percussion with retro-future synth sounds and chunky grooves that will sound great nice and loud. 'Dynamic' is a throwback proto-house sound with crashing hits and twitchy pads and 'Electric Love' closes out with some pulsing acid lines and a more pensive feel in the chord structures. Four fresh cuts that get this label off to a good start.

You can never go far wrong when drawing for tunes on the EYA records label and now it's back with more reliably good techno. This one comes from Bordeaux-based DJ and producer Salomee. His superb Delusions EP blends electro and techno from the starry cosmic trip of the opener to the more twisted synth lines of 'Hey23' via the slicker tech snares and kicks of 'About The Past'. A remix by synth wizard LVCA brings some inward reflection over rooted and rolling drums and closes out what is an EP full of emotion and high-grade grooves.

Body Mechanic has been turning out definitive Motor City techno on solid labels like Cryovac, and GASS for several years. This time out he lands-on Detroit Techno and serves up, well, some electro. It's classic 313 tackle though - heavy on the kicks, snappy snares and filthy dirty basslines that make you want to move. Ghoulish vocals add extra grit to the opener and from there 'Dance' gets more playful with jittery drum funk and scratching, 'Beautiful Bum' has a gorgeously tender and reflective vibe thanks to the minor chords and smooth electro rhythms, 'Magic (feat Tay) ' slips into a deep and soulful house groove and 'Househead' is jacked up, loopy and well swung amongst several more timeless cuts. All in all, a killer double 12".

Headek Records marks one of several new establishing vinyl outings with a new one from Raffi Versace, bolstering their ambitious footing in the cross-section of classic deep house and goa trance. Delivering a new EP by an as yet unheard-of moniker, Versace's four establishing cuts span both the minimal and the breadthy, with opener 'It's Bedtime' bringing gated snares and FM ostinatos to a set of ears that doesn't know, and needs reminding (though perhaps not obeying the fact) that it is bedtime. The trance-tunnel only really opens up by the time of the A2, 'House It Up', and thereafter remains open and yawning, the likes of 'Mozambique' and 'Coincidance' daring any would-be sonopsychic traveller to venture further inside.