LEX WOLF Vinilo y CD

Review: After the success of Lextended, the mysterious Lex Wolf is back with a second volume of sweet edits of classic dance tracks. Highlights include the clean edit of Smokin' Gang's hip-house classic 'Just Rock', a Latin house remix of the classic 'Conceicao' and a huge mix of the legendary banger 'House Music' at Eddie Amador. All these edits succeed in focusing in on the grooves while keeping the soul and energy of the original. True and proper edits, primed to reign on the dancefloor.

Review: M.A.D. Records continues its edit series with Lex Wolf in control and showing off the skills that have earned him such a fine reputation. He is one half of Acid Monkeys and a renowned DJ who plays his own parties at Picks Hotel in Ibiza and has released on labels like Warp Records and R&S. He rips through several styles here with disco, wave, electro, proto house, new beat and cosmic styles all making for some timeless dancefloor nuggets. 'Aril' is our pick with its future-retro synths, jacked-up drums and vamping chords all next to a great vocal lop.

Review: London-based label 'M.A.D. Records' are sure to stoke the flames of quickfire popularity with their mission statement, to uphold "the love of the dance", and "to always have the dance in mind". That being said, four new contributions from four of the label's most trusted mainstays all nail that intersection of hip-house, '90s piano house and breakbeat to a T. All scratchy and lo-fi, it kicks off with Rakim Under's phoned-in 'Lady J', before seguing into the pianoraver '4th Street' by Pascal Moscheni, the much-deeper 'Loving You Like Crazy' by Lex Wolf, and the spatially unique 'Let's Get It Together' by Hard Drive Library.