RAFA SANTOS Vinilo y CD

Review: ***B-STOCK: Slight dent on the run in grove of the record, box damaged, product in perfect working order***


Selections mark the milestone of making it to a 10th release with Mate Records founder and Madrid mainstay Rafa Santos serving up his unique deep house sounds. Santos has been around a while now, with EPs dating back over a decade on the likes of Greta Plan but mostly on his own label since 2019. He brings elements of funk and soul to his house and it is well-versed in the traditional sounds of New York and Chicago. Never overproduced and with just the right amount of raw, all four of these pair competing drum programming with emotive synth work that both soothes you and moves you on the dance floor.

Review: Selections mark the milestone of making it to a 10th release with Mate Records founder and Madrid mainstay Rafa Santos serving up his unique deep house sounds. Santos has been around a while now, with EPs dating back over a decade on the likes of Greta Plan but mostly on his own label since 2019. He brings elements of funk and soul to his house and it is well-versed in the traditional sounds of New York and Chicago. Never overproduced and with just the right amount of raw, all four of these pair competing drum programming with emotive synth work that both soothes you and moves you on the dance floor.

Review: Span's Mate assembled a high class mix of house talents from across the globe for this bumper double 12", 'All Together!!'. Byron The Aquarius opens with one of his more subdued and dusty house groovers in 'Tribes Of Love'. Melchior Sultana brings his signature sun and soul to the beautifully scruffy kicks off 'I Wanna Go Back' and Javonntte's warm, leggy depths invite you in deep on 'Tribute K.a.' Elsewhere are swirling, soulful jams like Alfonso Bottone's' If This Is Heaven, I'm Coming Too' and Garrett David's gently jacker 'Sassy Lead & A Familiar Bark'.