Secretsundaze Music Vinilo y CD

Review: The third volume in the Dance 2017 series is notable for featuring the first collaborative production from Giles Smith and James Priestley under the Secretsundaze moniker. Given that they delivered their first combined mix CD some ten years ago, "Motorway" has been a long time coming. It's also rather good, offering a hypnotic and wide-eyed blend of urgent, 128 BPM percussion, car horn style synth stabs, heavy bass and swirling string loops. It's not exactly Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" for the tech-house generation, but we sense the Robots would approve. Less surprising is Palm Trax's "Outflight", a positive and melodious chunk of synthesizer-heavy deep house goodness full of new age melodies, darting synth-bass and crunchy drum machine hits.

Review: With - gulp - a decade of debauched parties now behind them, Gilles Smith and James Priestley are pushing the boat out in celebration. As well as a string of parties, they've put together this deluxe double CD compilation of musical highlights and personal favourites. With Smith and Priestly both serving up their own mix, the quality threshold is consistently high. There are many long-forgotten gems and little known remixes, touching on most of the duo's various inspirations over the last ten years, from slept-on deep house, floor-friendly techno and druggy tech-house to starry-eyed broken beats, body-poppin' jackers and string-laden disco-house.