Percussive Afro House

Percussive Afro House - Full Ableton Production Suite. Including 3 Fully Produced Tracks as Ableton Projects, 30 meticulously crafted Ableton Instruments (no third party software required), a Sample pack of 150 one hits, 60+ MIDI files, and 140+ Loops + More!

Nine-piece West Africa-via-Melbourne ensemble Ausecuma Beats and improvised collective Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, also known as Z*F*E*X, reveal a new collaborative EP out August 19 via Music in Exile.

Stepping up to mix Defected's coveted In The House series is Mele, a producer whose standout percussive sound and infectious energy behind the decks makes him one of the UK's most captivating, flourishing DJs. From 13-year-old bedroom DJ growing up in the Wirral to his breakout tribal anthem 'Ambience' in 2015, Mele has now fully honed his skills in production and mixing, culminating in these two mixes for 'Defected presents Mele In The House'. Describing working on the mixes as ?like putting together a really hard jigsaw puzzle?, Mele's In The House was mixed live, charting his obsession with deconstructing tracks and echoing his DJing technique using three or four decks, looping percussion and piano parts over each other for a uniquely layered effect. The mix draws on almost 25 years of house music, focussing on the Latin, tribal and percussive, along with a couple of slick curveballs.

The esteemed scribe, proper DJ, and discreetly deft twiddler Bill Brewster, drops the latest installment in his ‘After Dark’ series, for Late Night Tales.

After remixing Lord Echo's track "The Sweetest Meditation" for Soundway Records in 2017, New Zealand's Julien Dyne returns to the label with the full album "Teal", a synth-heavy sonic palette of future-soul and percussive afro-house.

Essential Afro Tech Vocals has been compiled from the Soundbox vaults from their Hot and Award selling vocal packs. 5 collections including Afro Tech Vocals 1, 2, 3, 4 and Afro Tech Glitch Vocals make up this insane 1.62GB of the coolest loops available.

Italian producer Vito Lalinga a.k.a (VIi Mode inc Project) is back with his third edition of Afrodisiac, Pt. III. As the title states, inside this release you should expect a style that is all about african based music. Combined with todays fat electronic broken beats, funk & four on the floor house grooves.

When Eskimo Recordings approached Bill Brewster with the idea of putting together a compilation exploring his epic record collection, the acclaimed journalist and DJ decided to take a widescreen approach. The resultant collection is vast and predictably on-point, with each of the CDs gathering together tracks on a loose theme ("Post-Punk", "Balearic" and "House"). As you'd expect, it's a hugely impressive and eye-opening set, with Brewster serving up largely obscure or long-forgotten cuts that range in scope from trippy, dubbed-out post-punk disco, jaunty jazz-funk, synth-heavy boogie and heavily percussive Afro-disco grooves, to saucer-eyed European synth-pop, the dub techno of Maurizio, Swag's early UK tech-house and the East Midlands deep house bump of Charles Webster's "A Love From San Francisco" project. In other words, it's a cracker from start to finish.

As ever, the Bomb Strikes imprint delivers an awesome package to us with this brand new 25 track compilation entitled 'Funk N' Beats Vol. 5', To be honest, it's exactly what it says on the tin as The Allergies head up waves and waves of funkadelic rhythms and crunchy riffs. For us the highlights have to be the futuristic drum processing and subtle percussive movements of 'Loose Gardner' from Flevans, along with the classic breakbeat fusion of 'Fire' remixed by Smoove but originally produced by the Renegades Of Jazz. With the sheer depth of the project it's easy to get lost within the tracklisting, which is always a good sign on a large scale compilation.