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There are some new additions to our blogroll and a few touches to the design after I realized how much it sucked. I’ll be editing it more until I can get Boran to help me with a brand new redesign. Awesome Tapes from Africa, Excavated Shellac, Another Night on Earth, Disco Delicious, Lamaraba, Lagniappe amazing stuff!

Here’s Part 2 of our deep house selection for summer, including the funk induced dancer by Move D on Compost, as opposed to his usual minimalistic style, Marvin Belton’s deep summer tune from 2005, which is a appropriately titled an Early AM Mix and more.

After the Larry Heard post, it’s about time I get a few selected house tracks off my “feature it” directory. The Haaksman & Haaksman remix of Stereotyp’s Keepin’ Me is as massive as it gets, with a muted guitar at the back, female vocals and a funky steppa rhythms.

* A hard to find cassette rip of the Bulgarian virtuoso Ivo Papasov on Dalston Oxfam Shop.
* a ripping dnb track off label boss Iaka’s release on Plain Audio netlabel which specialize in Dnb & Electronica.

Here’s the 3rd part of the house mix. You should check out part 1 and part 2 as well, if you haven’t already.

It’s been a long time since we’ve done a deep/vocal house selection, and meanwhile there’s been some incredible output which usually only makes their ways to DJs’ cases. Here’s a carefully picked selection.

NYC’s Yoruba Records is 5 years old! and here is a double cd compilation by label boss Osunlade to celebrate this great occasion. Artists such as Ebbo, Franck, Nadirah Shakoor, Kb and Osunlade himself have some great tracks on this one.