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Juno Daily’s reviewing prospectors digging deep for this week’s vinyl gold nuggets
SINGLE OF THE WEEK
It’s hard to keep up with Denham Audio right now. The last few years have seen a salvo of killer 12”s splaying across labels like Sneaker Social Club, Frendzone! and WNCL’s Library Tool Kit, while frequent sparring with Borai helped launch the Club Glow series as well as essential drops on Higher Level and E-Beamz. It’s a buoyant time for hypercharged rave music, which seems ironic given the dearth of raves across the globe, but right now there’s a great catharsis in listening to peak time rushers and imagining a crowd losing their collective minds.
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Juno Daily on 22.01.2021 at 16:15pm
The top layer of this week’s album cake sliced off with pristine accuracy by Juno Daily’s reviews team
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
In 1995, with all that jungle being banded about, the world needed a break. Slap-bang in the middle of the most drooled-over decade in dance music history, it was a milestone year for smooth, emotive electronic music.
In 1995 new jack swing – which sounded like the erotic, precursory love-child of UK garage and R’n’B – culminated with Montell Jordan’s ‘This Is How We Do It’ topping the US Billboard. The nebulaic cloud of Ibizan balearic beat had left behind a heady scent, ionizing worldbeat acts like Enigma and Deep Forest. Mobb Deep released The Infamous, on which Prodigy’s brooding production style helped ‘beatsmith’ to be taken a bit more seriously as a job title. Most importantly, though, trip hop had lulled listeners into its own realm. Bjork, Tricky, Portishead and Boards of Cana