★★★☆☆ This is not John Daly, the colorful golfer nicknamed “Wild Thing” and with a Bob Dylan cover to his name. This John Daly is an Irishman who instead makes electro-washed house with a clean and clear temperament made for diving into or relaxing by. Daly is in the courtyard using solar-powered turntables, the blue [...]

★★★★☆ Capitalizing on bass music’s extended reach, Lazer Sword lock in on a sound where the walls are closing in. You have “Point of Return” bashing away, and “Out the Door” really putting the squeeze on you. Through kindheartedness or luck the San Francisco swordsmen then let you push out into freedom, creating an LP [...]

★★★★☆ Reform Club is house music that wants to be there for you, whatever your mood, from the Manchester UK groove masseur Mark Stewart. It plays as some kind of health spa meets convalescence home for house sufferers, mixing up aromas, some tough love and slow motion remedies. There’s the relaxant with strong bass undertones [...]

★★★★☆ Wind Walker – connotations of wind in your hair, or flying on the wings of love, or a general leaning towards positive elevation, right? Wrong – very wrong actually. Cali native, New York spinner and now Montreal tenant, Stefny Winter is sploshing around in the muds of deep house and techno, bass spattering your [...]

★★★☆☆ The fresh-faced, nubile electro of Steve Moore cannot help but dangle on the high wire overlooking the cheese pit. After all, in space travel, the preferred mode of travel for Burning Feeling, the moon is supposedly made of cheese, what with the Whitesnake guitars on “Love Reaction” and “Maybe Tonight” almost overdosing on hairspray. [...]

For today’s dance music enthusiasts, great sounds and chart-topping loops are only a click away. But with this rush of data, there are a lot of weeds to sift through to get to the pay dirt, but the game is starting to change thanks to Audio Raiders. These computer wizards have teamed up with the [...]

★★★☆☆ Antony Williams will forever be judged by the irrepressible “Footcrab.” If you’re after more of the same crowd-slaying, booty bass-beating juke that sends vocal samples spinning in the middle of a game of sonic tetherball, you do get cruder incarnations “Bad Things” and “Beeps” both featuring Spank Rock, and “Starluck” dishing out drum machine [...]

★★★★☆ Cool is such a difficult thing to achieve. You can’t try too hard to get to it, but being blasé about it usually digs its own hole. Soul Clap reach the C word by carefully guiding space-bound electro away from sleazy environs, while maintaining a sexual appetite. “The Alezby Inn” is coded for something [...]

When the goal is to get people to fist pump on the dance floor so hard that their heads feel like they are going to explode, the key to achieving this moment is a big sound. A big sound comes from not just the right gear, but sounds with tons of overtone content, tamed in [...]

★★★★☆ Kris Menace is a firm believer that euphoria will take care of itself if you let it develop naturally. Time and again across his follow-up to Idiosyncrasies there are moments of elevation and jubilation, bearing all of the riffs a Balearic paradise could ask for in a higher state of “Discopolis.” The key is [...]

★★★☆☆ The keys to the kingdom in various Playboy mixes has been passed down through Dimitri from Paris, Felix da Housecat and Bob Sinclar. Michael Canitrot’s name may not roll off a perfectly poised tongue, but here’s another Frenchman, with the notable feat of taking clubbing into the Eiffel Tower, in charge of Heff’s house. [...]

★★★★☆ Philip Bader conveys a sensory/headachey experience that’s defiantly not a sensual one. Although the nefarious sounds can be a turn on, Wishful Thinking is of fairly Spartan, methodical bass-lead convoys where all beats are of an upright, mostly buffed resolution. The way the Berliner strengthens his authority is actually a converse and initially strange, [...]

★★★★☆ Murky and edgy, Fabric 63 – Levon Vincent could leave you shaken by what may lie beneath. Sometimes the science of Vincent bobs up from below with a scared, in-headlights temper. That disorientation, added to the already ominous, off-kilter pianos of JM De Frias’ “Intrinsic Motivation” and DJ QU’s “Times Like This,” attempts to [...]