Collection: House

Cat:  SPC 143

While glassy-eyed, loved-up and overtly dreamy house with notable early '90s references has become something of a cliche of late, that's no criticism of Patrick Holland AKA Project Pablo, one of a small band of producers who helped kick-start the trend a few years back. As this outing on Spectral Sound shows, he's still miles ahead of his rivals. The EP sees him giddily charge between colourful, emotion-rich deep house retro-futurism (the sci-fi sounds and peak-time hustle of opener "The Solution"), swooning, dubby mid-tempo dreaminess ("Pressure No Impact"), jaunty and melodious loveliness ("Big Room Delusion") and the kind of clonky, metallic fare that recalls all manner of classic underground cuts from 1990 ("Pill").

Cat:  DR 002

Last year Leon Atter made his debut as Xtra Brux on CoOp's third "Selectors Assemble" compilation, following it up earlier this year with a track on Dance Regular's debut EP. Here he returns to the latter label with his first solo EP. First up is "Dubz 4 Dancerz", a deliciously dirty fusion of heavy, garage-style bass, crunchy broken beats and sweaty vocal snippets. It's followed by the similarly inclined "I Need U", which sounds like the kind of weighty, loose-limbed roller that we can imagine Toddla T dropping, and the UKG/broken beat fusion of "Hush", whose cut-up vocal snippets doff a cap to Todd Edwards. To round things off Atter reaches for the wobble bass and organ stabs with great success on "Deep Down Inside".

Cat: VIAGGIO 03

Cat: KOMIX 4PDJ

Cat: PG 061

Cat: TFAD 7

Cat: HZO 11

The crew behind the Hizou label is rightly chuffed that they've managed to secure this two-tracker from Andres, a Detroit producer whose releases - whether aimed at deep house dancefloors or hip-hop heads - are rarely less than superb. The two tracks the label has selected are suitably strong, too. Check first A-side "All U Gotta Do Is Listen", a warm and hazy chunk of break-driven mid-tempo deep house rich in jazzy samples, swirling crowd noises, chunky bass and dewy-eyed instrumentation. Andres' vintage influences are explored further on flipside "Night Time Is The Right Time", a P-funk influenced deep house bumper whose swinging drums and elongated organ chords casually tip a wink to classic New Jersey garage.