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This latest in the Toolroom Knights collection comes from Swedish house master, John Dahlback. It features a selection of the best melodic house tracks about at the moment and 3 exclusive tracks of his own (“Feel It”, “Heroes” and “Escape”).

The two CD collection features tracks from Zombie Disco Squad, Mark Knight & Wolfgang Gartner and D Ramirez. CD1 kicks off a little mellow with Lovebird’s “Want You in my Soul” and progresses into a relatively chilled collection of house tracks expertly melded together into one hypnotic mix – there’s shades of a party feel throughout along with some latino and disco.

CD2 carries on the party feel with D Ramirez’s “8 Bit Trumpet” but this CD has progressive and more upfront tracks interspersed throughout, and the CD finishes off nicely with some excellent Dahlback tracks and a selection of more electro-house sounding tunes.

CD2 is by far my favourite disc of the collection, but if I’m honest, I was a little disappointed that the whole collection wasn’t more progressive house throughout. It was what I was expecting I guess and whilst the second CD has plenty to offer in this respect, it would have been nice to have two discs rather than just one.

There’s no doubt though Dahlback is a master at his craft and his own tracks on disc 2 are stand out tracks in their own right.

Check out the Toolroom Knights Soundcloud and the video clip below for a sample of what to expect from the album.

Out now on Toolroom Records.