Toolroom Knight’s legend Mark Knight releases a follow up to his “Devil Walking” and “Sax” with a new EP “Bullets EP Vol 2″.
You can get a taster of the EP from the teaser video below – sounds pretty good to me! Out later this month the EP features two tracks “Alright” and “Together” and looks set to rock this years WMC.
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.
Jag Skills fans will be familiar with this track as it has featured in various mixes and compilations, but you probably won’t be familiar with the remixes that come with the original on the release of “9 Levels Of Power
“, released at the end of October on Toolroom Records.
As well as the brilliant original which remains full of dirty beats and martial arts samples, there’s remixes from Santiago & Bushido, Torqux and Unknown Error. In my mind it would be difficult to beat the original, but Torqux makes a reasonable attempt with a more dubstep-like version, but the remix that wins it for me is the Unknown Error “Bass Assault Remix” it keeps the underlying “yah!” synth-whine from the original and add’s deeper bass and drums.
Toolroom Records have a sister label “Leaders of the New School” and on 4th September will be releasing a new album compiled by new House bots Belocca & Soneec.
Check out the video advert below for more info.
Out this week on Toolroom Records is a reworking of an 80s classic “People from Ibiza” from Amo, Navas & Mar-T.
With its vocal hook, retro synth lines and electro drum pad beats, many will recall this track from the 80s when Ibiza was merely a twinkle in the clubbing world’s eye.
As well as the main “Main Floor Mix”, there’s a slightly edgier “Terrace Mix”
