Beat Tribe welcome in the new year in style for SexOnWax with this evolving, refreshingly expansive eThe Drive Home. Backed up by a deeper, darker take accentuated by swirling stabs from Randall Jones and a stripped-back, echoing beatbox workout from the antithetically-named Dismal, this is a well-balanced package Available on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/release/the-drive-home/1225095

Simon Tappenden, one half of Pop Out & Play, delivers a 2-track release next on SexOnWax Recordings – the raw saw-tooth main synth hook of the opener ‘Medicine’ is an interesting contrast to the softer breakdown that develops from it, and Simon shows his broad musical palette superbly with ‘Through The Light’, a deeper, more subtle affair with dreamlike pads and freshly-chopped beats Buy Link: http://www.beatport.com/release/through-the-light-ep/1207725

Dreamy tones and intricate synthwork over chopped percussion open this release from Fauvrelle & Mi Ke, with first track ‘The Industry’ – moving on, the big spoken word/bass note drop of ‘Sampling Fixation’ builds back to a solid groove, while the final track ‘Only The Breaks’ also employs edited spoken vocals to great effect, adding to this slow-burning head-nodding chugger. BUY LINK: http://www.beatport.com/release/the-industry-ep/1195584 Listen To...

SexOnWax welcomes Italian producer Joy Lee to the label with this brooding, evolving synth-heavy voyage into hypnotic mid-tempo tech house – the spoken vocal invites the listener in deeper, to float along on the bass line Fellow Italian producers ‘Ef and JWL take on remix duties in this package, the former injecting an acid tinge into his remix, taking the sound into darker territory, whilst the latter take things down a more garage-inspired route, squelching basslines playing havoc with driving percussion....

Omid 16B’s SexOnWax imprint returns with the ‘Indian Ocean EP’ – both his edit and prolific artist Andy Slate’s original mean business from the off, with tribalesque percussion communicating incessantly, summoning the Sun to rise again ‘What You Need’ lives up to its name, stripping the audio right back to the essentials, the intoxicated layers of question-and-answer rhythmic choreography segueing elegantly into the final cut on the EP, DIRTYHERTZ’s take on ‘Indian Ocean’, a more uptempo envisioning of the track, replete with swirling sawtooth synth stabs and an almost sonar-like pulse throughout...

Building on their superb release this summer on Alola Records, Voodoo Corporation are back, this time on the SexOnWax imprint, with an expansive, laid-back sultry house jaunt – brooding staccato rhythmic bass tones duck and weave through spoken words, synth pads and disembodied pitched vocal flashes in the original, with label head Omid 16B adding to proceedings with his edit....