If only fans of every music genre could count on Push to
gather the latest and greatest tracks. For the 9th time,
the Hamburg label comes up trumps for deep house,
doing the digging so you don't have to.
The big hitters get things rolling in style: Steve Bug
distils the work of electronica act Pentatones into a
deep groove that grips synapse and sinew alike; Alex
Niggemann adopts a new alias - C'est Moi - to marry a
US garage influence to his distinctively European sensibility
and Phonique delivers a new mix of the bona
fide classic 'Feel What You Want' - exclusive to this
compilation.
Elsewhere, there's no let up in quality. Ridney, long
championed by Pete Tong and Carl Cox, gives us his
anthemic rework of Emil Berliner's 'What‘s Love';
Lithuania's Few Nolder impresses with the perpetual
motion machine of 'Twin' and Jona and Elia Vens serve
up deep, aquatic house.
For the dancefloor, there‘s Taylor's hardcore-inspired
re-rub of Steve Bug's 'A Shot In The Dark'; the
2008 classic 'The Passion' with its big, bold piano;
Brynjolfur's early 90s homage 'Steezy' with its giant
breakdown; Benja & Reta Ardour's highly-rated 'Cognition'
and Kindimmer's 'Tremor', a tune that's light
and airy yet simultaneously deadly deep. For dreamier
moods, Stelios Vassiloudis and Moodmusic label
boss Sasse deliver the hauntingly sexy 'Refuse'; Tiago
Fragateiro fine-tunes the dreamy spaciousness of
Kasper Bjørke's 'Sylvia' and Brooklyn-based Frank
and Tony capture the magic of a perfect sunrise.
Last but not least, Sam K's 'Elido', a masterclass in
space and balance, slips in a cheeky Temptations
sample - 'I will build you a castle with a tower so high'
- that beautifully sums up the ambition and reach of an
outstanding anthology.