Linkwood - Tears
Two of our favorite discoveries/releases this year go side by side nicely– tightly-produced, Detroit/Chicago-influenced, deep soulful house from Scotland's Linkwood and Stuttgart's Motor City Drum Ensemble. Linkwood's 'System' LP (released this September) shot out of left field and into our year's best albums list instantly; deep Midwest house slipping through phases of electro-funk-soul-boogie-jazz-italo... whatever you want to call it, this shit is just FRESH. Can't recommend this album highly enough (you can pick it up here).
Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts #5 (320)
Motor City Drum Ensemble, or Danilo Plessow, is a producer we can't believe we didn't catch on to sooner. Don't think he's released any full length albums yet, but each of his Raw Cuts series (#1-6) are shiny ass gold (pick em up here). Deep Detroit house with chunky kicks for days. If we heard this played out we'd probably explode (wink wink Chicago). MCDE also has a very nice RA podcast, which you can download here.
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