MUSIC TUNED UP 2017’s first dancefloor weapons p.110 OPUS PRIME January’s top albums p.128 ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Compilations not to miss this month p.132 A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE Throwing Snow returns to Houndstooth with his conceptual ‘Embers’ LP... p.130 djmag.com 109 HOUSE BEN ARNOLD Kian T Room 69 EP Toy Tonics QUICKIES 8.5 Last Waltz If there's a hotter label on the Tunnel Snakes
[email protected] house scene at the moment, it Me Me Me would have to cleverly distract 8.0 Toy Tonics from its current Man Power's Me Me Me imprint presents this from proliferation. This latest slab Last Waltz. ‘Y'ave Changed’ is the one, a twinkling is from Kian T (geddit?), a slab of Balearic-tinged delight. There's a remix from 'mysterious Italian producer', the very hot Red Axes too. who constructs bumpy, funk- laden house music from up a hill Simon Garcia somewhere in wine country. These Trimmer EP are indeed drunken grooves, Pets Recordings notably the magnificent 'Good 8.0 Things', a mucky, p-funked romp. Madrid's Simon Garcia drops this for Pets, the 'Room 69' too wobbles in all the highlight being a dancefloor-ready, organ-heavy, right places. Bonus track 'In My laser-noise-blasting remix from Karlovak main man, Eyes' nails down the wayward Mr. Tophat. Hats off. percussion; skippy and brilliant. NVOY Folamour Make You Mine Shakkei Black Butter All-City 7. 5 8.5 Can't argue with this. Fat, brassy stabs, diva vocals, Lovely work from Frenchman, and production so shiny you could eat your dinner Folamour, aka Bruno B, co- off it.