In Da Club: Top 25 tracks by Cork-associated electronic artists and producers
Cork-born Kerrie is based in Manchester.
Another effortless disco banger. You won’t forget to move your funky feet!
Stirring synths crackle over a relentless, galloping rhythm, as from somewhere deep, a choir heralds the coming of something spectacular.
A late-night synthpop torch song to take you down a boulevard of broken dreams. Somehow, KP Ring’s assuring croon tells you everything will be alright.
Scottish duo 6th Borough feature veterans Craig Smith and Graeme “The Revenge” Clark.
The mixes are solid, with the “Disco Dub” being the pick of the bunch, but nothing matches the flamboyance, mystique, and snappy time signatures of the original.
A pair of stunning ambient/ drone excursions. balefully hums and bristles like an ice storm meeting flimsy resistance.
takes those qualities of beauty and brusqueness and infuses it with a Lynchian undercurrent of tension and menace.
You can imagine Locasena made this track to be heard from stadium-sized speakers.
An intoxicating travelogue through Afro-funk, soul, jazz, and dub, whose twists, turns and contortions spin body and mind in a glorious whirlwind of hooks, beats and loops.
Whatever brought purveyor of moody progressive house Locasena to Dublin producer Conor Thompson’s breezy pop trance anthem , it resulted in this shimmering, multi-faceted, pocket-sized contemporary opera on hyper consumerism. But maybe that’s just me!
This various artists EP, is an exciting offering, reflecting the vibrancy of the local and national scene.
Particular props to the Cork contingent of label founder Hooligan, leading light Doiléir, and rising star Mejmi.
is a little compact in length but, boy, does it surge. It’s an urgent and ecstatic rush.
And it featured on the soundtrack of the Nicholas Cage film
Deeper Groove main man Glenn Davis’s remix disco-fies the title track, building on its infectiously chirpy organ motif.
The closing track is pure spacey disco with the whimsy of Air.
I think I love this because its skanking and sideways lurching Eastern melody reminds me of by The Sabres of Paradise. Still, though, this is delivered with supreme confidence.
“What are the fundamentals of house?” the sampled voice rhetorically asks.
“A phat bassline and a groove that drives.”
All present as d, plus a nagging synthline.
The jittery deftly blends rolling piano and sharp synth stabs
One of the most endlessly intriguing releases I’ve heard in a long while.
Deep house as impressionistic experience. A ghostly echo of nights out; an eerie afterimage of sweat, ecstasy and abandon.
I didn’t think this rework of a track Brian released in 2018 would sur the original.
Inviting his cousin KP to add lyrics and vocals, this is such an exuberant and dramatic disco stomper.
Bangkok Impact’s remix adds some extra handclaps and swagger.
Kerrie’s contribution to a various artists compilation on Soma offshoot label Avoidant is a molten landslide of fuzzy, scrunching bass and slamming beats delivered with her usual verve.
Taken off the Bandon producer’s self-titled third album, has all the lightness and clarity of Bantum’s run of singles since 2020, while also bringing an irresistibly slinky and hipswayingly hooky funky strut.
Released on the house offshoot label of the legendary Clone Records, this is fantastically old school back-in-the-day deep house music with a powerhouse vocal and a steaming jazzy sax.
Recorded in one take, there’s a simplicity to this, but also an undeniable warmth in those fuzzy sounding bits of analogue kit. The three tracks hang beautifully together, culminating in the slow burning small hours banger .
What an achievement to release on the revered Berlin techno label and mecca.
Sounding so assured, she delivers something different and innovative on each of the seven tracks
There is an enveloping sense of calm at work here, like taking a quiet moment in a great but empty cathedral.
The is suitably serene, but the x, while pushing hard on the hi-hats maintains that diaphanous sense of bliss.
Webster discovers something deeply spiritual in the original, overlaying the vocals on gossamer planes to provide a celestial choral backdrop. This is soul and blues and something greater.
More furious, delicious, and overwhelming than . There’s too much here for mere ears to take in.
Toby released the amazing album That Was Then, where he pushed himself in surprising new ways. That’s exemplified by this mindblowing mix of avant rock, jazz and electronica.
Brendan Gregoriy declared: “I’m terrible at describing my own music but there’s a bit of slow burning, hypnotic, spacey techno in there, some classic Detroit influences and the usual Chymera sparkles.”
His spare description is correct but forgets to mention the awesome scale and sheer explosive power of these tracks. Wonders to lose yourself in.
