Before slowing down I used to be a regular on the deeper house dance floors, you know those Loft, Paradise Garage torch carrying spaces where DJs knew that disco and jazz funk are house and don't shy away from throwing tunes with live and looser drums in the mix.
G.Delano is another keeper of the flame, albeit via the Motor City school and the footsteps of Moodymann, Theo Parrish and Marcellus Pittmann's looser, sample based, flawlessly imperfect house grooves; fuelled by their deep knowledge of 20th music, coupled with their understanding how music was as much the voice of the Afro American struggle as Martin Luther King.
There seems to be no online information about G.Delano, but dig through the tóRR label catalogue and you'll hear them described as a new producer, and if you know your British accents there is a spoken word sample clue at the end of "Under the Stairs" which points to those wind swept isles as home, unsurprising as the UK has often championed the deeper sounds of the US more than the country's residents.
I'm also guessing they're not the youngest, as their crates and knowledge go deep. I'm not much of a sample spotter but the low hanging fruit has been creatively twisted & then littered with snippets of deeper cuts which have been lopped and looped like someone who hasn't had much of a tan for the last few years, but who makes up for it with studio gear & knowledge.
Funk & disco basslines are repeated within an inch of their and your hips life, flutes & keys reflect off the disco ball giving the dancers some light to reach for, vocal refrains keep it simple & insistent - this is a club not a bar, as horns pierce the heat to encourage the stamina challenged & encourage some jazz shuffling.
So if you're a Moodymann fan, want to dip your toe in the sounds of Detroit's second generation of producers or just need some beatdown boogie, deep house, Detroit disco deviance & machine soul for your weekend manoeuvres then look no further.
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