Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Col Lawton is a House Music DJ, Producer and co-owner of Deep Fix Recordings along with Wez Hall, Robbie Robinson and Brain Jordison. He has crafted a career that demonstrates an evolving ability to produce music that is both authentic as well as incredibly addictive. As his fab new remix of Jay B McCauley and Leeny Pearls single, ‘I Am More Than Just Your Queen’, drops on Vagrant Soundz, DMCWorld goes back to mine with Col Lawton.
1 Kevin Yost – It’s A Joint Jazz – i! Records
I have a real love for deep jazzy vibes and this ticks all the boxes for me. Kevin makes wonderful music, this track triggers my imagination of a small dark club, smoking cigars while I play jazzy base, haha.
2 Jay B McCauley & Leeny Pearls – I Am More Than Just Your Queen (Col’s Burning Remix) – Vagrant Soundz
Jay has produced a wonderful track with Leeny. The original is very special and I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I focused on the vocal around “Burn for yo” and whacked a whole load of funk on the track to burn up the dance floor – fire extinguisher need please!!!
3 Manuel Costela – Impossible Love – Deep Fix Recordings
Getting Manuel on my label was a must, I love his work and he really hits the spot with this deep house chunky funky vibe, full of groove and oozing deep house class. That baseline is so nice.
![Manuel Costela - Impossible Love [Deep Fix Recordings]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_k7txaFQaNw/hqdefault.jpg)
4 Col Lawton – Hey (In the rain) – i! Records
I loved making this track. I make multi genre productions and I have a love for Afro/Latin vibes, so I combined this with some jackin’ vibes and the tropical colourful ‘Hey (In the rain)’ was born. I do believe it was raining very heavily this day outside the studio, which may of influenced me!
5 DJ Christian B – Trade 4 Love – Velvet Basement Records
Damn, the vocal on this track is unreal. I am a sucker for a vocal hook and I’ve been loving Christian’s productions for the past couple of years, beautifully produced and full of emotion.
6 Simon Adams – Joint Jazz – Material
I’ve been dropping this one in my sets all year. What a track, this is full of jazz and groove has one of the best drops I have heard in a long-time – pure jazzy vibes, great production and goes down super well on the dance floor, plus it’s been the charts like forever!
7 Julius Papp – Journey Together (No Solo Dub) – Salted Music
A track you need to listen to and take a seat to appreciate the quality of how to use synths in a deep house track, alongside its punching baseline. I love music that takes you on a journey and will be playing this one in my sets for a looooooong time, it’s a beauty of a track.
8 Teddy Black & Austin’s Groove – Lets Go Back – Motive Records
Australian duo who keep making fire. I love tracks with a groove and a salute to old school vibes. With a scratch and a rap, you got me hooked, I love how this track bubbles along with an old school vocal and a up to date bass and beat.
9 T.Markakis – The Cornerstone – Large Music
I had the pleasure to be part of Large this year. Thet are a great label and I love T’s music. Another salute to jazzy vibes, T does this extremely well with the addictive piano riff and hypnotic vocal, this track just slides along beautifully.
10 Ridney & Richard Earnshaw – The Inside (Richard Earnshaw clubside mix) – Armada Subjekt
Another track which has been firmly in my sets for the past 6 months, it’s a wonderful track to drop on the dance floor. It uses a great vocal sample but keeps things jazzy and pumping. It’s such a great track full of house music flavours.
Jay B McCauley ft Leeny Pearls ‘I Am More Than Just Your Queen’ (Incl. MicFreak and Col Lawton Mixes) is out now on Traxsource promo / Full release December 15th 2022 on Vagrant Soundz.
https://www.traxsource.com/title/1907103/i-am-more-than-just-your-queen