The third Smile For A While release comes from serious deep house badman Monosoul, a regular on cooler than cool labels like Frank Music who knows how to craft a warm and humid groove. Two remixes are also included and they are just as great, with Mistress man Borrowed Identity and Frank Music boss Johannes Albert contributing the other. Opener June is a spacious, smoky deep house jam with a well rooted kick drum, a sandy hi hat and the most serene of pads circling way off in the distance. It’s a simple but effective affair that will warm floors through this autumn. The Borrowed Identity mix of the same track flips it into s a slightly quicker and more purposeful jam with blocky hits and scraping perc, but also some lovely trumpet or sax instrumentals that lend it a classy air of jazziness. Face Shift is Monosoul’s other original and is another unhurried, airy affair with a simple chord progression rolling over louche deep beats and jangling percussion. Lastly, Johannes Albert turns out a remix of New World that has a killer FM baseline, big dramatic hits and classically inclined pads, spoken word vox and even a muted acid line. Great stuff.
5 out of 5
Reviewed by Ian Fleming
