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Ibized By David Penn 2012

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Those more accustomed to the unexhausted heat of Spanish House music know all too well the particular set of skills brandished by David Penn. At the essential summer ascent for this award-winning asset to the ballsy Balearic beat, his latest summer compilation ‘Ibized’ embraces a hunger for seasonal hallmarks that the Madrid based producer and his Urbana imprint was born to quench.

A born survivor and ever-enthusiastic floor filler in spite of predictable times for genre and industry alike, Penn’s enigmatic ear for sharp Mediterranean grooves pervades this  mix of assorted House gems from the loins of his Urbana imprint. While such personal and re-orientated cuts as Fredrico Scavo’s take on ‘Lovin U’ and Penn’s worthy remodel of ‘Whatever May Come’ make for obvious album standouts, label favorite Deux’s essential club cut ‘Party People’ and Julian Guargue’s ‘No Accident’ showcase the label at its most affirmative. But the most impressive factor in this modest label compilation remains the consistency to which this uncompromised Spanish stronghold swears by throughout. Without one single groove mismatched or tropical gem outspoken, Penn’s diligent Balearic composition screams wonders for the years that this Mediterranean Maestro has committed to mastering the heart and soul of Spanish club culture.

While Penn caters for a rather specific field within modern Dance music, anyone seeking the genuine heat of Ibizan summer clubbing should immediately orientate themselves with this prime showcase of ardent and exotic House music that shows no sign of falling out of favor upon the taste making island.

Ibized by David Penn is out now via Beatport. 

Jason Chance & My Digital Enemy feat. Yasmeen – Whatever May Come

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Right in time for the impending season of sun kissed club nights and not so early-rises, familiar British outfit My Digital Enemy and Surrey’s Jason Chance unite to give European House music a well-deserved wake-up with ‘Whatever May Come’ for Urbana Recordings. 

Having taken Stealth Records on their own merits and injected countless spots of positivity into the British House scene, their debut venture for Urbana ushers in a very special vocal spot from Defected’s familiar soulful songstress Yasmeen Sulieman. Balancing stern tribalesque rhythmic alongside an effortlessly seductive top line from Yasmeen, this triple threat studio get up sink a display of lucid leads and exotic chords into an affirmatively sun kissed anthem substance floor-filling properties. As easy on the ears as the sunset cloaked canvas of Ibiza is to the soul, there is a therapeutic property to this British instalment that implores great confidence that in the thorough-bred champions still representing the UKs far from ideally climatized shores.

Accompanied by a firm remix from the Urbana master and frequent Defected flyer himself David Penn, the Madrid based studio wiz uses his own sturdy take of solid beats and subtle leads to ornament what looks to be an essential instalment where straight-up House etiquette is concerned.

‘Whatever May Come’ is out May 17 on Urbana Recordings.