Episode 42: French Express

Fresh off the bat from their Garden Festival Special, Barrientos & DVRS took a little nosey into the dreamy world of French Express for Episode 42 of Lava Lava.  Founded by the American producer Leon Oziel, a.k.a. Perseus, in 2008, French Express started off as a blog that was dedicated to showcasing newly emerging DJs and producers.  Six years later and it’s responsible for nurturing talent like Moon Boots, Jonas Rathsman & Isaac Tachauer to name but a few.  We’re big big fans of this label here at the blog; it’s pretty much our go-to for rich, deep, well produced and intelligent house music.

This vibe was carried on into the Residents Mix as we kicked off with some deep house cuts from Julian Perez, Kahwe & Delano Smith as well as some impressive promo material sent through from Indian producer Hamza and the innaguaral release for Titanic City from Martin De Brig.  Even after we played out the brand new disco-drenched track from Nancy Whang, things got a bit out of hand with massive bass-heavy tracks from the likes of Claude Von Stroke, Pedestrian, Harvey McKay and the new promo from iO Sounds.

Thank goodness our Top 5 took things down a notch.  We’ve been fortunate enough to have had some sick promo material sent through to our inboxes, in particular the new from Roisin Murphy on the Vinyl Factory and Reset Safari‘s most recent remix on Kitsune Maison.  Making it to the number one spot was Dusky‘s track ‘Inta’ from the first release on the British duo’s newly formed 17 Steps.

LABEL FOCUS: French Express
FM Attack – Yesterday
Isaac Tachauer – Step Away
Jonas Rathsman – Hope I’m Wrong
Perseus – Running Back To You
Moon Boots – Off My Mind
uniforms – 1020 Trickery Lane (Rainbows of Death Remix)
Meroz – Summertime Shandy

LAVALAVA RESIDENTS MIX
Kartech – House Shift (Hamza Remix) Wind Horse
Julian Perez – Reef Fathers & Sons
Martin De Brig – Moving Down
Kerri Chandler – Sunday Sunlight (Delano Smith Remix)
Kahwe – Sit Back
AN:TI – Under Manhattan
Nancy Whang – I Was Made For Loving You
Igor Vicente – The Knight (Electric Jones Remix)
LNR – Work It To The Bone (DJ T Edit)
Hauswerks – Listen To Me
Claude Von Stroke – Eye I Eye
Basement Jaxx – Never Say Never (GotSome Remix)
Pedestrian – Drop Bear
Harvey McKay – Silk Road
iO Sounds – Freak You
Trus’me – Moonlight Kiss (Skudge Remix)
Bravofox – Rose Madder
Bonobo – Duals

LAVALAVA Top 5
(5) Roisin Murphy – Mi Senti (Psychemagik Remix)
(4) Nimmo & The Gauntlents – Others (Reset Safari Remix)
(3) Bondax – All I See (Darius Remix)
(2) Artifact – Even
(1) Dusky – Inta