We all know Orlando for his more techno/Detroit stuff. But this is a beautiful piece of old school deep house. This sounds great in the club and also at home. I really got a warm feeling off it. I don't know actually if it's Detroit-y; maybe a mix of Detroit and the old Chicago style. I guess Detroit-y is most of the time more industrial and this is really warm and beautiful. If you put it on it puts a smile on your face and it's like the sun starts shinning! [laughs] Orlando is one of the Dutch masters from the early days, so I always check out what he does, but I kinda lost him for a while but lately, especially in the last year, he has been doing some nice work.

I was pleased to finally find something good between all the promos I get sent. This is a great electro kinda record with funny vocals. Dave Aju really has a good way to make those jumping sounds and together with the funny vocals singing "what do I do" it makes me laugh. I have been playing it a lot recently and I'm really pleased with it. I've actually got no idea how the original sounds! Although from what I remember of it, they’re quite similar minus the Dave Aju "jumpy" sounds.

I hadn't heard of him before, but this one is a good mix between techno and house; a great melody/bassline that keeps on rolling. Nothing really happens except for African sounding echoes but the arrangement makes it exciting all the way and gets the people to scream. It's kind of funny because I got it out of the Traxsource charts from Roger Sanchez. Most of the time when I have been playing it, my colleagues come and ask me what this is and it's always funny to see their reaction when I tell them I got it out of Roger Sanchez's charts!

This one comes from a Sublevel Sampler from Doc Martin. I'd met Doc about a year ago when we played at Fabric together and back then this one had just come out. I never heard about this artist before and when I checked on the internet it was a guy from Japan mainly making jazzy-oriented house which wasn't really my thing. But this one is a really big dub sounding record with a massive bassline that I have been pumping in almost every set since I had it. Every time you put it on something happens on the dance floor, almost like the whole crowd changes actually; it sounds fantastic! A lot of festivals where I have been playing recently I've started with this record and when I put it on it's almost like you really make a point. Lots of people have asked me what it is and it's the only record I know of his (Little Big Bee) that he did this way. Doc Martin is really a king in finding records that nobody has.

Another great slamming party track I have been pumping all summer. The vocals are originally by the Temptations. They used the vocals and added the right beats and samples to make this one what it is. It's great to have these really old black screaming soul vocals which seem to have come out of the deepest part of their throats over a slamming old school sounding house track—it's pretty cool.