Bargrooves Apres Ski 3.0

The Bargrooves year would not be complete without our annual trip
to the slopes. This new volume, Bargrooves Apres Ski 3.0, is the
perfect place to kick off the New Year with a stylish mix of
upfront house sounds as heard on the more discerning dancefloors
and in the finer après ski lounges around Bargrooves’ favourite
mountaintop destinations. Containing two bonus mixes from
Bargrooves A&R, master compiler and veteran of vertiginous
clubland, Andy Daniell, this edition is an album of distinct
halves. The first mix suits a pacier descent or a full throttle
venture onto the dancefloor whilst the second side provides the
soundtrack to a mellower ride or a more soulful backdrop to
loungier post piste activities. Big driving basslines for big air
dominate the first mix. Route 94 enjoyed a breakthrough year in
2013 and here we include two of his productions; first up is his
remix of MK’s 1992 classic Always, a huge floorfiller so far this
Winter, which is followed by a compilation exclusive, Walls Come
Tumbling Down. The unmistakable influence of one Ben Westbeech
reaches across the album with his latest Breach hit, Everything You
Never Had whilst his vocal features on the Jazzanova track I Can
See. Right now, however, there is perhaps no bigger bassline than
the debut from GotSome featuring the Get Along Gang: ‘Bassline’ has
been building up a real head of steam across the club charts and is
due its full commercial release this Spring. A thread of quality
soulful voices runs throughout the deeper sounds of the second mix.
From the word go, Camo & Krooked’s Loving You Is Easy joins
hooky strings and big piano chords to a classic soul vocal, whilst
Holding On from James Fox features the intimate voice of Vanity
Jay. With a career track record that demonstrates his various
different talents, Donae’O’s knowledge and experience of both house
and R’n’B make him the ideal cohort to produce fellow R’n’B
singer/songwriter Terri Walker on her track He Loves Me. Further
highlights includes a pair of DFTD label tracks: J.Cub delivers a
thunderous deep houser set off by the perfectly paced vocal of
Sarah Story, whilst Berlin producer Aaaron’s well-rounded roller,
Feelin’ This, picks matters up a little with its heavy snares
before slowly introducing a distorted looping vocal that never
fails to get people moving.