Vick Lavender - Haunted (Vicks Time Traveller Vol 2 mix)Sophisticado Recordings label head Vick Lavender hails from Chicago and is doing fine work to continue the city's house legacy. Back in January, he dropped the superb Time Traveler album and is now back with a cheeky one sided 12" on limited white vinyl that draws on some mad classic sounds, all worked up into a super funk and jazzy jam that's layered up with Rhodes jams, splashy cymbals, rubbery and rolling baselines and organic percussion. It's the

leaning on the club sound palette harder than its forebear and making subtle explorations into acid grooves

In a flash-in-the-pan industry like music

‘Hogtied’ and ‘Quicksand’

he was in the studio recording his first album

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blending seamlessly with his Mediterranean roots

3D (Massive Attack) said: "The hourly scenes of horror in Gaza

The chunky house drums still sound from the future today

inquisitive…

but is self-centred”

The result is an organic feel of loop-based tracks that breathe and fluctuate enough for Black Thought to ‑ex on

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