Established in 2014, Knee Deep In Sound has been building a vast and highly respected catalog of great dance music. For this compilation, the label looks back to the year that was 2025 - another great year of great music for the label complete with 28 tracks in total. Label owner Daley Padley begins things with his house stormer 'Alive' under his Hot Since 82 name. The vocals lifts the track higher while the piano adds to the soulful emotion. Max lachetti's 'Bones' is deep seated builder that leaves the dancefloor wanting more. The track delivers in a reserved groove that pulls in the deep listeners along the way. In other notable tracks, Cameron's 'Addicted' delivers pure tech-house fun, complete with a bouncing bassline and a perfectly timed vocal break that slots effortlessly into a DJ set. Also. Garry Todd's 'Electric Dance' features classic filtered house euphoria, evoking Ian Pooley's timeless feel-good touch. Its uplifting, warm and exactly what house music should sound like. Retrouve's 'Ecstacy' takes things to the edge with a perfect beatless moment before snapping into a crisp, catchy drop that rewards a dancefloor. Ronnie Spiteri's 'Illusion' brings a tribal energy, recalling sweaty warehouse raves while Avalon Child's 'Feelin'' adds a more jazzy flair, with upbeat funk, fluid keyboard licks and infectious momentum. Marc Arnold's 'Don't Stop' is another standout house track done right: a tight, looped groove anchored by a clever vocal sample that keeps things heady and hypnotic. This package defines another great for the label for 2025.
A new Bedrock compilation is always going to get progressive house buyers salivating, and for such folks the '2025 Collection' is unlikely to disappoint. The 25-track set opens in fairly full-on, trance-y mode with Guy J's 'Stranger In A Strange World' but takes in a variety of styles as it moves on, with deeper cuts from Pig&Dan, Hermanez, Paul Roux and Costax & Timo Maas snuggling up alongside driving, hi-octane workouts from the likes of Dino Lenny, Alex Medina, Ian O'Donovan and the heavy-hitting trio of Digweed, Romboy Muir, before we eventually arrive back at the beginning, with two new rubs of Bedrock's own 'Heaven Scent', the track that started it all back in 1999...
If you're in search of the best underground producers working in the progressive house arena then you could do worse than check out this end-of-year compilation from the respected Bonzai stable, which packs 30 tracks from almost as many artists, with nary a household name in sight! Musically speaking, Bonzai's take on the progressive blueprint is pretty well established by now - you're probably expecting a slew of surging, pulsing eyes-down synth workouts, without too many big cheesy synths or annoying pop vocal snips, and you'd be right, though there's room too for Dion Paola & Emiliano Ferrareso's deeper 'Luminous Drift', plus one certified hip-house slammer in Roger-M's 'Flava'.
SCI+TEC closes out the year with this exhilarating, wide-ranging compilation. Blaktone's "Aim" is a high-octane electronic disco banger, while the low-slung groove of Simon Vuarambon's "DEC" represents a more considered take on the sound. Given label owner Dubfire's musical background, it's no surprise that techno features prominently. Mahony's remix of White Sheep's "Move" is angular minimal at its finest; label regular Angioma's "Melting" is a dubbed out roller and Alinep delivers a dark warehouse workout on "Futura 101". The collection also contains some curveballs. Yulia Niko's take on Dubfire's 2008 classic "I Feel Speed" is a dramatic tech-house builder, while Erol Alkan's take on the same track combines icy synths with a pulsating bass.
Having previously offered up re-edits and original productions from the likes of P Sol, Nelue, Midnight Runners and Sharp Soul, Madrid's Groove Democracy imprint has now turned to newcomer RANE. The publicity-shy producer clearly has talent because this is a hugely impressive debut. The focal point is undoubtedly title track 'The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not Me', which RANE offers up in two forms: the superb 'Disko Version', where fluid and extended piano motifs ride above a bouncy, elasticated disco-house groove, and the more synth-heavy, widescreen 'Club Mix', which draws influence from melodic trance as well as colourful nu-disco. To round off a rock-solid EP, RANE drops 'New Year's Mirage', a squelchy and dreamy chunk of synth-heavy nu-disco chug that reminded us of Belgian heroes Aeroplane.
2025 was one of the busiest years for Anjunabeats, and Yearbook maps out this activity in detail. Representing the many hues and palettes in the label's canon, it features vocal tracks like Mark Eteson, Echoes & Bluebird Wood's poppy "Home Is Here" and Darren Tate & Susie Ledge's ethereal "In This Space". At the other end of the spectrum are the melodic club tracks that the label is synonymous with, like Marsh's dreamy take on Above & Beyond's "Sun In Your Eyes" and J Ribbon's breezy "Lifetime". The compilation also reveals different sides to the label, like the brooding bass tones of Dosem's epic "Futuregate" and the driving techy trance rhythm on Station To Station's "The Drums". Here's hoping 2026 is as busy.
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