Pierre De La Touche
French Winter Sampler 2005

Buckle in as KETTAMA smashes through for Steel City Dance Discs Vol. 26! The G-Town heavyweight ticks all the boxes with a 5-track barrage of head-thumping House and Techno.

"Hold Tight" is a 1981 single by Change from the LP entitled Miracles. The single's vocals were sung by Diva Gray. Along with the songs "Paradise" and "Heaven of My Life", it became a number one single on the US dance chart for five weeks.[1] It was also the second single released from "Miracles," as "Hold Tight" peaked at number 40 on Billboard's Soul Chart, and number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The TJR Dub mix of Just Gets Better is an instant garage classic. You'll hear it and be in love. The dub mix is more energetic and upbeat than the original vocal mix.

Once again exciting times for 2TUF4U Records as we experience many new forthcoming releases and digitally remastered re-releases from one of it's earliest signings GE, Mr Gary Esson. Not only will these be available at our official store, but also world wide at all good digital music stores.Label Owner and Executive Producer Karl Brown of Tuff Jam became aware of GE's production talents in the early 2000s. After this quickly became a working relationship with releases such as Nu Generation EP 2004 and The Return EP 2009 released on vinyl.

The angelic figure behind GLRY001 is James Pepper. Leading the next generation of the Sydney scene, Pep has already swapped the headphones with Gerd Jansen, Denis Sulta, Coeo and has multiple collaborations with Berlin’s Black Loops. 2019 saw him spend a lengthy period in Europe, couch and studio hopping before returning home to wrap his best work to date. Matching attitude with beauty, For All My Wrongs is the perfect motif for Gallery’s debut release. Subby kicks are matched with rich and emotive chords, creating 8 minutes of distorted calmness, equally at home in the club as it is on your morning commute. Deep acid grooves come to the front for the second single All Star, a tried and tested live hit for the last six months in Pepper’s shows. Backed by a remix from Melbourne producer Cassettes For Kids. Rounding out the EP is Stampeded (Of The Elephants), a fast, bass line heavy cut with attitude.

Sounds a bit like a more relaxed cousin to "Heartbeat", due to its soulful vocals, disco rhythm, and upbeat plinking synth riff during the chorus. The jazzy electric piano chords are a nice touch as well. This original release can be distinguished from the reissues/bootlegs by a few characteristics. While the original has a color-gradient label-background with a light green/grey undertone the reissues have plain black background. The text alignment is different as the original has a full line-spacing between "Records & Filmworks Inc." and "Chemise". On the reissues there is only a 1-2 milimeter spacing. Also the original says "33 1/3 RPM" and the reissues say "331/3 RPM". The lower round-text ends next to "Vocal" on the originals while it ends at the height of "RPM" on the reissues.