Cassy

Review: Cassy has largely been focusing on her own Kwench label in the past few years, exploring the crossover between pop sensibilities and underground dance music culture. She's carrying that through to her appearance on Pressure Traxx, while clearly nodding to her roots in the minimal scene with the elegant, spellbinding "Strong Sense", all underpinned by her subdued vocal. Tobias steps up for a remix on the B side which takes the track in a shivering techno direction that provides the perfect urgent foil to the cosy house demeanour of the original.

Review: Former Panorama Bar resident and local Berlin fixture Cassy Britton presents her first full length release since giving up her residency and leaving Europe's clubbing capital for the sunny shores of Los Angeles. The Donna LP features some dusty classic house sounds of the deeper spectrum, as heard previously on her eponymous imprint, Uzuri or Perlon sporadically over the last 10 years and her great vocals which veer from spoken word, haunting/monotone to high pitched diva moves are a constant throughout. Highlights for us were the uplifting deep disco of "All I Do", the soulful deep funk on her cover of Prince's "Strange Relationship" or the emotive yet tough techno of "Move".

Review: Not content with a release schedule that delivers a new compilation every other day, Cocoon have decided to launch a new mix strand: Cocoon Heroes. This first installment features discs mixed by Joris Voorn and Cassy. On the first, Voorn smoothly joins the dots between heady deep house, touchy-feely tech-house and melody-driven hypnotic moods, cramming in 26 tracks from the likes of Lawrence, Guy Gerber and Oxia. Cassy takes things a little easier on disc two, choosing to give 13 tracks the chance to breathe. It's arguably a more interesting mix, too, going from the off-kilter bass music of Pearson Sound to the woozy techno of Mr G via a series of impeccably percussive grooves.