De'Sean Jones & Ideeyah - "Pressure"
Donald Roland II - "Simba's Theme"
Meftah - "When The Sun Falls"
Theo Parrish & Duminie DePorres - "The Real Deal"
Specter - "The Upper Room"
Deon Jamar - "North End Funk"
Ian Fink - "Moonlight" (Duality/Detroit version)
Monica Blaire - "Again" (T edit)
De'Sean Jones - "Psalm 23"
Raybone Jones - "Green Funk"
Jon Dixon - "Wind Drifts" (instrumental)
Whodat - "Don’t Know" (feat Sophiyah E)
KESSWA - "Chasing Delerium" (feat Nova Zaii)
De'Sean Jones - "Flash Spain"
Jason Hogans - "Surrounded By Trees"
Howard Thomas - "Experiment 10"
Review: Theo Parrish is a world-renowned name in the global Detroit house and techno game, and he's thrown a fascinating curveball as the latest entrant for the acclaimed DJ-Kicks series. Mr. Parrish has gone above and beyond the duties of most invitees - rather than just licensing tracks from his favourite artists and big-name-friends, he's asked his own community from Detroit to each produce their own mixable tracks, exclusively for the comp. What's more, these are hardly established names - they're organic connections to Parrish, not occupying the top layer of attention and recognition. Bits from H-Fusion, Jon Dixon, Donald Lee Roland II, Ian Fink and Raybone Jones all dominate this anarchic new deconstruction of the otherwise exclusivist mix series.
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