Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot - "Alpha" (5:57)
Red Axes - "First Look" (5:50)
AK Sports - "Accept That All Things End & Your Life Will Improve In These Five Ways" (7:50)
Lis Sarroca - "Oasis Floor" (8:00)
Laurence Guy & Miller Blue - "My Heart Still Leans On You" (4:44)
Marc Brauner & Tender Games - "ISS" (5:26)
Main Phase - "All The Girls" (5:28)
Soul Mass Transit System - "Take Me To XTC" (6:01)
Borai - "Seafoam Green" (5:25)
D1 Coldpast & Tuff Trax - "Wilder" (5:59)
Killjoy & Kwam - "Active" (4:48)
Peaky Beats - "Cats From The Back" (6:22)
Testpress - "On My Own" (5:59)
Ams - "Rue Du Transvaal" (5:01)
Kassian - "Burst Mode" (5:09)
Module One & Soela - "If I Only Knew" (7:14)
KaySoul - "Woodward Avenue" (5:52)
Alex Virgo & Benjamin Groove - "Relief" (5:31)
Review: Over the last seven years, Shall Not Fade has become one of Britain's most consistent outlets for quality club music, with a vast roster of artists, a string of offshoot imprints, and a release schedule that refuses to settle on one specific sub-genre or sound. It's fitting, then, that the label's seventh-birthday celebration - a wonderfully produced triple-vinyl compilation of previously unheard cuts - does a fine job in summarising this eclectic, all-action approach. Amongst the 18 top-notch tracks you'll find warped UK techno (Alan Fitzpatrick and Reset Robot's 'Alpha'), wayward dancefloor psychedelia (Red Axes), jazzy and drowsy vocal deep house (Laurence Guy and Miller Blue), organ-fired 90s garage revivalism (Main Phase), sub-heavy breakbeat house hedonism (Borai) and even a dash of two-step UKG/grime fusion (Killjoy and Kwam).
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