Vester Koza EP vinyl

Vester Koza is a fresh talent based in London, but his smooth, hypnotic brand of house sounds like it's come straight out of Berlin. "Mosquito" is a dubby basement jam whose nuanced production packs imperceptibly subtle percussive click into its warm chord arrangement, while "Transit" comes across as a slightly more motorik jam, with the kind of cavernous snares and tense chords Kassem Mosse would deploy in one of his darker Workshop releases, accented with lighter melodic chimes. Turn over for "the Pagan Groove of San Francisco", whose lively, funky groove is underpinned with a heaviness that puts it almost into dub techno territory, counterbalanced by "The Way (Of The Dub)", a masterful exercise in warm, unfolding deep house. On the strength of this release, Koza is one to keep an eye on.

Jane Fitz, Patrick Luca (Island Issues), Stojche, Life Recorder, Ben Boe (For Those That Knoe), Ikpathua, FOLD, Bantam Lions, James Ornate, Juno Recommends Deep House, Zoo Look, Jazz Neversleeps, Richard Zepezauer (RZ-1), NICOLA CONTE, ManooZ, Agnostic Rhythm, Jenifa Mayanja Bumako Recordings, Manos Mara (Bliq), Natan H, Kastil (Soul Notes/Stale), Tommy Finger Jr., Regen, Cecil (artfuldivision)