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Dave Spoon - Toolroom Knights: A Journey Through the Worlds Finest House Music (Toolroom Records)
“A Journey Through the Worlds Finest House Music” alludes to an everything but the kitchen sink approach to house, and with Toolroom’s Knight’s latest, Spoon has dished up a wide breath of house styles on this 2-disc compilation. You name it, it’s probably in here, new, old, some even wearing a little thin.

Dubbed “Main Room,” disc 1 starts out a little sketchy, and feels outside the concept, but Sebastian Ingrosso & Laidback Luke help steer us back on course with the progressive power of Chaa Cha and Jerry Ropero & Clubworxx set things right again with a Bangledesh dub, with its excellent hypnotic and stripped back house grooves. One of my longtime favorite house producers, Antoine Clamaran, brings it deep with his bass droppin’ Get Down, simple but effective.

Disc 2, the “Basement” side, infuses some dopeness into the air with Dave Spoon’s own reworking of the great grimey Flex, from the one and only Dizzee Rascal. WTF’s Chicken holds a current, albeit flippant, tone to its tweaked plucky, clucking synths and a slightly toned down electro synth bass. As is Another State’s Amnesia with its careful use of electro house synthlines, dirty and funky, bringin’ a little soul and swing back into it.

If you couldn’t tell from the tracklist, this double set carries a heavy does of electro house, but after 2-3 years of this sound, I find myself gravitating back towards the funky, dubby, deep and progressive, and away from the buzzy, crunchy, distorted, or lo-bit synths. Still, there are definitely some great tunes in here worth checking out, regardless of your current gravitational orbit.

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