Ricardo Miranda - 102point7 [ Stilove4music]

A - 102point7

B1 - Rotary Cells

B2 - Greenline


Chicago's Ricardo Miranda makes his debut for the ace Stilove4music label, maintaining a fine year in which he has already dropped some serious heat on Rush Hour sub-label Hour House Is Your Rush and his own Noble Square imprint. Title track "102point 7" is all jagged synths, throbbing arpeggios, slashing claps and a rolling acid groove, marking it out as one of his most incendiary productions to date. On the flip "Rotary Cells" is deeper still, a 909-led jacker with undulating layers of sub bass augmented by a wonderfully woozy vocal which extols the virtues of true Chicago House. This is followed by "Greenline", a stripped back jam with scuttling hats and the kind of paranoid synth melody that wouldn't sound out of place in Jeff Mills' Something In The Sky series.

Ricardo Miranda presents Latin Soul Brothas - Bomba Is Black [Neroli]

A1 - Bomba Is Black

A2 - Back From Detroit

B1 - Termino Mi Amor (GU extended remix)

B2 - Mod Pad


Right after Neroli’s 10th anniversary second celebration EP the label are back with more of Ricardo Miranda's magic! Ricardo and the Latin Soul Brothas serve once again a mix of deep spiritual latin tinged house rhythms. "Bomba is Black", "Back from Detroit" and "Mod Pad" are all hypnotic deep yet organic jams that deserve to be heard! Also included an unreleased extended remix by Glenn Underground of "Termino Mi Amor", a now classic song released by Ricardo on Vega Records from a few years back

Ricardo Miranda - Urbanism [Noble Square]

A1 - Urbanism

A2 - Urbanism (Chiba mix)

B1 - Urbanism (Dcee Eargasmic mix)

B2 - You Are Your Art


Ricardo Miranda's "Urbanism" will be familiar to those smart minds out there who indulged in last year's illuminating Rick Wilhite curated Rush Hour comp Vibes New & Rare Music. Sensing the potential for further exploration, Noble Square embellish the gliding utopian ode to Chicago with two new remixes whilst also slipping in an all new Miranda production for good measure. Miranda himself remixes the track as part of the collaborative Chiba project with Argentinean Hernan Cronner which realigns the track down an overtly muggy outer galactic Detroit electro path, with urgent stabs matched by the relentless march of drum machines in full effect. In contrast, Eargasmic's Daryl Cura opts for a subaqueous rattle, with the swathes of emotive chords on an upwards bent - furthermore the gradual interweaving of a hypnotic synth wiggle truly impresses!

Ricardo Miranda - Thank You Chicago [Reincarnation]

A1 - Delayed Reactions

A2 - Thank U Chicago FX

B1 -Thank You Chicago

B2 - Thank U Chicago Dub


Chicago based Ricardo Miranda joins the Reincarnation family with a deep deep EP. ‘Delayed Reactions’ is a long journey with deep subtle yet round sound and killer piano licks, ‘Thank You Chicago’ is Ricardo’s homage to the Chicago house masters.

Ricardo Miranda - Floorwax [Hour House Is Your Rush]

A - Floorwax

B - Redline

'Floorwax' urges us to do the damn thing, assuming that he leaves us no choice but to slam dance to this hypnotic acid work out, which reminds us slighly of earlier DJ Funk material. 'Redline' further explores the boundaries of acid house originale. It starts out with just drums and a pulsating acid line, but halfway through a utopian string line eases in and shows us the way to the promised land.Classic Chicago house!

Deep Raw & Real Part 4 - Quintessentials

01 - Toby Tobias - Love Papers
02 - NO MILK - Bubble People
03 - Marcello Napoletano - All My Things
04 - Ricardo Miranda - Rush Hour

Quintessentials again invited some hot producers for some deep, raw and real tunes and the result is a fine mixture of contemporary global house music. Part 4 features Toby Tobias,No Milk,Marcello Napoletano and Ricardo Miranda.