First of all, thanks so much for the overwhelming response to the latest Primal family releases. Both PR2 Recordings' Mr. Barcode EP and Minority Music's Phil Weeks EP have been receiving a massive amount of support from you guys on promo; full release for both these records won't go down for more than a month, so get your head start here at Primalrecords.com (and only here!).

In the meantime, this week's first new batch of releases are online now. Let's take a quick peek at a few of the highlights:

BRETT JOHNSON feat. DAVE BARKER "It Was You" (JT Donaldson and Brett Johnson Rmxs) / "Welcome" (Single Dub) Seasons [House, Tech-house] First of all, let me point something out that we just figured out when this record came in. If you've been collecting all the latest Brett Johnson records—his fantastic album and all of its singles--put all the picture sleeves together like a puzzle. Voila! Instant Brett Johnson portrait. Pretty cool. Thankfully, the music inside is even cooler: Johnson's latest single features a strange re-rub of "It Was You" that you can easily play pitched up on 33 or pitched down on 45. Sound crazy? It is. Meanwhile, JT Donaldson takes the remix helm for one of his most memorable mixes ever. Living in Chicago is having an effect on this former West Coast producer, going back to that live bass feel of early Undercover Agency and rockin' the horns like it was Monday night at Red Dog. A feel-good track if we ever heard one.

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CIRCULATION "Tangerine" Circulation [House, Tech-house, Progressive] In all honesty, Circulation kinda lost me when they took a detour into proper progressive house. Not because it wasn't good in and of itself, but because what made so many of their early records so great was the fact that record store guys like me used to fight over where to file them: House? Could be. Techno? Kinda. Progressive? Could be that, too. Disco even? You bet. The Circulation sound was a unique blend of all these things; it was a rich aural appreciation of dance music as a whole. So let's hear it for "Tangerine"—an unbeatable return to form. Techy house with a bouncy disco bass-line, minimal techno pads, and a hypnotic progressive layout? God bless 'em. This is house music without borders. Hear for yourself.

HAROLD HEATH "Can You Feel" (Original and Grant Dell & Bob De Rosa Mxs) Uhuru Beats [House, Tribal, Tech-house] Grant Dell's Uhuru Beats label takes on up-and-comer Harold Heath for a follow-up to his excellent release on Souldoubt's Freaked imprint. "Can You Feel" is a crucial UK tech-house joint with a slight percussive bent and a slew of rapturous FX perfect for peak-time. On the flip, Dell and Bob De Rosa tighten things up for deeper, dubbier rub whose spoken word section recalls King Britt & Ursula Rucker's "Supernatural" with excellent results. Either way around it, this is solid London business, through and through.

Also new this week is remix and production work from Kenny Hawkes, Bushwacka!, Gideon Jackson, DJ Remy, Swain & Snell, Wally Lopez, Tony Thomas, Fafa Monteco, Merrick Brown, BLIM, and more.

New label output from Terry Francis's Eye 4 Sound, Oblong, Combined Forces, Hypnotic, Plastica, Resident, and others is also in.

And don't forget: Full release copies of Olivier Desmet & Chuck Diesel's original mixes of "For You" are available now. If you missed this one on white, now's your chance.

More to come. Until then, be good!

(Norman Arenas)