This week's first update is online now at Primalrecords.com, where we've gone out of our way to bring you not only 40 new titles to our House, Tech-house, Progressive, Breaks, and Techno catalogs (including one very special promo), but another 15 hot and hard to find restock titles that we know you'll want to check out. More on that later.

In the meantime, here's this week's primary hitlist:

DJ ALI "My Personal Opinion" EP Tilted (Promo) [House, Tech-house] Rising star DJ Ali contributes this week's exclusive promo with the latest release from Seattle's veteran Tilted label. As is the Tilted aesthetic, "My Personal Opinion" explores Ali's deeper side, bearing a chunky loose groove underneath an introspective spoken word and a flurry of warm chord stabs. "My Personal Dub" takes the flip into a harder, uptempo territory, reclaiming the vocals as sparse effects and bringing the bassline out into the forefront for late night dancefloor revelry. Confirmed DJ support from Derrick Carter and Doc Martin might give you a clue as to what you're in for here. Excellent stuff.

www.tiltedrecords.com

PC SYNERGY "Realize (Original & Brett Johnson Mxs) / Lowtide (Original and Vernon & Dacosta Mxs)" Explicit Soul [House, Tech-house] The first release for Explicit Soul Recordings pulls no punches. In addition to two brand new tracks from Florida house heroes PC Synergy (Imperial Dub, Robsoul), we've got two remixes on deck from the likes of Brett Johnson and label heads Vernon & Dacosta. The result? PC Synergy hand in the deep and jazzy "Realize," alongside "Lowtide," a raw and funky dub excursion, while Brett Johnson takes the Chicago route for a deeper slice of boompty and Vernon & Dacosta make a return visit to the sound of their latest for Robsoul--quirky, bass-heavy, techy house music.

S.W.A.T. "House Arrest" EP Robsoul [House, Tech-house] Speaking of Robsoul, our good friend Phil Weeks has a new release under his belt this week. This time around, Weeks signs up San Francisco legend DJ Rasoul for a brand new three-tracker from his S.W.A.T. crew. Hot on the heels of their massive outings on Tweekin' and Nightshift, S.W.A.T. pump out more dirty SF spirit: "Play That Beat," a rugged MPC swing-styled cut, is no doubt the standout cut here, but "Heat" still burns with its sampladelic bleep-and-cut vision and "Hustler" harks back to some classic Rasoul beat juggling for the heads.

www.robsoulrecordings.com

SEAN THOMAS "Living Music Pt. 2 EP" Sound Movement [House] I know little about Sean Thomas except that he lives in Philadelphia and I've had another one of his records in my crate for longer than I can remember. Living Music Pt. 2 is quite simply one of the best proper house records you'll hear this summer: Lush, but funky and stylish, Thomas takes his cue from Philly peers like Pete Moss or King Britt, but infuses a West Coast vibe not JT Donaldson or Lance Desardi. My favorite cut here is "Upchange," a bottom-heavy deep houser that recalls the early sophisticated sound of Nuphonic without the pretense. It'll sound as good in your house as it will in the clubs.

Also in this week is new remix and production work from Chab, Depeche Mode vocalist David Gahan (remixed by Lexicon Avenue and Junkie XL!), Blackwatch, Sphere, Cpen & JT Donaldson, Djinxx, David Duriez, Greenskeepers, Martin Solveig, Chateau Flight, Subway Baby, Rick Pier O'Neil, and much more.

New label output from Cyber, Late Night Essentials, Garbage, Brique Rouge, G-Swing, Serial, Mangusta, Versatile, Africanism, Shinichi, Harlem, Minimal, Whoop, Dirty Blue, Mob Recordings, Silver Network, and many more is also in.

And restocks: First and foremost, we've managed to restock a limited amount of copies of Wally Callerio's debut artist album for Dufflebag on white label only! Still no idea on the official release date for this one, but we've got it back in. If you missed it the first time, you will not want to sleep on this now.

We've also restocked the entire Dufflebag catalog, including hard-to-find music from JT Donaldson, Lance Desardi, Wally Callerio, Natural Rhythm, and more. Also restocked are handpicked titles from the Bluem and Life Music catalogs as well as a clutch of rare copies of Natural Rhythm's fantastic debut for Serious Sounds. Never heard of it? You're probably not the only one.

More to come this week, including the second half of our monster restock including hot and in-demand titles from Doubledown, Seasons, and Siesta to name a few. Until then, be good!

(Norman Arenas)