While much of Bristol has caught the house music bug over the last two years, Applepips has remained, for the most part, a resolutely 140bpm affair.

Clearly that’s not for lack of love: label head Appleblim’s sets and productions are pretty much straight up deep house these days, finding more in common with, say, the Futureboogie crew than Bristol’s soundsystem heritage.

It’s with a slight sense of inevitability, then, that man of the moment October enters the fray with a 12”  of muscular deep house in collaboration with Borai. ‘Didn’t Mean To’ is a blissful slo-mo jam haloed with dreamy synth pads and birdsong, disrupted by a stuttering clap pattern before regrouping around its creamy-smooth bassline. ‘Palmarosa’ takes things more uptempo, though it’s still festooned with lush detail and padded with the kind of warm, tactile distortion that belies the use of analogue gear. A record seemingly tailor-made for a terrace party sunrise.


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