Few people are onto great records as quickly as a great record store.
Phonica’s end of year lists are always a treasure trove for undersung gems, so we realised we ought to just give the shop’s learned staff their own slot on FACT. Every Saturday, the team behind the counter at the Soho institution select five vinyl records you should pick up this week.
JACK LATHAM (JAM CITY) / DANIEL SWAN
‘Lux Laze’ 10″
(Utter)
Utter debuts with the score for Lux Laze that Jack Latham turned in shortly after the first Jam City singles. Lush lazers cut through layers of dystopian sci-fi.
NEW YORK EDITS
‘New York Edits 5’ 12″
(White label)
The fifth in a series of mysterious white labels by a “legendary NY record store owner” from his “personal stash” of club-ready disco edits.
S.A.M & THE NAFF ARKESTRA
Delaphine 005
(Delaphine)
Nothing naff here, just two cuts of jazzy deep house improvisations by Samuel André Madsen, Lazare Hoche and Pierre Naffah.
DAN WHITE
Off Bluff EP
(Butter Sessions)
Melbourne’s Dan White returns with a three-tracker with something for everyone: an 11-minute junglist epic, a 4×4 freakout and a blissed-out comedown.
KERRI CHANDLER / EARTH PEOPLE / JEROME SYDENHAM
Leads & Bites Vol. 2
(Ibadan)
Jerome Sydenham remixes two Kerri Chandler classics and jams with Tyree Cooper, Eric D. Clark and Thomas Schaben across four cuts of divine house music.