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Kenneth Bager has long been a trusted tastemaker in the world of dance music and his latest instalment, My House Is Yours Vol. 2 on Music For Dreams, shows exactly why. Much like last year's first volume, this compilation gathers twenty carefully curated house tracks that stretch the genre's boundaries.
Take Boogie Rookie's 'First We Take Manhattan'. which cleverly reworks the DNA of classic New York house and disco while weaving in Cerrone's 'Supernature'. Steen Thottrup's 'Suivez Moi' feels like a long-lost Italo-disco, balancing tribal percussion with eerie organ tones that recall the melodrama of vintage European dance music. Bager's selections thrive on variety. The Black Lake's 'Market Of Golden Fruits' draws on Middle Eastern and South Asian influences, layering exotic influences. Ambala's 'Paradise Dance' drifts in with a Balearic island-house and their signature sound. Meanwhile, Deadbeat's chord-heavy remix of 'Love From Outer Space' delivers pure dub-techno that i dense, meditative and endlessly deep. Dominic Dawson's remix of 'Universal Language' is another classy track picked from the labels recent years. These aren't your fathers house tunes here. What makes My House Is Yours Vol. 2 shine is its ability to move between moods and styles without losing its direction. It's a journey through the genre's many mutations, from disco and Italo to dub and Balearic. True to Bager's vision, these aren't predictable floor-fillers but carefully curated tracks that expand what house can mean.
Kenneth Bager has long been a trusted tastemaker in the world of dance music and his latest instalment, My House Is Yours Vol. 2 on Music For Dreams, shows exactly why. Much like last year's first volume, this compilation gathers twenty carefully curated house tracks that stretch the genre's boundaries.
Take Boogie Rookie's 'First We Take Manhattan'. which cleverly reworks the DNA of classic New York house and disco while weaving in Cerrone's 'Supernature'. Steen Thottrup's 'Suivez Moi' feels like a long-lost Italo-disco, balancing tribal percussion with eerie organ tones that recall the melodrama of vintage European dance music. Bager's selections thrive on variety. The Black Lake's 'Market Of Golden Fruits' draws on Middle Eastern and South Asian influences, layering exotic influences. Ambala's 'Paradise Dance' drifts in with a Balearic island-house and their signature sound. Meanwhile, Deadbeat's chord-heavy remix of 'Love From Outer Space' delivers pure dub-techno that i dense, meditative and endlessly deep. Dominic Dawson's remix of 'Universal Language' is another classy track picked from the labels recent years. These aren't your fathers house tunes here. What makes My House Is Yours Vol. 2 shine is its ability to move between moods and styles without losing its direction. It's a journey through the genre's many mutations, from disco and Italo to dub and Balearic. True to Bager's vision, these aren't predictable floor-fillers but carefully curated tracks that expand what house can mean.