Chris Harris & Dominic Martin - Jazzmag EP

Catalogue Number: LMD019
Release Date: February 2008

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A1: Original Mix
A2: James Curd Remix
B1: Strakes & Dafeet Remix
B2: Neil Bainbridge Interpretation

Lost My Dog approach their third birthday having built up a great reputation in underground house circles.  Refusing to be pigeon-holed into any specific sub genre of house music, Lost My Dog releases range from deep house grooves, through Chicago influenced jackers, to acid and tech house floor rockers. Each release is aimed at pushing the label forward into new territory, releasing new sounds while always maintaining a high level of quality control. As such they've become one of those labels that DJs will always listen to, but never know exactly what's in store.

As the label continues to go from strength to strength only one problem appears to still exist; finding the damn dog!

Lost My Dog kick start their 2008 schedule with a release from two of the hottest producers currently in the jacking house scene - Chris Harris and Dominic Martin.

For eight years Chris Harris was label manager for the Glasgow label Solemusic and head of A&R for its sister label Tronicsole bringing artists such as Swirl People, Phil Asher, DJQ, Inland Knights and Jay Tripwire on-board.  In 2004 he left to pursue pastures new with the Jazz/Funk label, Buff Records.  Chris is a qualified audio engineer and long standing solo producer.  Currently his productions can be found under various guises on labels such as Tronicsole, Brique Rouge, Underwater, Random House, Om Records and Mettle Music.

Also from Glasgow, Dominic Martin has been DJing for over 12 years and in that time has played alongside some of the industry's top spinners.  On the studio front, Dom produces under 2 monikers: Dominic Martin and Domsko. As Dominic Martin his tracks reflect the influences of black soulful music, jazzy US, deep and funky house, while the Domsko tracks showcase his harder, electronic white-boy leanings.  2007 was a breakthrough year for Dom, signing solo tracks to prestigious labels including Kingdom Kome, Tronicsole and SECND.

The big success stories have been the few releases the pair have written and produced together.  Their debut EP for Nordic Trax received huge support and was a mainstay in the sets of Derrick Carter throughout 2007 as well as being licensed to DJ Heather's 'Om Summer Sessions 2' CD.  Their Soulgroove EP was released at the end of 2007 on US label Guesthouse to similar acclaim and plays from the genre's top dogs.

Remixes come from Chicago based James Curd who is currently causing huge waves with his EPs and remixes for Drop, Myna, Alphabet and his own Greenskeepers label.  Lost My Dog's Strakes & Dafeet team up again for their 4th remix for the label and Shindig resident Neil Bainbridge completes the release fresh from work for labels including Kolour, 3am and Movim.

Dominic Martin has a forthcoming solo release on Lost My Dog (LMD021) entitled 'Touch of Soul' which has been remixed by fellow Scot and house-legend Milton Jackson.  The single, also remixed by Pete Dafeet, will be in April.

Magazine Reviews

iDJ - 4/5
A Strictly Scottish affair on Lost My Dog as ex-Solemusic big cheese Harris teams up with his pal Martin.  At first I wasn't blown away, but things get interesting about two minutes in with some cheeky old skool stabs and plenty of sharp well-placed fills.  Things get even better as James Curd provides a New Orleans-flavoured rub that's bound to cause major silliness on all your floors.  Seek and support!

Our House Mag
As well as being a vinyl fiend I'm an avid collector of the old Jazzmag, so this caused much excitement when landing on my door mat from the incompetent k9 keepers from Middlesbrough. Chris Harris needs no introduction to the scene, as well as being an established solo producer for many years he also held the label manager's post for Glasgow's Solemusic and A&R for little sister Tronicsole for 8 years, home to Geoff M & Stevie Sole Middleton. Dominic, also from Glasgow has been spinning for over a decade and he too is no stranger to the desk either, having notched up various releases, however it wasn't until last year after dropping EP's off at Nordic and Guesthouse that the pair became more widely known with like minded jackers. The original is proper new school jack, with some ace smoky vocal snippets, think The Sound Republic, Natural Rhythm and we are on the money, put it this way Primal will sell shit loads! James Curd of Greenskeepers fame adds his usual swing thing but I can't help feel it's a bit too much for my lugs these days and I'm just not feeling it. LMD's top boys Strakes & Dafeet turn out a decent number by beefing up the drums, adding depth and enabling the track to be more versatile and give it some heads down flavour as does Shindig's Neil Bainbridge, his version is right up there with the best of them and this makes me think he must be a really good DJ, he creates a great, slightly wonky early doors or late night affair. Mustard!

DJ Mag – 5/5
Heavily disguised jazz samples in some of the mixes bleat out very catchy hooks, especially on the essential ‘Original Mix’.  The underlying trait of most of the four mixes here is the addictive basslines that spew out funk all over the shop and there is enough funk goin’ on in that ‘Original Mix’ alone to raise James Brown from the dead.  Real dirty.
 
DJ Mag – 3.5/5
Harris and Martin crank up some boompty vibes, cinematic spoken word snatches bouncing off crisp beats and minimal acid squiggles with a little latter day electro flourish.  Strakes and Dafeet provide the more rambling, organic vibe and Neil Bainbridge a deeper loungey thing, but the real star is James Curd’s mix, a humdinger of a groove that introduces a catchy as hell filtered high-level bassline and tinny piano and jazz horns sample driven by a Green Velvet sensibility.

DJ Reactions

Mark Farina
This is excellent, charted #2

Inland Knights
Orig and James Curd for us. Great!

Laurent Garnier
Full of different mixes for different parts of the night. It's all great quality stuff.

Onionz
Neil spanked it! Great to hear something new.

Phil Weeks
Sounds good!

Joshua Iz
Playing Original and Neil Bainbridge remix. Neil's mix reminds me of '93-94 detroit tracks! Solid.

Da Sunlounge
What a great EP! Getting some action.

Harold Heath
Original is a full fat freakout! well into this!

Bryan Jones
James Curd remix is my favorite thing he's ever done.

James Flavour/Dirt Crew
Strakes & Dafeet mix is great.

Mazi
Diggin the Strakes & Dafeet and the Bainbridge versions...tight beats with moody music. I'm all over 'em.

Kamisshake
Strakes & Dafeet mix is wicked deep material.

Kaskade
Excellent

Lee Mortimer
Neil Bainbridge mix hits the spot!

Swirl People
Like the James Curd mix

James Talk
Neil's mix is really good!

Massimo DaCosta
Really like James Curd's mix. Funky as hell!

Special Interest
What a great range of tracks, really in to this!

DJ Mes
Excellent, Chris & Dom can do no wrong!

Nacho Marco
Love these tracks. Original is fave!

Giom
This is a wicked package!

Elliot Eastwick
Solid. Like super duper solid!!

Blacksoul
Original mix is sick!! And again proven duo Strakes & Dafeet!

Radio Support

Danceradio, Greece (StereoK)
MixTheGroove, UK (Steve Parr)
Protonradio / DIFM, USA (Harry Avers)
WHCR 90.3 FM (Michael Stukes)
Topradio, Belgium (Hans Temmerman)
Proton Radio, USA (Stefan Anion)
Pushfm, UK (DJ Jam)
TEAMtalk broadcast, UK (Nolan Kane)
Radio 1, UK (Nico De Ceglia)
Ministry Radio, UK (Raymundo Rodriguez)
BBC N. Ireland (Paul Hamill)
209 Radio, UK (Kristoff)
United Colors Of House, UK (Dean Facer)
Radio Eskilstuna, Sweden (Ingela Borgefjord)
Beat 102-103 FM, Ireland (Ray Colclough)
Proton/Frisky Radio, USA (Royal Sapien)
ZipFM, Lithuania (Jonas & Jovani)
XFM, Scotland (Stevie Sole)
Myhouse-yourhouse, UK (Steve Arnell)

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