Review: Dan The Drum & Stuart Patterson - UK House Sermon ft. Carmy Love (X-Press 2 Remixes)(F*CLR Records)

Already on the playlists of all the big DJ boys/girls, we now get the X-Press 2 Remixes that give it even more longevity on the dancefloor.

We told you that there would be remixes of the original (see review HERE) but don't think that because to cover has been stripped to a mostly blue palette that this is now the spiritual party to celebrate UK House culture, the stripped 'Wild Pitch' remix but still a sermon; albeit with limited vocals.

You won't need any introduction to X-Press 2 (unless you're really lazy [Ed. see what I did there] so go and check out their remix on F*CLR HERE for Joseph Malik, who's 'variant' album version was recently released - see review HERE) but their 'UK House Sermon (X-Press 2 Give Thanks Remix)' is even more captivating for listens 'again and again'.

Check out the Bandcamp page for vinyl version of the original HERE and the X-Press 2 Remixes (HERE).

Artist: Dan The Drum & Stuart Patterson
Title:  UK House Sermon ft. Carmy Love (X-Press 2 Remixes)
Release date: 2nd May, 2025
Label: F*CLR Records
Cat. No: FCLR038
Format:  Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp

Credits: Dan The Drum: Production, arrangement, composition, percussion.

Stuart Patterson: Lead vocals, lyricist
Carmy Love: Lead vocals
Darren Morris: Production, arrangement, composition, keyboards, Synth Bass, percussion.
X-Press 2: Remixers, drum programming, synths
Mastered by Darren Morris at North Street West studios.

Review: Dan The Drum & Stuart Patterson - UK House Sermon ft. Carmy Love (F*CLR Records)

Dan The Drum & Stuart Patterson are a match made in North London, but don't let that put you off F*CLR's new 'celebration' of house, you could say it's the Sermon from the Clock End or White Hart Lane.

Football allegiances aside, Dan The Drum (who we know from 'JazzCazz' - see review HERE) and Stuart Patterson (Deviant, Faith and best mate of Terry Farley) are a pair that can tell you the history of UK House for hours; but in this case we've got nearly 8 minutes of e-vocal, an instrumental plus 5 more versions.

With label connections, there's UK house originals X-Pres2 on a 'Wild Pitch' remix, 'Give Thanks' Mix before the No' West team get involved (you know Beedle, Wallace and Morris, as seen on Twelve Caesars 'Ride The American Wave' - see review HERE)

The spoken 'London' intro sound pretty pirate radio advert style (authentic) and being a 'sermon', the gospel vocals of Carmy Love (a member of the London House Choir) gives us a classic house line - and if you don't get it, check the No' West Black Market dub or the piano house instrumental.

Closer to CJ Cooper's 'Live Love Give' featuring Robert Owens (see review HERE) but massively different from their last release from a couple of months ago, Accident Machine x Natasha Kitty Katt (see review HERE) but all are great plus the added bonus or trying to spot your younger self on the cover.

It might come out of the North London axis of Finsbury Park to Seven Sisters but the constituency extends way beyond the 'Special Branch' and the UK, a UK House Sermon for the world; summer anthem guarantued.

Check out the Bandcamp page for vinyl version HERE.

Artist: Dan The Drum & Stuart Patterson
Title:  UK House Sermon ft. Carmy Love 
Release date: 18th April, 2025
Label: F*CLR Records
Cat. No: FCLR037
Format:  Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp