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

Review: Dan The Drum + Ronnie Turner - JazzCazz ft Emma Noble (Ramrock Red Records)

Trust a serious musicologist 'of the cover' version like Jo Wallace (Ramrock/F*CLR head honcho) to know that the 1980 disco chart buster 'Casanova' by Coffee was not the original version!  

The original tribute to the exploits attributed to Giovanni Jacopo Casanova was sung by Ruby Andrews in 1967 and I bet they'd never have imagined that song re-interpreted as Dan 'The Drum' Spalding and Ronnie Turner have in 2024 with Emma Noble on vocals. It's full of cool 60s Blue Note/Dave Brubeck 'Take Five' swing with Emma's vocals perfect for the jazzification of the lyrics; "Hey boy, your playing days are over". They've even squeezed in a bit of a nod to hip-hop and dub; kinda US3 'Cantaloop' that was just as massive.

We're told there's lots more to come from this Spalding/Turner set up that's going to appeal to BBC 6 Music's obvious candidates like Craig Charles (what did I say on his latest compilation on BBE - see review HERE) and Gilles Peterson - and way beyond.....trust me

Artist: Dan The Drum + Ronnie Turner

Title: JazzCazz ft Emma Noble 

Release date: 26th July, 2024

Label : Ramrock Red Records.

Catalog Number : RRR063

Format :  Digital / Bandcamp