Takesu

Four years on from his last outing, Chiba-based producer Takesu returns to action, this time via the offshoot label of Tokyo music store Dotei Records. Recalling a mix of classic Japense deep house and the more spacey, hypnotic end of the tech-house spectrum, Takesu first offers up the hypnotic and slowly shifting 'The Easy Way', before doffing a cap to the warmth, colour and nostalgia of Soichi Terada on the picturesque 'Az One'. 'Fools Never Die' is a restless chunk of atmospheric and locked-in deep house, while 'Second Store' is summery, sun-splashed and pleasingly nostalgic, referencing early 90s Italo-house and wide-eyed Japanese deep house from the same period.

• 1 The Easy Way
• 2 Az One
• 3 Fools Never Die
• 4 Second Straw