A lot of people never reached further than that Carl Craig mix of Theo Parrish’s “Falling Up” (a still heavily requested tune), but the Detroit Beatdown series has got a lot more to offer than that. The second volume should drop soon with  3 EP’s already out in the shops. And there’s some nuggets on them. We’ve been playing lots of tracks from it in our sets and radio show last few months.

Always deep, raw and soulful, always fresh, always surprising. Although it all sounds definitely Detroit it never sounds formulaic nor are the songs clones of one another. It goes from midtempo vocal grooves to funked up electro to techy House music. But always with that motor city flavour. The guys behind this are Mike Clark, Norm Talley and Delano Smith, together with the ever fantastic Third Ear label. Disco Dalglish met Mike “Agent X” Clark this summer in Detroit. Seeing the man at work in his home town and meeting some of the local heads down there. Hopefully this results in some more cats from the D paying Belgium a visit to spin some records.

More info about Mike Clark and a mix from the man on the Restless Soul podcast.

Go out and collect all Detroit Beatdown releases. They’re all good. And dig a little deeper and see what other things the featured artists have produced. It’s worth the effort.