House
August: 15 house releases you need to hear this month
Slamming tunes for your mid-summer blues
Bertha 'Huzzah' (Music For Freaks)
Bertha’s latest release, ‘Huzzah’, features a speech that sounds like Martin Luther King laid over a bumping Chicago groove, and you can picture Gene Farris or Derrick Carter playing it: with its shuffled drum loop and understated keys line, it shifts along without any bells and whistles. Put simply, it’s a great slice of Chi-town grooving house from the Freaks fraternity. Sheffiled’s Thatmanmonkz’ remix, meanwhile, takes the original to a late-night basement.
8/10
