While Berlin obviously isn’t defined by dark rooms and brutalist 4/4, it’s still heartening to receive a fresh package from Germany’s cultural capital that falls outside of techno’s cold grip. The parcel in question is new from the Splendor & Squalor lads (Brame and Hamo) – a pair originally hailing from Ireland, but now taking firm root in Berlin.

Hamo‘s EP ‘The Cotton Club’ is the label’s second out the traps, after a weighty first from the duo with remix chops from Session Victim. It’s music you can gladly file next to Max Graef, Glenn Astro and their crew’s brand of house(-not-house). Vinyl crackle and sighing Rhodes lines abound, all beefed up with low-slung kicks and crafty sampling. Our pick of the litter is the silk-smooth title track: a wonderfully deep house jam with a hip-hop soul. Push play and glide.

Grip the whole thing here on September 25th.