CITY FLY RECORDS 001 ‘VISIONS EP’ - Released on 31st May '11
Since its inception over 6 years ago, Leicester-based club night City Fly has concocted an alchemy of sounds that have drenched the city in the deeper, soulful and techier shades of house – simultaneously revitalising the city’s nightscape and gaining a reputation as being one of the finest underground house nights in The Midlands. Not content in hosting some of the finest purveyors of house including Motor City Drum Ensemble, Space Dimension Controller, Red Rack’em, Boe Recordings’ Ben Parkinson and Secretsundaze’s Giles Smith, City Fly has metamorphosed into an all-encompassing club brand, incorporating both national and international residencies and a bi-weekly radio show – City Fly Radio on
www.myhouse-yourhouse.net. Now expanding their vision further, City Fly HQ promises to be a nexus of activity over the coming months with the birth of their new label, City Fly Records.
Wanting to showcase the sounds synonymous with their ethos, City Fly have fully represented the house spectrum with their debut ‘Visions EP' release – featuring not one but four artists to give a varying flavour to the house palette...
Written by - Aiden d'Araujo
Support from.....
6th Borough Project – “quality deep tackle! All cuts sounding nice. Really like the James Johnston” 8/10
Adam Shelton (Below/One Records) – “REALLY DIGGIN THIS!! grand job on the first e.p. really nice! :)
Alex Agore - “This is sick”
Andrew Grant (Circo Loco) – “think it over.....very kool” 8/10
Arnaud Le Texier - Love the basic soul unit!!! 7/10
Audiofly – “Love Move Forward....super Solid....the whole EP is great tho...NIce Nice” 8/10
Bearweasel – “fucking ace - loving all four!” 9/10
Brawther – “I have extremists taste when it comes to house, this made it with flying colours”
Danny Tenaglia – “thanks!!!” 9/10
Deetron – “"I played Illusion remix at Panoramabar in Berlin, sounded amazing!"
Deymare – “great tunes, my favourite being james johnstons's track” 8/10
DJ Spinna – “I like this”
Ekkohaus – “Really nice sound.....lovin all the tracks.....thumbs up” 9/10
Ethyl – “Class, Really Solid EP”
Franck Roger – “tone control for me is good” 7/10
Giom – “Ouch!! James Johnston has just done what I believe is his finest track yet, and then YSE, well I love and play everything he does so there you go. Awesome work guys, full support” 8/10
Groove Armada – “this is brilliant. love all the trax, tho guess most likely to play out YSE its all right on the money” 9/10
Hector Moralez – “James Johnston – Move Forward, nice old school sounding jam!”
Iron Curtis – “hey guys, thanks for sending this! really hard to choose a fav in here. all over great tracks. but I guess If I'll have to: Tone Control's Illusion. Nice one !!” 7/10
Jason Hodges – “what an EP...Move Forward is the cut!!” 10/10
Jon Cutler – “Feeling !!! Move Forward and Think It Over.” 7/10
Joshua Heath – “YSE alll the way ;-)” 7/10
Kolour Recordings – “what a blinding first start for yet another outlet of proper quality house music. we're big fans of james and YSE and of course they both delivered in top form on this one. tone control and BSU joints definitely qualify the diversity and make everything come together beautifully for what is sure to be a smash hit first release for my boy jonna and the gang at city fly. good stuff guys and nothing but the upmost support from your pals at kolour.” 8/10
Luke Solomun – “great package...full support” 7/10
Moodymanc – “nice release...JJ in particular is right up my street!” 8/10
Motor City Drum Ensemble – “Loves the tracks, will support”
Nacho Marco – “I love It”
Onionz – “Jammin” 8/10
Osunlade – “Diggin This”
Pablo Valentino – “Very Nice release! Will play and support” 9/10
Pete Dafeet (Lost My Dog) – “Whenever I play with you guys you play dope music (memories of Egg last September), so no surprise this record is fantastic... though with YSE on the sticker it was always going to be!” 9/10
Red Rack’em – “A great start for the Cityfly boys with a mixed vibe four tracker featuring some rising stars and more established names. Full support in the clubs and on the radio from me. Great A+R on this one - can't wait for number 2.” 9/10
Scope – “all tracks are nice.. but the james johnston and basic soul unit are my picks :)” 8/10
Shur-I-Kan – “James Johnston mix moving it for me. But all mixes are cool” 7/10
Slam – “all good trax - will play” 7/10
Soul Minority – “James Johnston's track is wicked!!!” 7/10
The Revenge – “Strong package guys ... keep it up! 8/10
Ekkohaus – “Really nice sound.....lovin all the tracks.....thumbs up” 9/10
Willie Graff – “Very nice ep from very nice artists! All the tracks have something special.Will play these trax for sure.” 8/10
released December 16, 2015
