A week or so ago I wrote this piece about how it can be awesome when you finally get to figure out what that particularly swell tune was that you’d heard out and about or on a bunch of radio shows/online mixes. Well, the same thing happened here, with the New Orleans based producer Jim-E Stack. It’s only after the fact – after the exchange of third party emails and an certain agreement was made – that it finally twigged that he’s the dude behind that ‘Lemme’ song; another one of those tracks that’s real simple in terms of its melody but super infectious when you get to hear it in the right space.

It’s on flip of the second release that’s come out on Good Years, the label co-run by Rinse FM DJ and YoYo promoter, Seb Chew – with the first being The Patience EP by Lil Silva. ‘Lemme’ in particular definitely shares that similar post-funky (yeah, I went there: big woop, wanna fight about it?) direction with his label mate – being that it’s of that house tempo, is powered by repetition, a nagging kind of main riff and lots of snares that cut through any mix you make with it. The other two tracks on the Come Between EP (namely the title track and ‘3rd Soul’) prove that Stack’s work can happily exist alongside a label with such a staunch a direction as Night Slugs, given how focused it is on working a dancefloor and those soaring kind of synth lines. It’s probably a testament to the influence of music like theirs and their associated artists that Stack’s work comes out sounding so smoothed and so ready.

All of Stack’s tunes are pure energy. Built of the specific influences he intersects with in his hometown they’re made specifically to provoke movement and it’s a vital trait that SR Mix #115 shares dutifully, as Jim-E Stack explores the spaces between artists like Dark Sky and A$AP Rocky and Kingdom and Lil Wayne…

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Circle Children – Zulu (Change Mix)
Jim-E Stack – Lemme
Pearson Sound – Let Me See Refix
Vjuan Allure ft. Kevin Monolo Blahnik – Brrrrrrrrrr Work With Drops
Jim-E Stack – 3rd Soul
R.I.P Productions – Oh Baby
Gypsymen – New Gypsy
Floyd Campbell – Multipass
Kingdom – Stalker Ha
Switch – I Still Love You (Jim-E Stack Darq Edit)
Jim-E Stack – Come Between
Lil Silva – Shutter
Miracle – We Ain’t Scared
Dha Real Jahkz – No Hands
DJ Fresh – Night Off
DJ Sliink – Sure Thing
Dark Sky – Neon
DJ Funeral – Last Breath
Sibian & Faun – I’m Sorry
ASAP Rocky – Peso
Low Deep – Down Like That
Lil Wayne – Two Shots
Black & Mild – Beanee Weenee
Terius Nash – Wake Me When It’s Over (Nadus Remix)

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