It certainly helps the variety by having a top set of friends. Old Fly favourites like Domu, Trevor Loveys and Henrik Schwarz have worked on ‘their’ tracks. It’s taken Mr. Rose almost three years to get this project to this stage but he’s also been busy as one half of Induceve (check ‘Time To Begin’ if you get the chance) and working at labels Front Room Recordings, Made to Play & Loungin’ Recordings. The other half of Induceve is David Taylor (Solid Groove), which you would think in itself guarantees the phone numbers of loads of potential musical partners.

The Solid Groove/Jamie Anderson collab is ‘Nice & Slow’. It has already been out on 12” and you definitely can “dance to the music nice and slow.” And keep them dancing shoes on for the Domu joint, ‘Knock / Knock’. As ever, Mr Stanton is on top form, stuttering with bugz and a calmed brokenness, no doubt Jesse’s influence there.

The previously mentioned Induceve track was brought to my attention by the Henrik Schwarz remix. Brilliant choice to get ‘Chicago’ Schwarz in on this project for ‘Stop, Look & Listen’. The house equivalent of ‘Colours Impressions’ as it slowly builds on the simple tribal beat. Synth waves weave in and out with keyboard stabs and muted drums; think of a minimal electronic Fela Kuti. Apparently, it took six hours to record as Jesse and Henrik took turns to tweak the track ‘live’ in a stop, look and listen type way. Another great finish and definitely one that requires your full attention all the way through.

Whilst ‘Stop, Look & Listen’ is potential classic, this is such a solid album throughout including none other than Rob “production skills are second to none” Mello. ‘Do Ya Wanna’ is closer to Peng Peng while it is no surprise that ‘The Conversation’ with Felix Hopkins (Atlantic Fusion) is an old skool NYC tribute. And talking of old skool, ‘You May Think’ is a big powerful soulful house tune co-written with Jamie Odell (check out The Bays) and features Pete Simpson who has a ‘Dwight Trible’ purity in his voice.

What can/hasn’t been done with a track called ‘Work It Out’? No better place to go than Berlin to find out with Sygaire (aka Roskow Kretschmann of Jazzanova). In fact, he’s got some previous on ‘obvious’ titles (see ‘Got To Be There’ and ‘In Your Groove’ on Sonar Kollective) and they’ve taken a ‘We Do What We Do’ approach and work it out they do.

‘Drop What Your Doing!’ is a hypnotic groove with tape looping goings on with lots on top to keep it interesting. Loveys gets in on the next track also alongside the boss of Front Room Recordings, Chris Belsey. ‘The Source’ is similar in groove with what sounds like bits of Mathew Herbert edits dropped in.

There’s a second sampler 12” just come out with new mixes of ‘Stop Look & Listen’ plus ‘Do Ya Wanna’ and ‘The Source’ but you’ll also be needing the album. So no “same shit” here and if anyone tells you house is dead, this is proof it isn’t. And just to make Hectic even happier, all this with a geek-visual-friendly cover too!

Hectic Mix nomination: ‘Stop, Look & Listen’ and currently ‘Drop What Your Doing’ but as a bottle, all of them are great.

Reviewed: Jesse Rose - Presents More Than One (Front Room Recordings) Cat. No FRMCD 001 Release date: May 2006
Tracklisting:
1. Jesse Rose Alongside Sygaire - ‘Work It Out’ (8:13)
2. Jesse Rose Alongside Domu - ‘Knock / Knock’ (6:36)
3. Jesse Rose Alongside Rob Mello - ‘Do Ya Wanna’ (5:40)
4. Jesse Rose Alongside Atlantic Fusion - ‘The Conversation’ (5:28)
5. Jesse Rose Alongside Audiomontage - ‘You May Think’ (Audiomontage Mix) (7:00)
6. Jesse Rose Alongside Chris Duckenfield - ‘In The Backroom’ (4:05)
7. Jesse Rose Alongside Jamie Anderson - ‘No Need’ (6:53)
8. Jesse Rose Alongside Trevor Loveys - ‘Drop What Your Doing!’ (5:46)
9. Jesse Rose Alongside Chris Belsey & Trevor Loveys - ‘The Source’ (5:33)
10. Jesse Rose Alongside Solid Groove & Jamie Anderson - ‘Nice & Slow’ (8:04)
11. Jesse Rose Alongside Henrik Schwarz - ‘Stop, Look & Listen’ (Album Version) (13:47)

Links:
www.frontroomrecordings.com
DJ NO. 14/Vol 4 26 April-9th May06; Jesse Rose p12 “The Best - Barclay ‘The Whistler (Dirty Bird)”
Duckbeats-Records
www.sonarkollektiv.de
www.jazzanova.net
www.thebays.comwww.myspace.com/djjamieanderson