Mellow Man - Underground

Peppermint Jam continues to mine the expansive back catalogue of Andreas Mark AKA Mellow Man, here delivering a first digital release of the producer’s 1996 four-tracker The Underground Club EP (here retitled Underground). What we get is classic European house that proudly displays its disco, U.S garage and “proper deep house” influences, with Marek offering up sweaty, organ-rich, bass-heavy weightiness (‘Bee Happy’); happy-go-lucky U.S house cheeriness (‘Party Time’, with its not-so-subtle disco samples, undulating bassline and twinkling piano solos); deep-but-chunky loop house (the jazzy guitar licks, bouncy electric pianos and low-slung bass of ‘Freaky Thang’); and joyously rubbery deep house/electro/boogie fusion (‘Gangster Groove’).