Hotmood - Mr. Funkyman

If you like your deep house served with a hefty dose of funk and a twist of jazz, then these two tracks from Mexican producer Hotmood should be right up your street. The vaguely Sneak-y title track is as joyous an excursion into the heart of jazz piano riffery as you’ll hear all week, its virtuoso ivory licks sitting atop smooth-rollin’ house beats and augmented by periodic “yes Mr Funkyman!” vocal shouts. The accompanying ‘Clean Cuts’ is a sparser affair that sports snatches of southern soul-style male vocal – it’s plenty playable but perhaps one for the warm-up, whereas ‘Mr Funkyman’ has “peaktime” written all over it.