Two immaculate chill house productions. One from a London debut act with skateboarding cats in the music video, yes really, and one from a Romanian producer who spent a decade in Africa before coming back to make club-ready electronic music.
RETroMETro – Deep Jive
RETroMETro’s Deep Jive is a London electro-house debut with cyberpunk aesthetics, wonderfully driving synths, and a curious music video featuring cats on skateboards
Deep Jive is a high-energy deep electro house track from London’s RETroMETro, featuring a driving futuristic beat and pulsing synth basslines. Sophisticated yet energetic, characterised by rhythmic swing and a consistent club-ready tempo, it is already attracting interest from rap producers wanting to sample it and from sports media looking for sync opportunities. Influenced by British, French and Dutch house projects, this debut release arrives fully formed and ready for playlists.
Compellingly, the music video concept involves a sci-fi dystopian London with cats on skateboards all wearing RETroMETro Deep Jive T-shirts, no humans, peaceful, serene, all in time and tempo with the music. It is exactly as good as that sounds. RETroMETro also have a TikTok dance challenge running with hashtags deepjive and createyourvibe, and the best routines get included in the full download release video. Get involved while the track is still climbing up the algorithm and into rotation. Essential stuff.
LoopSpeeka – Not This Time
LoopSpeeka’s Not This Time is a fantastic progressive house and UK garage crossover with an origin story that spans two continents and a decade of patience.
Not This Time is a high-energy, optimistic progressive house and UK garage crossover built around a driving groove designed to make you actually move rather than nod. Simple, catchy and anti-overproduction, it’s got that lovely momentum, rhythm and a melody that the best garage-hinted stuff has. It’s got some compelling, club-ready chord movements without ever being clinical, and there is a warmth in the production that comes from genuine musical instinct rather than preset-shopping.
LoopSpeeka is a Romanian producer who spent more than a decade in Africa, a journey that strongly shaped his instinct for groove, rhythm and movement. He started making music on a computer years ago, building ideas whenever he had time, but many remained unfinished due to limited tools. When he upgraded his software and gained access to vocals, he was finally able to complete those long-developed concepts, and Not This Time is the direct result of that long patience and it sounds worth the wait. It’s great.