Having spent the best part of ten years behind the helm of the Night Slugs label, and the killer sounds of his L-Vis 1990 moniker, James Connolly revives his Dance System project for this first-rate single for Eats Everything’s Edible label.
If slammin’ house bangers are what you like, then Dance System delivers them in spades. An infectious piano motif and thumping kick shapes the lead track, ‘Please’, which pumps relentlessly, bountiful with playful vocal chops, tension building strings and DJ trickery edits. The gloriously titled ‘Make Funky House Great Again’ certainly makes a damn fine stab at doing just that. A skippy rhythm underpins some dope filter work on the sample, a nod perhaps to the French sounds of Roule/Bangalter, but totally fresh with Dance System’s modern sound stamped all over it.

Key Radio Play:
Annie Mac/BBC Radio 1​ -
Danny Howard/BBC Radio 1​ - 2
Danny Howard/BBC Radio 1​ -
Danny Howard/Nothing Else Matters Radio​ -
Danny Howard/BBC Radio 1​ -

Key Press Coverage:
Mixmag​ - Premiere stream -
FACT​ - Against The Clock feature - NTS Radio​ - Dance System takeover show -
Reprezent/Jaguar​ - Dance System guest mix -
Upfront Beats​