JOHNICK – THE JOHNICK COLLECTION PART 2

Last year, Nicholas Palermo Jr and Johnny ‘D’ DeMairo launched a new series of retrospective releases featuring choice gems originally released on the latter’s Henry Street Music label in the 1990s and early 2000s. Volume two in the series naturally contains some choice, remastered gems, not least the warming, sax-sporting deep house bounce of 2001 classic ‘Wild Kingdom’, which is also presented in two new versions from Nico Lahs: the deeper, slower and more emotive ‘2022 Vision’, and the ultra-deep, subtly jazz-funk-flecked ‘U-Fit Mix’, which bobs along at a pleasingly head-nodding tempo. Elsewhere, there’s another chance to savour 1999’s smooth, disco-tinged ‘The Blow’ and the sweaty, bumpy brilliant of 1998’s ‘Smoke’, an excitement-packed loop jam.