This five track EP for London’s Dogmatik imprint delivers 5 distinct flavours of modern house music from accomplished producers Mark E, Dusky, Stojche, BUBBA and Dimi Wilson.
Having helped shape the career of Maya Jane Coles in it’s early years Dogmatik is a label that has seen growing attention of late and the imprint’s reputation is far from shabby for good reason.

‘Various Artists Part One’ takes in five tracks, each taking in a slightly different view of the increasingly fractured but never dull genre we call house.

The undoubtable headliner of this release, Mark E drops an excitingly urgent number with Horns Of The West, the structure and choice of original sounds lean back to his hit of the year, Call Me. Followed by the classic sounding Tyto Alba from Dusky. Two tracks in and I already knew this VA was going to blow anything else I've heard out of the water. Substance and variety aren't something that usually work well hand in hand. In this case I beg to differ.

Dogmatik regular and Argumento/Tangible Assets boss, Stojche, delivers a hyperactive 909 experience with Distance. A name that surely references the amount of reverb he used in this expansive yet powerful number.

Bubba delivers the goods for me on this record, Keep L.O.V.E is an expert slice of deep house, in a time where many a store are saturated with the so called genre. Very few could pull off a sound as overdone as this, but this track only extends the divide between amateur and professional even more.

Dimi Wilson closes the EP with some bumping, shuffled drum/organ combos a la ‘Oloo’.  The Notorious B.I.G sample is a little bit cliché and perhaps makes this track the weakest of the release. No doubt this will get plenty of play, but compared to the solidity of the rest I just can't sink my teeth into it.

Expect Part Two later in 2012, with heavyweights Alex Arnout (Dogmatik Founder), Gavin Herlihy, Maya Jane Coles to name drop a few.

Dogmatik VA Part One out January 22nd 2012.