DIAL #212 061 92

"YOUTH sift four immaculate deep house cuts from Duster Valentine, primed for the dancers and DJs - a timeless, effortlessly meticulous homage to late ‘80s/early ‘90s form and function.

In pursuit of a full, killer tape dropped at the peak of summer ’25, the ‘DIAL #212 061 92’ edits land as a coincidental epitaph to YOUTH’s Stockport bar MØ6B, which shut doors this weekend after a short but beloved run. The four tracks are precisely the sort of classic, all-roads-lead-back-to-the-Haç cuts the bar plated up, conserving a heritage of YOUTH’s links with fabled club night meandyou., and Duster Valentine’s deep roots in Manchester’s pivotal club history.

Cues are worn-on-sleeve from the classic aesthetic to the track titles, cooking up blends of classic, imported Detroit, Chi, NYC, and Italo house ingredients that made up Duster Valentine’s formative club diet and fed forward into his work on a secretive edits label, and much more. A case in point is ‘Boost tha midz’, rolling out swaggering Nu Groove-type bass, nagging arps and shiver-jaw vox owing to the Burrell Brothers via flashbacks to peaking, sweaty hours in the rainy city.

His ‘Rowetta (with Roman)’ continues to salute a proper early NYC-via-Whitworth St. flex with killer congas synced to rave and diva stabs for the dancers with something to show - think AGCG x 808 State via the type of gear DJ Sprinkles played BITD - while ‘Let You Go’ hits a shade tuffer on a heads-down buck charged with Joey Beltram horsepower, and ‘Baby in the Room’ gives it some proper Italo house peacockery for haughty stompers. 

IYKYK!"

-Boomkat