lee douglas

Lee Douglas is currently rocking our DJ sets pretty much every week. He’s signed to Rong music, which also hosts such familiar names as Munk, Quiet Village and Chicken Lips. It began with “New York Story”: a glorious palette of muted bass beats and delicately soaring synth harmonies. It grows, blooming into some proper danceable rolling, thumping disco-ness.

Lee Douglas - New York Story

“Our Song” is also, great. It’s a lot faster (clocking in at 130ish bpm) but it doesnt feel that fast really. It sounds a lot more like vintage disco, due to the careering wah-wah melody with added reverb and the vocals that break out mirroring the melody about five minutes in.

Lee Douglas - Our Song 

He’s also remixed DFA’s Shocking Pinks. It’s a step in a different direction from the previous two tracks, with a fairly industrial percussive groove. As is the recent remix of The Juan Maclean’s “Happy House”: a steady minimal groove with echoing vocals and one of those great minimal break-outs that peak just enough for you to get warm and happy inside.

Shocking Pinks - Cut Out (Lee Douglas Mix)

The Juan Maclean - Happy House (Lee Douglas Mix)

You can buy all these things and some others too, through Phonica and Boomkat (who also have a FLAC release of New York Story available for download.)