This Is Development is now up on iTunes on their main dance page. It's up against the new compilation from the "saviour of electronic dance music" David Guetta.

This showdown is bigger than The Stones Vs The Beatles, Blur Vs Oasis & Biggie Vs Tupac

Support real house music and grab the compilation from iTunes HERE.

This Is Development is available now on Traxsource, check it out HERE.

We do still have a limited number of the 12" sampler up on our bandcamp shop, this includes the download of the 4 tracks on the sampler. Grab one from HERE.

This Is Development...

1. Jamie Finlay Vs Moodymanc - People Circulate (Moodymanc Vocal Mix)

2. Ben Pearce - Hold Me

3. Ethyl & Flori - SK Jr

4. Sarp Yilmaz - Marvinizer

5. BE - Pass It On

6. Roman Fleischer - Can't Get Enough (Death On The Balcony Mix)

7. The True Rebels - True Rebels

8. Tomson feat Diamondancer - Tap the Core

9. Alex Agore - I Got Something

10. James Johnston - Work That Love

11. Atjazz & Yannah Valdevit - Info People (Atjazz Floor Dub)

12. MXM - Shifty

13. Lay-Far - BYRSLF

14. Zed Bias Feat Jenna G - Let Me Change Your Mind

REACTIONS/SUPPORT

Red Rack'Em - Digging the Ben Pearce, Sarp, Lay-Far and MXM tracks most. Strong package!

Tony Humphries - Reminiscing the 90's sounds in Work that love. Very good EP.

Marques Wyatt - Feelin this package

Washerman / Azuni - Exellent Compilation, full spectrum of house vibez, full support!

Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) - Absolutely superb EP....everyone a belter. Will be working my way thru these in the next few weeks/months.

Frank Booker (Sleazy Beats) - "Hard to pick a favourite out of this lot: They're all bloody good! Big support as always, for radio & clubplay.

Kiko Navarro - True and pure house music, thanks for this very good E.P

Groove Assassin - Slammin set of tracks ! On HEAVY rotation !

Sean Mccabe - Great selection of deep tracks. Love it and will support!

Nick Holder - Cool collection here! Thanks for sending!

Rocco - Super nice vibe on True Rebels"

Cottam - Quality package of house music, hard to pick a fav.

Stu Wolf Music - 6 well rounded tracks! Hard to pick a fave.

Thanks for your support over our first 10 releases.

Tom, Andy, Chris and Mike x

Ahead of the "This Is Development..." compilations full release on Monday we thought we'd take the time to get to know some of the artists involved. Next up is Lay-Far

We've loved Lay-Far's music ever since first hearing his tracks on Kev Beadle and Red Rack'Ems excellent radio shows. He delivered a fantastic remix for us on our recent Manuel Sahagun release and we're delighted his beautiful original production BYRSLF will be gracing our compilation.

Lay-Far is also a fantastic DJ with a seriously diverse music collection, check out his brilliant recent mix for Cosmopolyphonic.com HERE

Check out our mini-interview with Moscows rising star below...

Can you tell us a little bit about your background? How did you get into producing electronic music?

Lay-Far - "It all started with hip-hop culture. At the end of nineties I got into breakdancing and then experimental dancing, so for about 10 years the dance was one of my main means of interacting with music. At the same time I’ve been an obsessed music collector and very much interested in djing. As I was getting older I devoted more and more time to actually playing the music out then battling. Eventually the music production became for me the next logical step to express my same old affection for music." 


What’s the electronic music scene like in Moscow at the moment?

Lay-Far -"Moscow is a very versatile city musically-vise but I can't really say there are any clearly defined electronic music scenes here at the moment (at least as I see it) - mainly the areas of influence of this or that club/label/promoters group, etc. In my opinion, local music producers either stand apart or center round small local music labels or venues. In the result we have lots of different music communities, which generally do not interact with each other, promoting their own artists or dj's only, and not contributing to the actual culture or scene development."

What producers/DJ's are doing it for you right now?

Atjazz


Simbad


Pepe Bradock


Theo Parrish


Recloose


Andres


Floating Points


Phil Asher




Who are your biggest influences musically?


Lay-Far -"First of all - my parents - I'm very grateful to them for upbringing my music taste, also Gilles Peterson, Mizell Brothers, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Roy Ayers, Mr. Scruff, Boards Of Canada, Pepe Bradock, Herbie Hancock, Jazzanova, 4hero, Kenny Dope, The Crusaders, Karizma, Domu, Massive Attack...."


What have you got coming up for the rest of 2012?

Lay-Far - "I have “Green” EP scheduled for this summer on Soul Free Records, a VA Ep with my track Down-To-Sky on the new Russian label Beats Delivery, check it HERE. At the moment I’m also having a couple of exciting collaborations with Peter Oakden and Yannah Valdevit, so hopefully the results will be out soon as well! ;-)"

Check out Lay-Far on Soundcloud HERE

And LIKE his Facebook page HERE

Our "This Is Development.." compilation comes out on Monday July 9th and we're continuing our series of mini-interviews with some of the artists involved.

Today we're chatting to Ben Pearce who provides us with the excellent track Hold Me on the forthcoming comp. Ben's about to blow up in a big way, his forthcoming track "What I Might Do" on Under The Shade has been generating some serious hype on the infoweb, check out Solomon dropping it HERE

Ben's also involved in the excellent Purp and Soul blog/label, check out their fantastic site HERE

This Is...Ben Pearce

1. Can you tell us a little bit about your background? How did you get into producing electronic music?

I started out DJ-ing in Manchester, production came first as an intrigue and I was teaching myself from online tutorials and trial and error. I never really thought about releasing music, I just tried to get to grips with the basics. DJ-ing has always come first but it's the best feeling when you play one of your own tracks that people love, I spend a lot of nights now sat on my laptop experimenting with new sounds and ideas. I'm so far off where I want to be but that keeps me going.

2. You're involved with the excellent Purp N Soul label/blog/agency, can you tell us a bit about that?

We're just approaching the first birthday of the launch of the blog, I got on board in about Sept/Oct last year and since then we've signed 6 artists and are close to our third label release, with 3 free EPs coming before that and another free EP due very shortly. It came about through a common ground in music and ethos, and it feels so great to be part of such a tight family after such a short space of time. We're always getting feedback from each other on music and everybody's standard is just climbing higher and higher. I'm really excited about the next 12months. The response has been amazing so far, really humbling what's been said from people.

3. What producers/DJ's are doing it for you right now?

DJ wise some inspirations have been Theo Parrish, who played in Manchester recently for a party I was involved in. Ben UFO, Todd Terje, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Dixon... I could go on.

As producers... Disclosure, David August, Hunter/Game, Bicep, Medlar, Mosca, Smallpeople's new album is incredible, George Fitzgerald, Mario Basanov, Harry Wolfman has just made some stuff that is mindblowing and the remixes of Harry's Free EP by Dan Style and Jouhl and insane aswell. All the guys on Purp & Soul as cliche as it is are all making brilliant music at the moment.

4. Who are your biggest influences musically?

Ohhh well, they go from people like A Tribe Called Quest, Slum Village, Souls of Mischief, Mobb Deep, Grieves to The Rolling Stones, Jeff Buckley, Bright Eyes, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Funeral For a Friend, A Day To Remember, All Time Low, Alexisonfire, Parkway Drive, Suicide Silence to Soul, Funk, Jazz, R&B, Acoustic... I listened to Classical Music a lot growing up because of my Dad, it's quite a range really. With electronic music it'd have to be people like Daft Punk, Justice, Simian Mobile Disco...there's so many DJ's but they'd be probably the people listed in question 3, it's to easy to be influenced these days!

5. What have you got coming up for the rest of 2012?

A lot of exciting releases on our label and showcases getting booked in more and more. We have an event in London on 17th August, a showcase in Gibraltar on 4th August.

I have the release of What I Might Do on 12" and Digital as an EP on Under The Shade, plus my remix of Sailor & I which is being released for free via Soundcloud and Facebook. After that I am working on a number of remixes at the moment, for Dialtone, Radjoteatern, Bridge The Gap and a few more perhaps.