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I write the @_FirstFloor newsletter, talk on @dublabes radio and help run @buymusicclub. My book 'First Floor Vol. 1' is out now on @PressVelocity.

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First Floor #320 – The Wait Was Worth It

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By Shawn Reynaldo Verified
| First Floor
As a general rule, First Floor tries to steer clear of loudly crowing every time an exclusive piece of content gets published in the newsletter. First of all, the value of exclusivity only means so much in the context of niche electronic music, and in a time when the exclusivity of something pretty much ends the second it goes online, it usually makes sense to keep the self-congratulation to a minimum.
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Topdown Dialectic – False LP A

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By Shawn Reynaldo Verified
| First Floor
Who or what is Topdown Dialectic? Until a few months ago, this was a perfectly reasonable question. For more than a decade, the project had steadily dropped releases—most of them populated only with songs that were exactly five minutes in length—and had done so while A) racking up a growing amount of critical acclaim and B) sharing almost no information about how the music was made or the identity of who’d actually made it.
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Quoting G – I Can Feel It (In My Bones)

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By Shawn Reynaldo Verified
| First Floor
Who is Quoting G? According to the Clone Records gang, the producer is a “long-time label mainstay,” but beyond that, they’re not saying much. If the “G” is any indication, veteran Dutch producer Gerd (a.k.a. NY Stomp, along with many, many other aliases) is a solid candidate, especially since I Can Feel It (In My Bones) deals in the same sort of soulful, early-’90s house music that’s long been one of his primary calling cards.
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