The folks at Defected are certainly not superstitious, otherwise they would have just skipped the thirteenth release of their “Defected In The House” and continued with number fourteen.
This time Danny Krivit gets a chance to choose and mix the songs. And as you can see from the tracklisting below he has chosen an eclectic mix of new and classic tunes with the first disc being more on the uptempo side of vocal house/garage. The second disc is musically more diverse with songs covering afro, jazz, electro, house and soul, which makes it my favourite, although Diamond Temple’s Fly and Hi-Tech Jazz by Galaxy 2 Galaxy makes it hard not to like disc one too.
You know that a compilation is good when you hear a tune on it that you like at first listening only to discover that you must have missed this one at its time of release. Such a song is Da Lata’s Ronco Da Lucia, starting with a brazilian jazz intro and then turning in an afro influenced song. Thanks to Danny for including it here.
Portuguese Love has already been praised in my review of Bah Samba 4. Watching You Watching Me by Siji is another winner as is the last song, Natalie Cole’s Tell Me All About It which is remixed in a smooth lounge style.
Kudos to Defected that they don’t lower the quality of their successful In The House compilations with the thirteenth release.

Tracklisting of Danny Krivit In The House: Disc 1: 1.”Stay This Way” - Brand New Heavies (Danny Krivit Edit)/ 2.”Fly” - 280 West Feat. Diamond Temple/ 3.”Love Will” - Stephanie Cooke/ 4.”Breath Away” - Osunlade/ 5.”Slipstream” - Spiritual South/ 6.”Flight” - Studio Apartment Feat. Monique Bingham/ 7.”Gloria’s Groove” - David Morales/ 8.”Koloke” - Joe Claussell/ 9.”Peace” - Yukihiro Fukutomi/ 10.”Deep Down” - Gary Michael Wade/ 11.”Hi-Tech Jazz” - Galaxy 2 Galaxy/ 12.”Uam Uam” - Povo/ 13.”It’s Your Life” - Soul Creation Feat. Tyrah (Danny Krivit Edit)/ 14.”That’s How Much I Love You” - Ambrosia (Ruff Mix)
Disc 2: 1.”Ronco Da Lucia” - Da Lata/ 2.”Killer” - Adamski Feat. Seal/ 3.”Watching You Watching Me” - Siji (Tommy Bones Re-Edit)/ 4.”Awade” - Instant House/ 5.”I’m Your Superman” - Jan Leslie Homes/ 6.”You Give Good Love” - Diana King/ 7.”How Deep Is Your Love” - Blaze (Danny Krivit Edit)/ 8.”Come Into My Life” - Janet Rushmore/ 9.”Special” - Sara Devine/ 10. “Portuguese Love” - Bah Samba/ 11.”Someting With Jazz” – Mr. V/ 12.”Runnin” - John Cutler feat. Pete Simpson/ 13.”Inspired” - Satoshi Tomii/ 14. “Tell Me All About It” - Natalie Cole | released 2005 by Defected Records

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