Few figures in electronic music have aged as gracefully as Moodymann. For the best part of three decades, Kenny Dixon Jr. has been the warm, elusive heartbeat of Detroit house—a producer whose records feel less like productions than like overheard conversations in a beloved neighbourhood bar. His latest move is Keep on Coming, a single built around a soulful vocal from CD, released on 11 June via CircoLoco Records.
The track arrives on the relaunched CircoLoco Records imprint, the Ibiza institution’s first real foray into releasing music after years spent curating parties alone, and it sets the label’s tone beautifully. Keep on Coming rolls on a greasy four-to-the-floor beat, the kick sunk low beneath swung hats and a loose, rubbery bassline that never quite sits still. Rhodes chords spill over the top, drenched in tape warmth, while the drums carry just enough swing to feel human without ever losing their lock.
CD’s vocal is the record’s centrepiece, and it’s here that the gospel influence the title hints at really lands. Her performance hovers somewhere between testimony and seduction, calling out over reverb-heavy pads that open up as the track unfolds, the call-and-response phrasing giving the whole thing the feel of a Sunday service run through a dusty mixer. Across its five minutes and seventeen seconds, Keep on Coming builds patiently—nothing jumps, nothing shouts, and the restraint is precisely what makes it hit.
The single has also found an unlikely second life as part of the GTA Online universe, licensed via Rockstar and Take-Two—a fitting home for music that already sounds like it belongs to a city at night. Moodymann is in no hurry here, and neither is the music; that unhurried confidence is exactly what makes Keep on Coming such a satisfying listen. Long may CircoLoco’s relaunch be soundtracked by records this good.
