Six names on this volume —Diskobar, Paul Parsons, Alexny, D.P.V., GooDisco and Save The Robots— already appeared on Vol.04 of the same series, something you can verify right in Beatport's own catalog. That fact defines RH2 better than any press blurb: this is not a label signing stray singles, it is a fixed roster rotating from volume to volume. And this ninth installment runs on the logic of a house that knows exactly what sound it manages.
A narrow-window sound
The tracklist confirms it with near-obsessive discipline: fifteen of the sixteen cuts live between 122 and 127 BPM, seven of them locked at 122. Thirteen minor keys against three majors sketch a funk more nocturnal than sunny, with Alexny's 'Here Comes The Sun', in F major, as the luminous exception. The one stylistic crack is deliberate: 'Let's Celebrate' by DJ Mes and Turntables Night Fever, the lone jackin cut of the batch, is a reminder that RH2 plays that card too; in fact, the label runs the parallel Disco House Flashback series, already at its tenth volume.
Cruising speed is another identity trait: the series launched in September 2024 and has pushed out ten volumes in under two years, a factory pace that only holds up with seasoned producers. The clearest example here is Demarkus Lewis, a Dallas veteran who has been DJing since 1990, Traxsource's number one jackin artist in 2014 and owner of his own label, Grin Music, since 2005. His 'Love Is The Fuel', at 126 BPM in A minor, ranks among the roundest cuts on the record.
The tracklist's two anomalies work as calculated breathers: Save The Robots' 'Body Language' drops to 108 BPM in E major, the only cut to leave the album's tempo lane, while N9NE LIVES' 'Feverlight' stretches the format to 7:46. The rest is consistency as aesthetics: RH2 is not trying to surprise you, it is making sure each volume slots into the box of the previous one. In a genre as seasonal as nu disco, that predictability is precisely the product.
Sources: Beatport · Essential House · Last.fm
