David Penn Essentials

There’s funky house, and then there’s what David Penn does—a kind of funkier-than-funky house, full of big, bruising basslines and thick, chunky drums. When not releasing on his own Urbana Recordings, the Spanish producer is a regular on the Defected label, where his blend of disco riffs, beefy hooks and Latin rhythms makes for the perfect encapsulation of big-room bliss, wrapping up a classic disco spirit in a powerful peak-time package. Penn never scrimps on attitude: from the rolling waves of sub-bass to the smartly deployed vocal samples, his tunes command centre stage. Crowd-pleasing house doesn’t get much more perfect than this.