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Pittsburgh seems to be a hotbed of talent and good house music recently, all led by this trio - here with 4 stunning edits on the always excellent and much underrated Rotating Souls label. The excellent Sleazy Beats blog seem to have hit the nail on the head with their recent review, coldnt have summed it up better: 'April Boogie on the A1 is a lovely piece of chunky modern analogue boogie with stuttering drums, slick synth lines, soothing keys played by 80s hero Craig Peyton and it funks like the proverbial bastard. Also on the A is Revelation, which might just be the best friggin' disco edit I've heard this year. The P.T.A. boys expertly whipped 'Feel It' by Revelation (1981) in shape by cutting off the not-so-fantastic first half of the original tune and building on the second half of the tune, looping a few choice bars with some incredibly infectious guitar licks, smooth percussion, muted trumpets/horns and lush Philly strings. What is already a killer groove really gets going when the vocal comes in. How coool is that, taking a mediocre track and turning it into dancefloor gold? Every year there's one or two edits that really make me fall in love with disco again. Last year it was Justin Vandervolgen on ChannelXXX, this year it's P.T.A. on Rotating Souls.On the flip there's PHX831, a rework of Isaac Hayes' Disco Connection. The P.T.A. lads stuck to the superfast tempo of the original (I reckon it's around 130 BPM). Nothing the pitch fader can't fix though, and the clever tweaks, nips and tucks work a real treat here. On the B2 there's more of that fresh boogie magic in the form of Moving2hard, a mesmerizing, spaced out gloopy groover, nicely rounding out the EP. The artwork deserves a special mention too, as the Rotating Souls releases always look amazing. Curt tells me it's done up by Dr. Scientifical, label boss of The Harmony Society, yet another Pittsburgh based imprint.