I put this on this morning expecting something calm and pastoral. I’d just been listening to the new Johnwaynes EP on Mule Musiq and needed something a little refreshing.

“Runners”, despite the name, did just that.

By the end of its 7:36 I was pretty sure this one was going to go down as an instant classic. Your fourth wind while sun is streaming in through eastern windows pretty much sums it up. A heavy-weight back half is the extended release of the working first – great stuff. This is what I remember from back in the late 90′s, in the bottom basement room at 19th & Grand. Morning Factory has redefined house music and given us the single mos-errrrrr . . .

Hey wait a sec, who exactly IS Morning Factory?

That’s a good question.  I started at their Discogs page, and was surprised to find this was their only listing.  But then clicking over to the Yore Records entry made me stop.  Andy Vaz‘s label, touting only the best of “old school” producers?  He’s got a co-production with Alton Miller on there?  Todd Sines as the first of about 20 releases?  The Above Smoke and Dubbyman brothers, Terrence Dixon, Kez YM?

Morning Factory has to be one of those anonymous super-producer gem things that’s been getting really popular lately, right?  Some classic producer from the early 90s dropping a bomb quietly out of nowhere, among Yore-friends, right?  Mike Banks featuring Dam-Funk?  Turns out it’s just two guys from Holland and it really is their debut release.

So that’s who Morning Factory is.

I’m pretty sure that’s Stevie Edwards of  “Future Love”/”Better Day” fame on track 2.

I found myself just sitting here, listening to these songs over and over again.  Granted, it was 8:45 in the morning, but in some parts of the world that’s just when the party is getting started.  The energy here is, as I said, refreshing.  The sneaker freakers are going to destroy “Raw Tunes Vol 1″ and ep closer “Someone” is a loveshaker, a smooth gallop ride in the house countryside.

This one goes down as one of the best debut eps I’ve heard in quite some time.