Ronin

Repress alert. This is the cult 2002 Driftwood deep house EP long gone and sought-after — now reissued on Ronin's own Vibestate imprint. Known to fetch three figures secondhand, it's finally back in circulation.

Ronin's Luxury EP defined a particular strain of deep house in the early 2000s: spacious, meditative, built for depth rather than dancefloor urgency. The four tracks move through lush pads, warm filtered strings, and restrained rhythmic frameworks that let silence and space do as much work as the sounds themselves. It's the kind of record that rewards close listening — headphones material, late-night material, the sort of deep house that influenced a generation of producers working in downtempo and ambient house.

Vibestate's reissue restores access to what became one of the decade's most elusive releases. If you've been tracking secondhand copies or caught wind of this one's legend, now's the moment.