DJ Duke, unsung hero of deep house ingenuity, receives a deserved and absolutely essential reissue from NYCs Slow To Speak imprint. One of the lost masters of the abundant deep house community of the early 1990s, Duke epitomized the queen-infused, deeply fierce insular dialogue of New Yorks most outcaste underground. Part of his ode to deep house staples of yesteryear lost, >Heard< live up to their namesake, instrumental electronic masterpieces that disregard the concerns of conventional standardization while retaining the indisputable efficacy of NYs exploratory antiestablishment. Emotive, depthtful and totally accessible, >Core 1995< is the first re-visitation of forward-looking genius that will continue to epitomize Slow To Speaks retroactive genius, speaking more to the potential inventiveness of dance music than its former vivacity. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.