Dog With A Bone scratches away under Valencia’s theBasement Discos umbrella. Young and promising producer Sam Hicks makes his first appearance on the label, bringing a Bristol sensibility to an outfit quietly building its own corner of the House Music landscape. There’s a lineage there – Bristol’s dance floors have never been shy about letting grooves breathe – and Hicks carries that forward with a single built for the moment a room locks in and refuses to let go.

“Way You Love” cruises at 127 BPM, that unhurried but insistent pace where the floor finds its stride without breaking a sweat. Vocal hooks thread through the arrangement, repeating and refracting just enough to lodge themselves in the memory after a single pass. The groove rolls with an uncluttered confidence – kicks that land with weight, hi-hats that skip and tease, bass frequencies that move through the body before the head registers them. Meanwhile, OMG-piano chords drift beneath the surface, adding warmth and harmonic weight without ever stealing focus. Hicks delivers a peak-time cut that understands its purpose: to arrive exactly when the night needs it, do its work, and then step aside. A track devoted to creating brand-new and perennial clubbing memories, that’s what we have here.

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