JONATHAN BURNIP
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QUICKIES Abel
Seven Day Weekend Blackdisco 8.5
Authentic disco oddity that nods to Kid Creole and the Ze Records sphere. Brilliantly oddball, with moments of curious easy listening and bizarre, electronic funk music.
Mango Edits #1
Millionhands Black 8.0
Two deep/proto house edits available on a limited 12”. A-side ‘Lead’ sounds like a trippy Nu-Groove/ Burrell production, with a more vintage Chicago/ new wave B-side, ‘Move’.
DISCO REVIEWS Savvas
Words Under The Sun Valley Sound 7.0
Balearic disco tribute ‘Words Under The Sun’ comes in original and chirpy Max Essa/Mikhael Fas remixes.
Various Artists
Guilty Pleasures EP House Of Disco 7.0
A guilty pleasure indeed; alongside dreamy deep house/slo-mo disco tracks by Ejeca and Finnebassen, there’s a disco version of Baby D’s ‘Let Me Be Your Fantasy’.
sound of ‘80s boogie and fashions it into something fit for the dancefloors of the present day. Adding some subtle twists, we’re offered four cuts of slo-mo disco, filtered house music and, for the purists, some really authentic electronic soul instrumentals. Ace.
Headman
It Rough 2013 Relish 8.0
Philipp Gorbachev
Hero Of Tomorrow Comeme
10 FABRIZIO MAMMARELLA SLOW MOTION RECORDS
01. FUNKINEVEN‘Dracula’ Apron “Very simple and effective, people always scream when the 303 line comes in.”
02.DRVG CVLTVRE‘Everything Oblivion EP’ Viewlexx “Slow, psychedelic, acid and druggy of course.”
03. MAXIMILLION DUNBAR‘Woo’ Rvng Int’l “‘The Drift’ is a masterpiece here. Again, simplicity wins. Killer bassline and drums
all the way.”
04.ROBERTO AUSER‘Future Exotica’Ausland “New label from Auser called Ausland, tribal percussion patterns assembled with
modern production techniques. Exotic and psychedelic.”
05. KYLE HALL & KERO‘Zug Island’Wild Oats “The tracks are inspired by the producers’ trip to Zug Island, a polluted toxic metal
factory area near Detroit.”
06. VELVET SEASON & THE HEARTS OF GOLD‘Camel Toe Central’ Lucky Hole “Two great drum tracks from Joel Martin of Quiet Village and Gerry Rooney of Black Cock!”
07. CUT HANDS‘Black Mamba’ Blackest Ever Black “With its very complex and hypnotic tribal drum patterns, with tempo changes, ‘Black
Mamba’ drives the crowd crazy when played in a club.”
08. STEVE REICH‘Nagoya Marimba (Hnny Edit)’No Rights Reserved “Excellent rework of Reich’s experiment on marimbas. Hnny adds nice live bass, disco
drums and good synth stabs.”
09. BINTUS‘Drink Ye From The Acid Chalice’ Power Vacuum “Raw analog acid track from label boss Milo Smee (Kruton, Binary Chaffinch, Chrome
Hoof).”
10. SUZANNE CIANI‘Seven Waves’ Bird Originally released in 1982, now re-pressed on Bird. Amazing arrangements, melodies,
chord progressions, and a ridiculous list of analog machines used in the making.” Jokers Of The Scene
Killing Jokes III Fool’s Gold 8.0
An ardent mid-’80s electro- boogie homage with a surprise 303 sequence midway, gated snares and dreamy synths, ‘Killing Jokes III’ is an authentic pastiche; providing a suitable selection of audio for Ed Banger’s Mickey Moonlight to work a typically idiosyncratic remix into. Psycatron drop a balanced techno fix and the flickering electro-disco of ‘A Fine Line Between Nowhere & Now Here’ makes for a particularly steadfast release.
Matias Aguayo’s Comeme label has had the lion’s share of the top spot on this page this year — and rightly so. Over the past months, the label has been a vent for some explosive new talent, such as Sano and Alejandro Paz, and familiars DJs Pareja, Daniel Maloso and Philip Gorbachev. The latter’s ‘Hero Of Tomorrow’ boasts a generous six tracks and is the sum of him becoming one of the label’s more maverick talents. ‘Where Is Rony Douglas?’ is the brilliant ‘call and response’ moment. If this isn’t going to be one of the more subversive club cuts of 2012, then I don’t know what will be. We’re then led into quirkier territories, with Gorbachev’s mutant strain of disco-not-disco on ‘Tour Las Mystical’, ‘The Last Days Of The District’ and the title track. ‘Sweet Regina’ takes a Bowie- esque ‘Thin White Duke’-era lyric and wrangles it around a haunting rhythm. So good.
Al Gobi
Halfway House Disco Bloodbath 9.0
Release number five is upon us from reputable party-cum-label collective, Disco Bloodbath, and it’s showing no signs of letting up with its, seemingly, ‘quality guaranteed’ dogma. A weighty house cut that could have been made circa ‘94 in deepest, darkest Miami, this Murk-inspired tune jacks in all the right places. Wild Geese add a more NYC flavour, with raw Todd Terry-style drums and staccato vocal clips. Legendary Sheffield producer DJ Parrot (Sweet Exorcist), here as Crooked Man, drops a thoroughly bonkers, and utterly original, makeover — with muted horns and stumbling rhythm sections. Superb.
Black Strobe
The Girl From The Bayou Black Strobe 8.0
Swampy disco-noir from Black Strobe in a less propulsive, electro mood, priming an album release in 2013 with this single. A cool vocal, which could have been lifted from a Suicide or LCD Soundsystem tune, wrangles a jagged disco-not-disco rhythm — think mid-’80s A Certain Ratio. Both vocal and dub versions feature, and the darker styles of ‘A Mojoworker’ round off this icy cool EP.
Elias Tzikas
Hunt Hurt Hearts EP Retrospective 7.5
There’s something for most on this EP from Greek producer, Elias Tzikas, who masterfully takes the
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Robbi Insinna returns under his established Headman guise with some robust, block-party-rocking electro-disco that owes as much to the likes of ESG as it does Arthur Baker. Originally seeing a release back in 2003, this minor classic gets a current makeover by Scott Fraser (the latter’s slo-mo, cosmic ‘chug’ is the highlight of the EP), with a fidgeting acid version from Insinna himself.
Padded Cell
Guardians Of The Night Different 9.5
Richard and Neil sharpen their ‘punk-funk’ style with this long overdue release since their last on the much-lamented DC Recordings. Oozing complete cool, ‘Guardians Of The Night’ has an androgynous vocal trained to a spiraling alto sax — I’m almost expecting to read ‘Andy Mackay’ in the credits. To accompany this and an instrumental version of the title track is ‘Deviancy Amp’ — a rougher, analogue dub tune to work that ‘death disco’.
Sally Shapiro What Can I Do (Com Truise
Remix) Paper Bag Records 8.5
From working with labels such as Diskokaine through to Permanent Vacation, and alongside artists such as Italo disco legend Fred Ventura and ‘chillwaver’ CFCF, Shapiro has become the figurehead for the dreamy, spirited pop/indie-disco sound. Her latest for Paper Bag (who initially released a collaboration with CFCF) is a chirpy indie-disco number that takes a cue from vintage 4AD (Cocteau Twins) mixed with just an oversweet touch of ‘80s Euro-pop; and the result is nothing short of lovely. After becoming the ‘next big thing’ post his ‘Galactic Melt’ debut for Ghostly (and I’m sure a remix credit on Daft Punk’s ‘Tron’ soundtrack helped!), Com Truise lays down some clattering Linn drum work to offset the serenity of the original.
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