Clap Rules At Juno Download

Review: This debut album from Fabrizio Mammarella's oddly-named Clap Rules trio offers a quirky, offbeat take on electrofunk that's hard to pin down. While there are distinct acid house, dub disco, Italo-disco, P-funk and synth-pop influences, for the most part Golden Hands offers a talkbox/vocoder-heavy fusion of Krystal Klear/Chromeo-ish 80s boogie revivalism and oddball Italian disco-pop. While that may seem on paper like a recipe for audio gorgonzola, it's actually rather splendid. Musically, there's an excellent balance between cheeky dancefloor funk, wonky electronic workouts and lazy, semi-Balearic synthscapes. As a result, the album simply flies by.

Review: Killer remix package of oddball Italian outfit Clap Rules featuring remixes from modern disco deities In Flagranti, Mock & Toof, Daniel Maloso and Emperor Machine. First up In Flagranti turn "Oh Uiba" into the kind of stop-start arpeggiated throbber last heard on their brilliant edit of Diana Ross. Mock & Toof - who once upon a time released some excellent Clap Rules material on their now defunct Tiny Sticks label - give "Fantasmi" a slow, sleazy robotoic overhaul, while "Pericoloso" gets a loose limbed Italo tweak by Mr Maloso and the Emperor Machine round off a killer package in appropriate fashion, turning "Silver Mountains" a frankly epic 11-minute extended mix.