Permanent Vacation Germany At Juno Download

Review: When quizzed about his debut full-length before a Juno Plus party last year, John Talabot paused for a minute. "It's not really house, more electronica - like a proper album," he finally remarked. It's an apt description. Fin is clearly rooted in house - and the kind of melody-driven, atmospheric tackle that the Barcelona-based producer excels at - but it's certainly not a dancefloor-focused set. There are off-kilter downtempo moments, slo-mo compositions and twisted beatscapes that recall the impossible-to-pigeonhole antics of Hyetal (circa "Broadcast"), Sepalcure and Instra:Mental. Then there's closer "So Will Be Now" (one of two collaborations with Pional), a near-genius chunk of future garage/deep acid house fusion that's so beautiful it almost hurts. As transformations go, Fin is stunning.

Review: For fans of contemporary disco business, the mere concept of shadowy plus four wearers Tiger & Woods tackling a Tensnake production will cause prolonged heart palpitations. And we've been kept waiting a long time for the duo's take on "Need Your Loving" to finally surface with Niemerski having revealed its origins in December of last year - I guess that's why Permanent Vacation is called so! Tiger & Woods do as you'd expect they would, masterfully slicing the track and piling the layers atop each other before finally dropping into the infectious original towards the end. Original and dub mix also included!

Review: Munich label Permanent Vacation's annual Selected Label Works collections are rarely less than essential, and this third volume is no different. As usual, there's an enjoyable mix of dancefloor hits, leftfield disco curiosities, rabble-rousing remixes and atmospheric, occasionally Balearic moments. With such a vast tracklist and the quality threshold high throughout, it's hard picking highlights. Worth particular attention, though, are Todd Terje's quaint dub reggae rework of Europop hit "All That She Wants" (covered under his occasional Chuck Norris guise), the quirky Germanic pop of new signings Candyblasta and Argy's thrilling, Hacienda-style Balearic breaks mix of his own Zodiac Free Arts Club track "NAOE".

Review: Munich label Permanent Vacation serve up a second helping of If This Is House I Want My Money Back, presenting twelve tracks of truly cosmopolitan house from some of the best producers out there. Familiar Vacationers such as the Hivern duo of Talabot and Pional return (and provide two of the compilations highlights) along with the likes of Jacob Korn and naturally Permanent Vacation themselves. New arrivals feature more prominently here, and justify their inclusion most notably "Excited", the rough hewn warehouse endeavour from Future Times duo Beautiful Swimmers. The aforementioned Talabot jam "Leave Me" provides the most immediate gratification, demonstrating the Spaniard's true panache for teasing out obscure samples across a track that is constantly twisting with life. However it's surrounded by eleven productions that reveal their own brilliance with time and that's surely the mark of a fine compilation.

Review: If you missed out on their recent vinyl releases, this five-track digital EP offers an excellent introduction to German art-disco trio Pollyester. Alongside a brand new track - the thrilling leftfield disco epic "You Are Amen" - you get both singles ("German Love Letter" and "Round Clocks"), plus excellent, stripped-down, dancefloor-friendly reworks from Mock & Toof (whose dubbed-out remix of "The Indian" sounds like a long lost DFA track) and Permanent Vacation. All five tracks are worth investigating, not least for their sassy fusion of off-kilter disco percussion, new wave posturing and punk-funk energy.

Review: Norwegian disco beard Todd Terje launches this epic (and unmixed) collection of some of his best remixes. Ranging from the rare to the ubiquitous, the underlying theme here is quality. There's some killer cuts under his different aliases (Duliatten Disco Dandia, Kacic Kullmann?s Five), which includes an unashamedly awesome reworking of Ace of Base, erm, classic "All That She Wants" under the Chuck Norris moniker. Throw into that remixes of Jose Gonzalez, M, Rogue Cat, old chum Lindstrom and of course Shit Robot, and you have a compilation not to miss. Indeed, unless you have followed the Terje's career with an incredibly hawkish eye, there's sure to be a few gems on here that you missed the first time round. And there's even an hour long mix of Terje classics at the end to round it off.

Review: Swedish Italo-disco starlet Sally Shapiro returns with her final instalment of remixes from her My Guilty Pleasure album. Out on Permanent Vacation, this EP contains nine tracks and features some of the best producers that the neo pop and disco scene has to offer.



My Guilty Pleasure, Sapiro's second album, received both critical and commercial acclaim when it was released in August last year. Based around 80s disco, the record also took in influence from jazz, pop, acid and ambient beats. Now, just like she did with her debut album Disco Romance, she unleashes an EP of remixes of the album tracks.

Steve Moore of US band Zombi opens the package under his Lovelock moniker, giving "Save Your Love" his shiny 80s glitz treatment before relative newcomers FM Attack and CFCF take on "Looking At the Stars" and "Love in July" respectively. Bogdan Irkuk then turns in a vocoder version of "Miracles" and Italian disco mover Bottin chips in with a chord heavy interpretation of "My Fantasy." Synth pop stars the Junior Boys are up next with one of the highlights of the EP. Turning "Jackie Jackie" into a shimmering but dark club track, the boys find the original a new lease of life. Permanent Vacation own boy Bostro Pesopeo hands over a solemn remix of "Love in July" and Boat Club slow it down for an epic sounding "Swimming Through the Blue Lagoon" before Low Motion Disco close off the EP with their Balearic influenced remix of "Let It Show."



What we get here is a collection of nu disco's most accomplished producers doing a fine job of reworking Shapiro's tracks to complement the original album. They have all brought their own ideas and own sound to the tracks but still managed to maintain Shapiro and her collaborator Johan Agebjorn's marriage of homely, introspective melody and gleaming electronic production.