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Review: Acid house was a popular music and youth culture phenomenon that started in Chicago in the mid-1980s and went on to change the musical landscape around the world. You've probably heard of it. Aimes, the man behind US label Wonder Stories has certainly heard of acid house - and we're guessing he liked what he heard, because here he delivers 14 tracks that pay the genre what we're assured is the sincerest form of flattery. To be fair, there's more to 'Let's Melt' than mere pastiche - rather than a simple back-to-88 homage, this is acid house given the benefit of 21st Century production values and the 3.5 decades' worth of stylistic innovation that have happened since. But at the end of the day it's still an acid house album - and one that you should probably add to your collection forthwith.
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WS 042
04 Feb 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 Feb 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Wonder Stories' founder Aimes (real name Aman Ellis) has been responsible for many of the label's most potent singles to date, so it seems fitting that he's delivered the imprint's first full-length excursion. As debut albums go, Let's Melt is something of an epic, with 19 unmixed tracks and a bonus DJ mix that stitches it together into one seamless journey. That's no criticism though, because the quality threshold remains high throughout. It's an album rich in analogue style synth sounds, rubbery disco bass, warning electronics and punchy, unfussy beats, with Ellis' cannily blurring the boundaries between nu-disco, deep house, angular acid, neo-Italo, Afro-electro, ambient, spacey jack tracks, off-kilter soundscapes and much more besides.
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WS 041
15 Mar 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Mar 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: To celebrate hitting 20 releases, Wonder Stories has decided to put out the label's first compilation. Wonder Buds is largely made up of arguably overlooked back catalogue highlights, but also includes a handful of previously unreleased tracks to appease regular label-watchers. There's plenty to set the pulse racing throughout, from the jostling Italo-disco/nu-disco fusion of Pop District's remix of Steve Cook's "Notice Me" and the boogie-influenced cosmic disco chug of DJ Rocca's Aimes rework (the brilliant "Notice Me"), to the foreboding psychedelic disco-chug of Curses' "Brains Bones Blood" and the acid-fired pulse of Los Fugazzi's "Paralel" [sic]. Oh, and the saucer-eyed, Balearic-inspired nu-disco dreaminess that is Mighty Mouse's wonderful remix of Air Zaire's "Love '94".
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WS 020
02 Oct 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
02 Oct 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
