Review: Italy's Sound Exhibitions bring us a 19-artist, 24-track collection that's very much the proverbial "game of two halves (Brian)". The album opens with label boss Vito Lalinga's Afro-jazz workout 'Angola', but that's a little misleading because it's the only real Afro-flavoured cut on offer, and from 'Legend' onwards we drop down into moody, cinematic jazz/jazz-funk territory - you're never far from a warbling Hammond organ, a live-sounding double bass line or a soaraway sax solo here! But then there's a change of mood as, with a little push from M.A.D.Y's 'Tribal Disco' and C Da Afro's 'Speed Dial, we find ourselves propelled into nu-disco/disco-house territory for the rest of the set - albeit with those jazzual flourishes still seldom backwards in coming forwards. A very classy comp indeed.
Review: DJ Moy returns once more to Italy's Sound Exhibitions label with a two-tracker that shows off his funkier side. The EP opens with 'Tribal Gardens', a rolling, lightly tropical-tinged instrumental funk groover that's topped with brass parps and underpinned by dense hand percussion. 'Space Friends' itself drops down to a hypnotic walking tempo, and again the bongas and congos are out in force, but here married to an in-your-face bass synth drone and wukka-wukking funk geetar while, in the midsection, centre-stage is stolen by an ear-catching, Theremin-like wail that adds a dash of 60s sci-fi kitsch.
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