Review: Italo nouveau specialist David Jackson, perhaps best known for 2020's 'Airport Disco', joins forces with like-minded ex-pat Northern Irishman Cormac, a veteran of the mid-00s Trash/Nag Nag Nag/Wet Yourself electroclash heyday who's busy these days with his Queerly Beloved podcast, his Polari label and his regular Rinse show. Together, they come to Running Back with a track that's pure 80s in feel and that owes a clear debt of inspiration to Depeche Mode. Label boss Gerd Janson's remix wonks things out a little more towards the end, while if you're not feeling the vocal there's also an instrumental included.
Review: Although born and raised in Germany, Heidelberg-based David Jackson is half-Irish - hence his desire to express that part of his identity within the music he makes. 'Guinness Italo', the title track from his latest EP on Frank Music, is as bright, breezy and sugary as the greatest Italo-disco, and as robust and strong-tasting as the famous stout namechecked in its name. Jackson explores his Irish roots more expressively on 'Guinness Emotions', a fine fusion of laidback, delay-laden Gallic folk music and bubbly dancefloor electronica, before once again reaching for jumpy synthesizer melodies and throbbing, arpeggio-driven grooves on 'Guinness Trance'. Bonus cut 'Guinness Drums', a brilliantly programmed, sweat-soaked, proto-house inspired DJ tool piled high with drum machine percussion, is also well worth a listen.
Review: Three tracks of pacy, synth-led contemporary disco here courtesy of Irish producer David Jackson and German label Frank Music. 'Airport Disco' is aptly titled, an instrumental affair that conjures visions of the First Class lounge in some swanking interplanetary spaceport. 'Oohhyee' with its euphoric, hands-in-the-air pianos veers closer to house/disco-house territory, while completing the EP is 'In My System', which summons the ghost of the kind of 80s Eurodisco that led us to house music in the first place. There's a whiff of fromage in places, but all three are highly infectious and will give the dancefloor a damn good workout.
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