Review: Brussels-born DC Salas has been in good form in 2021, with this outing on Dave Harvey's Futureboogie imprint following well-received EPs on Pets Recordings and Live From Robert Johnson. Salas sets his stall out on title track 'The Weight of Uncertainty', an echoing, faintly funky slab of proto-house/Italo-disco/acid house fusion full of sweaty drums, fuzzy bass and spacey synth sounds. French great I:Cube weighs in with a predictably impressive remix that takes the track even further into deep space via swirling chords, ambient house sonics and Kraftwerk-esque bleeps. Elsewhere on the EP, 'Gliding Future' sounds like a pitched-down Nitzer Ebb jam from 1988 and 'They Don't See It' joins the dots between new beat and early acid house.
Review: The Adana Twins deliver the third edition of their annual compilation series, and Spektrum 3 is the best volume yet. It features swirling, vivid electronic jams from Echonomist and Hadiid - the frosty synths on the latter's "Neuro" is especially memorable - alongside the raw percussion and melodic hooks of Aaaron's "Smile". The pace picks up on Cabaret Nocturne's "Afterlife", with Eleonora's breathy vocals set to a pulsating groove, while DC Salas' "Solar Walk" is a chugging piece of Bordello A Parigi-style Italo. However the centre piece in the compilation is the purring bass and the tight drums of the Adana Twins' own "Nordlys", a killer modern electronic disco workout.
Review: Hailing from Brussels, Diego Cortez Salas has a 10-year release history under his belt, even if he's perhaps better known for his show on Kiosk Radio. This EP for German label Live At Robert Johnson finds him in synth-disco territory as he serves up four all-electronic cuts that sound very much as though they've been jammed out live rather than patched together from loops and samples - though whether that's true or not, we have no way of knowing. The title cut is a particular standout, and could well find its way onto broader-minded techno floors.
Review: Frankfurt institution Live At Robert Johnson present Diego Cortez Salas, a skilled talent of Peruvian origins who hails from Brussels and has had some impressive run of releases of late on tastemaker labels like Eclair Fifi's River Rapid, Correspondant and Biologic Records - which he's run with Abstraxion since 2014. Salas delves into classic house and disco aesthetics on 'The Complicated Art of Dreaming' EP: from the glistening FM synth tones of the smashing "Keep Them Closer" complete with signature 303 squelch, to the bass-driven peak time roar of "Guessing" and the emotive late night mood music of "Trustful" - all in all its one seriously neon-lit affair.
Review: Nu-disco fans now have an unexpected Christmas bonus in the form of this meeting of minds collaboration between Belgium's mighty Mugwump and Relish's DC Salas. As expected "Giallo" is a moody heavy breather that is clearly influenced by the legendary soundtracks of 1970s Italian giallo horror cinema. Soft Rocks step in to add some seriously amazing drama in their massive Flesh & Fantasy mix too. Lastly things on a stoner high end with killer Balearic chug-a-thon "Hinterland". Essential!
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