Review: If you're in the mood for some cross-generational dream house revivalism, you need to get your ears around this collaboration from contemporary Italian producers Dirty Channels and living legend Don Carlos. In its' luscious, EP opening 'Paradise Mix' form, 'Adriatico' boasts the same alluring, colourful and dreamy blend of rubbery synth-bass, snappy machine drums, immersive pads, fluttering flutes and rush-inducing piano motifs that made Carlos's turn-of-the-90s productions so sensational. The trio deliver a similarly delicious, piano-heavy peak-time dub, while Tom Trago reinvents it as an ultra-deep, near techno-tempo stomper and Axel Boman re-imagines it as a pitched-down, acid-flecked slow house bubbler. If you still want more loved-up lusciousness, bonus cut 'Tirreno' will genuinely hit the spot.
Black & Brown - "What Time In Tokyo" - (5:14) 102 BPM
Baby Doll House - "What's Up" - (5:18) 103 BPM
National Rare Groove - "Talking To You" (Play That Sax) - (6:00) 100 BPM
Sorace - "Lifetime" (extended Club mix) - (7:18) 100 BPM
Review: Some years back, Laurent Garnier's F Communications label released a series of compilations under the title "Megasoft Office". These gathered together deep, groovy and downtempo cuts that made an excellent musical accompaniment to your working day. Irma's latest collection, "Work With Balearic Music", takes a similar approach. Wisely, the storied label group has dipped into their archive of original Balearic-era Italian productions, offering up dream house classics and rarities from the likes of Keys & Tronics Ensemble, Montego Bay, Belladonna, Don Carlos, Notenshun and Soft House Company. Throw in some jazzy downtempo grooves and a handful of recent productions and you have an expansive, on-point set rich in classic cuts.
Review: Young Marco and A Good Christian draw the curtain down on their brilliant Italian dream house retrospective series, Welcome To Paradise, with a third and final instalment that's every bit as good as its predecessors. After opening with the previously unreleased brilliance of Jacy's "Resounding Seashell" - the kind of cut that deserves to be played at languid, laidback afternoon pool parties - the Dutch duo variously serves-up sought-after gems (Leo Anibaldi's Larry Heard-esque "Universal"), humid and intoxicating early morning anthems (the tribal chants, kaleidoscopic chords and New Jersey organs of Green Baize's "Tramp Heart"), early ambient house anthems (Deep Blue's "Deep Blue (The Inner Part of Me)") and stone cold classics (Don Carlos's "Overture").
Review: Out Of The Blue, Phil Mison's first compilation for some time, was apparently inspired by his first few trips to the White Isle of Ibiza, and specifically the unlikely set of circumstances that led to him filling in for Jose Padilla at Cafe Del Mar. Musically, it's reflective of the story, joining the dots between impossible-to-find rarities (see the loved-up instrumental jazz-rock of "Jelly" by The Cactus Rose Project and the life-affirming fusion business of Christoph Spendel Group's "Forever", for starters), huggable Balearic synth-pop, flamenco-inspired sunset gems, and a smattering of head-in-the-clouds Italian dream house killers. Given Mison's heritage and status as one of Balearica's top selectors, it's perhaps unsurprising that Out Of The Blue is undeniably brilliant.
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