Review: Just like its five predecessors, the latest volume in Sol Selectas' Summer Sol compilation series is packed to the rafters with warming, life-affirming musical treats. At 28 tracks deep it's a genuine epic, but the label's high-quality threshold rarely dips throughout. For proof, check the jangling, Mediterranean terrace-ready Balearic house vibes of Sabo's 'Podre
Tulum', the exotic, bass-heavy chug of Balam's 'Kambo' (a future slo-mo classic), the Middle Eastern sounding tech-house of Omeria's 'Trailblazer', the driving early morning dancefloor psychedelia of The Scumfrog's 'But If Not' and the ultra-dreamy, immersive brilliance of 'Blue Sun' by Yohoros and Balint Boldizsar, whose delay-laden horn lines and drifting chords sound tailor-made for sunrise.
Review: Channelling earthly spirits more than ever before on this latest Summer Sol compilation is a vast collection of artists who are clearly deft in the art of combining traditional and acoustic elements with amplified production processes of the modern day. Filled with deep and techy sounds all the more, this compilation brims with the spiritual klang of ancient percussive teachings, tasteful pan pipes and plucked strings from the world over. Find this alongside epic basslines in Yamil's "Hedia", Ayala's jazz-tipped "Spectre" to the slower-motion and chugging beats of "Vimana (feat Helia Jamali)". And for that dubby tip, we suggest "Shantallion" by Novalima & Israel Vich.
Review: If you're a fan of tropical disco and deep house - or at the very least electronic music that combines a variety of global sounds with a humid and psychedelic ethos - then we'd heartily recommend this compilation from Shango Records. Beginning with the head-nodding haziness of Lola Villa's "Wendys of Death", the set shuffles (and later dances) its way through pitched-down cosmic disco (Prado's unsettling "Tiete") and feverish, slo-mo house hypnotism (Traum's sub-heavy "Ajulejo" and the 'bad acid trip' vibes of Dn H's faintly foreboding "Mosular Spheres"), before gradually upping the tempo in pursuit of sweatier dancefloor thrills. In this category we'd put Guy Mayaan's "Stars Ceremony", a percussion-laden slab of tech-house/space disco fusion that cannily increases in intensity throughout.
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