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Ilya Santana
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Review: Spanish disco stalwart Santana impresses greatly with this five-track EP - though it may take a few listens to truly sink in, such is the musical variety on offer. The squelchy boogie of opener 'Don't Turn Me Back' gives way to the 80s new wave rock stylings of 'Jeopardy', after which there's 'Open The Door' - a country/disco/west coast pop fusion reminiscent of the Phenomenal Handclap Band. Then it's back to boogie with 'Trying Over', before finally 'I Wanna Be With You' - think 70s disco with a raw funk edge - plays us out in fine style. 'Open The Door' takes the gold for yours truly but there's not a duff cut in sight.
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SPA 378
10 Jan 25
Disco/Nu-Disco
10 Jan 25
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: To round off a successful 2024, Ilya Santana's Astrolead Recordings label has decided to offer up a fresh label sampler/compilation showcasing the disparate variety of sounds it has released over recent years. Naturally, Santana's material dominates - though much of it appears in remixed form. There are some cracking versions on show, with our picks including a sparkling and trippy Hardway Brothers rub of 'Won't Look Back', a punchy electro-goes-nu-disco Petko Turner tweak of 'Undercover Girl', a throbbing and dubbed-out dark disco fix of 'Cosmic Rising' by Rune Lindbaek and a genuinely psychedelic, dub disco-flecked interpretation of 'The Bass Cave' by Dennis Kane. Other highlights include the punk-funk vibes of AINZ's 'Moonlight Animals', a deliciously slow-motion Santana take on Julian Sanza's 'Caterpillar' and the pulsating, EBM-inspired darkness of Levantine's 'Forever Leather'.
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AR 095
20 Dec 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
20 Dec 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Not content with being one of European nu-disco's premier producers, with a track record of laying down seriously good, heavily electronic treats, Ilya Santana has turned into an admired re-editor too thanks to his ongoing 'Astro Edits' series. Like its predecessors, volume six offers two top-notch re-rubs. Opener 'Backdoor Man' is particularly alluring - a near ten-minute take on a swirling, heavily orchestrated slab of hybrid electrotonic/organic disco-rock. It's camper than Christmas and twice as fun! 'Domine', meanwhile, is deliciously low-slung, loopy and psychedelic, with notable stereo separation and tons of spaced-out guitar and analogue synth licks - proper cosmic disco action all told!
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AR 089
08 Nov 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
08 Nov 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Vincent Inc, Rob Lee, Pete Herbert, Rayko, Ilya Santana, FRAN DEEPER, D.S.D., Andy Buchan
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AR 088
01 Nov 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Nov 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Spanish nu-disco don Ilya Santana brings us a collection of tracks that proudly announce their intentions in the album's very title, as he pays tribute the early 80s, when new wave, disco and synthesizers collided to form the new mainstream pop sound of mainland Europe. Whether the tracks here should be considered as re-edits, covers or simply homages isn't entirely clear, but there are at least three cover versions included: Hot RS's cheese-tastic South African disco melodrama 'Doublecross' from 1980, Skatt Bros' 'I Walk The Night' from 1979 (also recently revisited by Santana's German contemporary Alkalino) and - more surprisingly - Canned Heat's 1970s blues-rock classic 'On The Road Again'. A grin-inducing jaunt into unabashed nostalgia that's built for sheer enjoyment.
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AR 086
18 Oct 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Oct 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: A brace of reworks here from that Spanish master of all things electronic and discofied, Ilya Santana. Opener 'Pusti, Pusti' is - a little Googling reveals! - a rework of 'Pusti, Pusti Modu', a 1980 hit for Bosnian-Serbian singer Zdravko Colic, in which Santana ditches the vocal and drops the tempo slightly, transforming the 1980s Europopper into something altogether more low-slung and groovy. The source for 'Melodramat', meanwhile, eludes us, but it's another electronic chugger sitting somewhere between Moroder and 'War Of The Worlds'.
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AR 085
11 Oct 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
11 Oct 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: For the label's 98th release, Boite Music has assembled a crack team of nu-disco heavyweights to lay down some 'Nu-Retro' flavours. So, what does this mean in practice? Well, Jay Airiness's squelchy opener 'Mellotron's Singing' plays tribute to an old (and in its time pioneering) instrument via dusty deep house loops and ear-catching samples, while Rayko's accurately titled 'Slow Motion' is a soaring slab of slow build, string-laden nu-disco squelch. The Canary Islands' finest, Ilya Santana, delivers a typically colourful and atmospheric slab of Italo disco-influenced retro-futurism, before Spa in Disco boss Fran Deeper rounds off a good quality EP with some trancey nu-disco heaviness ('New Studio').
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BOITE 098
27 Sep 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
27 Sep 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: You could be forgiven for assuming, given the title, that this was a collection of covers, remixes or re-edits of Chic tracks, but no... it's just a new label compilation from Spa In Disco. Maybe they felt all the tracks share a certain Chic-y vibe? Still, a new label compilation from Spa In Disco is never something to be sniffed at and with cuts from scene favourites like Julian Sanza, Fran Deeper, Ilya Santana and Sauco among the musical delights on offer, lovers of modern disco will find much to enjoy here - not least a double-bass-and-trumpets romp from Infradisco, the sensual slo-mo boogie/funk of Santana's 'Valle Estelar' and Marchese del Disco's Talking Heads-ish 'Maybe Next Time'.
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SPA 351
26 Jul 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
26 Jul 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
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BOITE 085
31 May 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
31 May 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: Clocking it at just under 2.5 hours long, you certainly can't fault this Rare Wiri year-end label comp on the value for money front! With 23 tracks on offer there's no room here to go into them all individually, and you probably have a pretty good idea of the label's particular electronic, 80s-leaning flavour of nu-disco anyway. Suffice to say, then, that Rare Wiri's many existing fans will be more than satisfied while newbies - if there are any left! - should start with AINZ's chunky, sleazy 'Hangover', the Italo strut of From Beyond's 'Non Analogue', MR Gee's throbbing 'Gravity', Rune Lindbaek's sci-fi refix of Ilya Santana's 'Cosmos Rising' or, a personal fave, Kelton Prime's 'Disco Arpeggio', wherein nu-disco meets garage vox...
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RW 227
25 Dec 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
25 Dec 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Four tracks of heavily electronic disco make up this latest V/A collection from Rakyo's Rare Wiri stable. Ilya Santana gets the ball rolling with the ominous, cinematic 'After Dark', before Kay-chi & Keymon drag us onto the early 80s dancefloor with 'Patches Of Light' feat Kally Voo. The label boss himself then steps up with 'Relax Your Body', which looks to styles like cosmic disco, EBM and Belgian new beat for inspiration, before the EP's completed by MR Gee's 'Under The Moonlight', which opens with a mood-setting manic cackle then breaks out into something of a moody, midtempo synth epic.
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RW 219
30 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
30 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Four tracks from as many artists make up this latest V/A offering from Rayko's Rare Wiri, with a couple of heavy-hitters sharing the stage with a brace of newcomers. Up first is new boy Billy Woods, who channels early 80s cod reggae vibes on not-unlikable opener 'Reggae Music' before Spanish veteran Ilya Santana shows us how the big boys do it with the surging, euphoric and lightly rock-tinged nu-disco of 'X Factor'. Label chief Rayko then steps up with the decidedly 80s-sounding 'Jabdah' before Leo Zero plays us out with the rawk geetars of 'All Is Fair'.
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RW 217
16 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
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AR 061
13 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
13 Oct 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
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AR 057
25 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
25 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: The Canary Islands' own disco don Ilya Santana has never been afraid of wearing his love for all things 80s on his sleeve, with this new two-tracker on his own Astrolead Recordings being but the latest example. 'Doublecross' is a reworking of the 1980 track of the same name by South African disco-rock fusionists Hot RS, who were best known for a disco cover of 'House Of The Rising Sun', while the synth-tastic, sci-fi-esque 'Underwater' originally featured on the 1979 long-player 'American Express' by German producer Harry Thumann, a contemporary of Giorgio Moroder and Patrick Cowley... think 'Geoff Love at Studio 54' and you'll get the general idea!
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AR 055
18 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Aug 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Played by: FINGERMAN, Juno Recommends Disco, Rayko, Ilya Santana, Discoholic Ken, BRENDON P, Kongisto, FRAN DEEPER, Warriors of the Dystotheque, Saint-Loup-en-Bray
Review: Born back in 2008, Rayko's Rare Wiri mark their 200th release with an album-length compilation featuring 12 brand new cuts from what the man himself describes simply as "some of my favourite artists out there". The album starts out in laidback, Balearic mode with Secret Soul Society's 'Draw Of The Cards' and ends up back there with Manolo's 'By The Moon', but in-between you'll find the looping, funked-up deep house of Fran Deeper's 'Lost Baby', the shape-throwing 80s Faltermeyer-isms of Kelton Prima's 'The Beggining', Ilya Santana's floor-friendly cover of Vangelis's 'Dervish D', the electro nouveau of From Beyond's 'Star Slip' and more besides. Here's to 200 more!
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RW 200
26 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
26 Jun 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Spanish don Ilya Santana returns to Rare Wiri and ropes in Scandinavian counterpart Rune Lindbaek on remix duties. In its Original form, 'Cosmos Rising' - as you can probably guess from the title alone - comes from that part of the musical spectrum where Italo/cosmic disco and progressive house/melodic techno collide, and as such should work on any floor where they like it big, bold and trippy. But it's the Rune Lindbaek Remix that nudges it for yours truly, being an even bigger, bolder and trippier pass with warehouse-friendly kicks and some added spoken vocal samples paying homage to the special magic of the mushroom.
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RW 183
27 Feb 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
27 Feb 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Stalwart of the nu-disco scene Ilya Santana is back this week with the sixth installment of his Edits series on his beloved Astrolead Recordings. It features the low slung Latin vibes of
"Yoruba" (Ilya Santana Extra instrumentation rework), some slo-mo balearica in the form of "Blackout" (Ilya Santana edit) through to a classic disco heater such as "Radiation" (Ilya Santana edit) and some Moroder-ish cosmic synth journeys like Magnifique".
"Yoruba" (Ilya Santana Extra instrumentation rework), some slo-mo balearica in the form of "Blackout" (Ilya Santana edit) through to a classic disco heater such as "Radiation" (Ilya Santana edit) and some Moroder-ish cosmic synth journeys like Magnifique".
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AR 040
16 Dec 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Dec 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: The trio of Ilya Santana, Rune Lindbaek and Rayko is surely a line-up to get any nu-disco lover's mouth watering, but do be aware that the clue's very much in the title here, with all three producers drawing heavily on Spanish/Latin influences - Lindbaek's 'Moonlight', in particular, may invoke memories of sangria-sozzled evenings on youthful package holidays. Conversely, if you're NOT a huge fan of Latin sounds generally, then Santana's 'Fresa' is probably the one to head for, operating as it does in slightly more typical nu-disco territory, with only the vocal and strings bringing a hint of Latin flava.
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RW 170
31 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
31 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
