Review: After impressing earlier in his career via fine EPs on El Diablo's Social Club and Silhouette, Lup Ino (real name Fiore Lupino) popped up on Masterworks Music earlier in the year with his first solo missive on Danny Worrall's prolific imprint. It was good, but this two-tracker for the same label is even better. Opener "Come On You" is a warm and celebratory disco-house style re-edit perfectly structured to tease maximum impact from the producer's lesser-known source material. If anything, the accurately titled "Just Funk" is even better, with Lupino successfully beefing up a horn-heavy, electric piano solo-sporting slab of disco-funk heaviness.
Review: If it's more trad-style, 70s/80s-sounding funk, disco and boogie grooves you're after, then you could do a lot worse, this week, than check for this four-track sampler from And Friends, the Bucharest-based "funk, disco and jackin' house" label headed up by Ezirk. The label boss is joined by Hotmood for the lively lil' roller that is 'Tremendo Boogaloo', before it's over to Ken@Work, who brings us the boogie-tastic 'Sit Back And Unwind'. Lup Ino's 'Secrets Of Your Mind' then brings the authentic crushed velvet suit vibes, before Funk Hunk's dense, percussive 'Freak With Me' plays us out.
Review: 13 months on from his last outing on NYLO, former El Diablo's Social Club and Silhouette sort Lup Ino makes his debut on Masterworks Music. The Italian producer hits the ground running with "You Can't Lose", a subtly tooled-up and house-friendly revision of a bold and breezy '80s soul jam, before reaching for the filters on a chunky, filter-heavy disco-house revision of a glassy-eyed old gem on "I Never Felt". Those with a hankering for a rolling house version of a crunchy disco-funk ham should check "Positive Love", while "Macumba Rocker" is a nod-along, mid-tempo shuffler that peppers a familiar disco groove with choice vocal samples and plenty of dub delays.
Review: A definite case of wearing your heart on your sleeve here, as Discoholics Anonymous serve up an eight-track collection of tracks built for when you and that special someone are (ahem) getting better acquainted. Some of the tracks here are straight-up re-edits - Gwen McCrae's "Let's Straighten It Out" becomes Lup Ino's "Tossing And Turning", while Billy Paul's "Let's Make A Baby" is reworked by The Found Sound Orchestra and FF Edits revisit a much-loved Bobby Caldwell classic. Others are seemingly original productions, while stylistically the album ranges from scratchy leftfield hip-hop to mellow Balearica to smooth soul... but as a set, it should serve its purpose perfectly.
Review: Alkalino's Audaz imprint has become the one stop shop for some of the most exciting adventures in modern deep house and nu-disco flavours. The Portuguese expat turned Munich machine now presents the second volume in his Audaz Heroes series, serving up over a dozen surefire grooves by up and coming talent from Germany and beyond. It's all killer no filler, rest assured, but for our money we can sure bet on: Italian Daniel Puz and his slow motion disco funk as displayed on "Elisir" or "Mulholland Drive" alike; the latter having a melody reminiscent of a certain Marvin Gaye classic. Elsewhere there's British expat in Dubai Andy Buchan with the dark Italo horror of "Dylan's Dream", Brooklynites Will Buck and PTRMNTO with the sexy and pumping late night groove "Hot 4 U" and of course head honcho Alkalino who serves up several killers but we particularly liked his deep down and dirty epic "Vulture".
Review: German label Audaz has been predominantly guided by its founder and bossman, Alkalino. The nimble and versatile producer has made sure that his label encompasses the full spectrum of house sounds, and his own productions have been there to led the cause. This time, however, he acts solely as A&R man in this tight, thirteen-track compilation names Audaz Heroes. All shades of house are included here, and there's not much we don't like the sound of. From the mechanical tech-house swings of "Give A Message" by Micka Blaster, to the deeper, more esoteric harmonics of the excellent "The Way" by Trobar, and the nutty, spaced-out nu-jazz of "Groove 1" by 54th Street Hustler, this compilation is not to be underestimated. Instead of relying on your usual, perhaps more hyped labels and artists, you should do yourself a favour and check this bad boy of a comp. Tipped and recommended!"
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