Review: Draw a line from boogie to Balearica, via Italo disco and deep house, and somewhere along that arc you'll find this latest V/A collection from Manchester's long-running Paper Recordings. Crazy P have been in the Paper camp since the early days so are a fitting choice to open proceedings with the gloriously hazy 'Last Knockers', after which other standouts for yours truly include the slow-building, prog-leaning acid of Anisto Tropics' 'Topaz', Natasha Kitty Katt's typically infectious remix of Diskobeistet's 'Gammal Morro' and the sunny, summery disco-house of Benny Pitcher's 'Transatlantic Motion', until finally MADe's 'You're The One' plays us out on a mellower, more downtempo note.
Review: Since working on the Northern Disco Lights documentary a few years ago, Paper Recordings has consciously championed new artists from the Scandinavian country's thriving electronic music scene. They've uncovered another here, "Fjord funk" specialists MAde. Their sound is more Royksopp than Todd Terje or Prins Thomas, though their use of colourful synths and clear boogie influences makes them a unique offering. In its original form 'You're The One' is a wonderfully pitched down Balearic synth-pop number rich in dubby bass, grandiose synthesizer chords, quirky lead vocals from Mirjam Ondal is immersive electronics. It comes backed with two remixes - a tidy nu-disco meets deep house take from Art Bleek and a warming, dub-influenced downtempo revision courtesy of Third Attempt - while bonus cut 'Optics' is a bolder chunk of Scandolearic nu-disco/deep house fusion.
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