Review: Gerd Janson recently re-booted his Misfit Melodies imprint (an occasionally used subsidiary of Running Back) in order to sling out mixes of a track he made with Catz 'N' Dogz. Here he follows that up with another new set of remixes, this time of Storken's bold, bubbly and life-affirming Italo-disco/freestyle fusion gem 'Lille Vals'. The EP begins with another chance to savour the little-known producer's exciting and rush-inducing original mix, before Janson delivers a chunky, bass-heavy 'Talamanca Dub' that brilliantly re-casts the track as a saucer-eyed, pitched-down trip into slow-motion Balearic house territory. Elsewhere, Patrick Topping provides a surging, peak-time-ready revision that's as weighty and energetic as it is cheery (in part thanks to a raw analogue bassline), while the Ajaks mix is a throbbing, neo-trance delight.
Review: With five original tracks plus four remixes, you can call this an EP or album as you see fit. Either way, if you're a lover of Scandi-disco from the likes of Prins Thomas and Todd Terje - or indeed the spangly, 80s-tinged nu-disco regularly served up by Nang's revolving stable of eastern Europeans - then it's a collection that's well worth investigating. Bleeping, analogue-sounding synths are much in evidence throughout and positively demand that shapes be thrown on the dancefloor, while remix duties are taken care of by a couple of Scandi heavyweights, Per Hammar and the aforesaid Mr Thomas.
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