Review: Rimini-based Duca Bianco has quickly established itself as one of the most interesting and on-point edits imprints around, primarily by showcasing subtle, floor-friendly rubs of thoroughly obscure, uncredited cuts from around the world. They're at it again on this fantastic multi-artist extravaganza. Franz Scala kicks things off via the clandestine, chugging, Italo-era Arabic new-wave funkiness of 'For Me', before celebrated London crate-digger and hyped selector CW offers up a punchy take on a horn-powered zouk gem ('Mind Zouk'). Der Sexa impresses with the druggy, delay-laden Germanic robo-disco of 'Gabi Plane', before Mancunian misfits Talking Drums reach for squally guitar solos, cosmic disco aesthetics and pulsating slo-mo grooves on 'DMNB'.
Review: For what is only their 12th-ever release, Rimini-based Italian label Duca Bianco bring us this four-tracker from hotly tipped Manchester disco/funk experimentalists Talking Drums. We're firmly in leftfield territory here, so if you were expecting immediately accessible mirrorball stomp, think again! Instead you get 'Other World' with its Afro drums, jazz organ and soul/lounge-style male vocal, the melancholic 80s-sounding torch-pop of 'Dolce Julia', the wonked-out sci-fi boogie of the dense, shuffling 'Voice Of Omicron' and the looping, summery Afro/tropical vibes of 'Monkey Key'. Dancefloors that relish a dose of the unexpected should definitely groove to this one.
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