Review: Spanish label Play Pal Music continues to deliver rock-solid, compilation style outings via the excellent 'Pals' series, which here reaches its eighth instalment via an eight-track blend of "robotic, exotic, hypnotic and sinister grooves". Rising star Thomass Jackson kicks things off via the guttural, eccentric house throb of 'Sexual Camel', before AckerMan delivers the acid-smothered peak-time dark disco exotica of 'Natura', and Martin Martin & Cali Burton join forces on Arabic-influenced new wave workout 'Weyno'. Elsewhere, we get more pulsating, arpeggio-driven dancefloor moodiness courtesy of Mmylo ('The Curve'), Hardway Brothers style psychedelic chug (Gunce Aci), Balearic niceness (Manner of Speaking), EBM-inspired melancholic muscularity (Sid Le Rock) and lo-fi, synth-laden melodiousness (Beartrax).
Review: To celebrate their eighth birthday, Play Pal Music has delved deep into its archives and put together two retrospectives of back catalogue tracks, "that sound as fresh now as when they were released". There's plenty to savour on this second volume, from the dubby, dark Italo-disco throb of Alda's 'Night Wolf', and the atmospheric, slow-motion chug of 'Cosmic' by Did Virgo, to the breaks-goes-new wave sleaziness of Fabio Me Llaman Soltero's strangely exotic 'Morena, Moreno (TYU REemix)' and the psych-rock-goes-kraut-disco hedonism of Mushrooms Project's 'Sake'. Throw in similarly impressive outings from Monoblock & PSLKTR (as remixed by Curses), Teniente Castillo and Vox Low, and you have a genuinely essential collection of inspired, off-kilter cuts.
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