Review: 13 months after delivering his last EP of original music for Citizens of Vice, Nottingham producer Lanowa returns to the imprint with 'My Fantasy' - a gorgeous chunk of summery deep house bliss that rolls along at a toe-tapping 150 BPM and makes great use of Balearic acoustic guitar flourishes and sweet, soulful vocal snippets. Choose between radio edit and (in our opinion superior) extended edit versions, before diving headlong into a trio of reworks from Sheffield heavyweight Crooked Man. The 'Chapter 1' mix is a slowly building slab of sun-splashed Balearic disco loveliness, while the 'Chapter 2' take is a dubbed out, spaced-out, cowbell-driven chunk of late-night mid-tempo house sleeve blessed with a filthy analogue bassline. The former All Seeing I member rounds things of with the sub-heavy, subtly broken beat influenced 'Chapter 3' mix.
Review: Two tracks in a total of five mixes make up this EP from Kokoro Disco-San, AKA the Barcelona-based trio of Lalo Lopez, Miguelito Superstar and Thompson. In its Original form, 'Sunshine' is an unsurprisingly summery and mellow nu-disco joint that, as we move on up through the Beach Bum Edit and SPF76 Mix rubs from label boss JKriv, gets progressively more electronic, the former adding an 80s squelch b-line and the latter throwing in some fine stabs, while 'Jungle Deep' is a slice of moody tropical disco served with or without a spoken female vocal. I'd go 'with' if I were you...
Review: Roam Recordings regular Jason Peters - AKA the artist formerly known as JP Soul - has delivered scores of fine EPs over the last few years, offering up an off-kilter, heavily electronic take on cosmic disco that tends towards the trippy. 'Lost In Space', his latest single, continues in this vein, with Peters' layering vintage, new wave and Italo style synth stabs - ofen smothered in tape delay - over a chugging, sequenced bassline and unfussy machine drums. The Juan MacLean opt for a pulsating, mind-altering dark-Italo sound on their top-notch remix, before Prins Thomas steals the show with a spiralling, stretched out 'Diskomiks' that sees the Norwegian veteran reach for his usual mixture of live percussion, dub disco grooves and off-kilter disco instrumentation.
