Review: The term 'Balearic' too often just means "light and fluffy" these days, but here's a five-track various artists EP that really captures the original eclectic, genre-defying Balearic spirit. Absentune's 'Sea Fog' is a midpaced electronic headnodder, Antaares's 'Osadi' takes us into downtempo pastures with birdsong, langorous synths and Spanish-language spoken vocal samples, while Tlazohtla's 'Lluvia Lunar' operates in similar territory but with a dubbier feel. The Valtierra & Die Jungle's slo-mo chugger 'Mon Frere' then urges us back onto the dancefloor with its off-kilter bleeps and ominous, rumbling bass, before Xaman's 'Ambar' plays us out on a dreamy, hypnotic note.
Review: 15 months after their collaborative album, 'MEXTAPE' landed in digital download stores, Ali X and Ximena offer up a third EP featuring fresh reworks of tracks from that set. As the title makes clear, the revisions on show are all rooted in house music, though often draw influence from other styles as well. For proof, check Marinko's EP-opening tweak on 'Banana Juz', which joins the dots between intergalactic electro and analogue-rich deep house, and Javier Martinez's new wave-goes-house re-wire of 'Vaija Volaras'. Elsewhere across the EP, Pvlomo delivers a deliciously low-slung, sub-heavy, mind-mangling tweak of 'Calor', Disco 86 re-imagines 'F*K U TIL U LUV ME' as a dirty and sleazy hip-hop head-nodder (complete with Mexican rap), and Lucia Haze's rework of 'Vaija Volaras' is a cheery, synth-heavy reggae-house shuffler.
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