Review: Following years spent flitting between labels including Toy Tonics and Razor N Tape Reserve, COEO make their bow on Shall Not Fade. In keeping with the Bristol label's approach to digital releases, it's an expansive and action-packed affair. Title track 'Planet Earth' is one of the Munich-based duo's more forthright cuts to date - a thrusting, bongo-laden techno tempo rave workout propelled forwards by an insanely good (and rubbery) electronic bassline and psychedelic acid lines aplenty - while 'Satellite Bay' sounds like a cross between early '90s synth-pop, Kraftwerk and Euro-dance. Elsewhere, 'Rush Hour' gloriously joins the dots between hip-house, vintage MK productions and the Pet Shop Boys' Relentless' album; 'Kawasaki Racing Club' combines breakbeats and early UK progressive house sounds; and 'The Stage Is Yours' is a head-nodding, midtempo acid breaks affair.
Review: Some artists sit on their albums forever, tinkering around the edges of 'em for years. And then there are the likes of Greg Foat, who's released no fewer than 19 long-players, either solo or in collaboration with various others, since - wait for it - 2017, mostly on Athens Of The North. This latest offering, though, is his fourth for Blue Crystal and is a live set that showcases his eclectic style perfectly, ranging as it does from the near-ambient synth doodlings of 'Pool Side' parts 1, 2 and 4, to futuristic jazz excursions ('Pool Side Pt 3'), experiments in deep, acidic house ('Dining Table Grooves') and lush jazz-funk ('Sunset Part 2'). And if you like what you hear, suffice to say there's plenty more where that came from!
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