Review: Buoyed by the success of the Dimitri From Paris remixes of 'Space Talk', Naya Beat has decided to offer up more new reworks of classic cuts from the disco-era catalogue of Indian singer and actress Asha Puthli. Naturally Space Talk gets another tweak - Maurice Fulton delivers a sparse, percussive, dubbed-out take in his inimitable style -but there are plenty of revisions of lesser-celebrated cuts to enjoy. Yuksek turns 'I Am Song (Sing Me)' into a hybrid storming soul/surging Moroder-disco workout; Kraak & Smaak go all deep disco on the dreamy 'Lies'; Turbitto & Ragz add a touch of delay to the Indian disco-goes-Salsoul flex of 'One Night Affair'; 'Right Down Here' is turned into a spaced-out cosmic disco number by Psychemagik; and Jitwam adds a touch of 21st century weight to suspenseful disco gem 'I'm Gonna Dance'.
A Voyage North (Into Darkness) (Project Gemini rework) - (4:47) 79 BPM
Remember Empathy (Andres Y Xavi remix) - (4:09) 55 BPM
Walked For Days (piano solo) - (2:01) 140 BPM
Review: The Brighton-based duo of Glenn Fallows and Mark Treffel follow up 2021's 'The Globeflower Masters, Vol 1', which they described as a tribute to the great soundtrack and library composers of the 60s and 70s: think Ennio Morricone, Serge Gainsbourg, David Axelrod et al. Unsurprisingly, Volume 2 treads a similar path, though exactly what that path is, is hard to pin down: there are influences here from jazz, sci-fi film scores, lounge, psychedelia, various forms of world music and more besides - sometimes all in the same track! The tempo never really gets beyond walking pace so these cuts seeing any dancefloor action is unlikely, but if melancholy piano pieces, floaty Balearic excursions and moody film noir-esque sketches are your bag, this is a very pleasant way of whiling away an hour on the sofa.