Purveyor of all things nice, sugar and spice, Boite Music is a constant source of inspiration for the disco tripper and E-dancer. Embracing all manner of obscure synth, chugging Balearic and power disco, it’s marquee artists are found in Ainz, Ivan Fabra and Manuela Costela next to the odd Rayko and Alex Aguyao featurette too. Topped in the charts by Pete Herbet, Fran Deeper and Sauco furthermore, Boite Music prides itself on delivering a reliable, steady stream of new wave dance music for no matter the discotheque.
Review: The '80s are back in spades thanks to Boite Music and the quad of artists that make up this various artist EP. Sweeping that decade's genres with the industrial and poppy tones of AINZ's "Rocking With Loles", Ruben Coslada looks to contemporary krautrock and italo disco influences in "Bit Dry" while Alberto Melloni's "Master Of Origami" goes cruisin' USA backed by some self help and relationship advice from the venerable indian philosopher Krishnamurti. For the coldwave and and rock heads out there, it's all about Alex Arcocha's "Forbidden". Hey teacher, leave those kids alone!
Review: Despite working under an Italian name - 'altoparlante' is Italian for 'loudspeaker' - Altoparlante actually hails from Mexico City. Here, after several releases on Spa In Disco, he comes to recently launched sub-label Boite Music, which was set up to explore "the dark side of different kinds of electronic music". 'Te Vo A Llevar' opens with mournful trumpet and a nagging electronic disco beat (both of which play throughout) before introducing the very 80s-sounding sing-song male vocal, sung in Spanish, and is likely to prove most popular with those who like to pepper their club sets with global music influences.
Review: Release #11 here from Boite Music, a sub-label of Fran Deeper's Spa In Disco that was launched late last year and specialises in slightly darker, more leftfield sounds influenced by indie-dance, Italo, synth-wave and Balearica. Italo/cosmic disco lovers will lap up the contributions from Fausto and AINZ, while Ric Piccolo's 'Tus Secretos' sits somewhere between Nang-style nu-disco, progressive house and 80s synth-pop. The pick for this reviewer, though, is Fred Berthet & Berry's 'Hedonist', which has a slightly more upbeat, house-y feel than the rest of the EP despite operating in very similar musical territory.
Review: Slamming disco tech boogie from Boite Music's From Beyond that brings remixes from Sauco and Mi.ro on this Dial Operator single. Pushing a heavy 80s synth tip on the title track this is real driving music surely designed for the club. Sauco sends his version through phase filter or dubby funk and Laurie Anderson motifs while keeping the original's beat intact, with Mi.ro turning to something deep and dubby in his bass-centric remix. Operator please!
Review: Given a debut proper on Boite Music following a series of cuts spread across a selection of various artist releases, it sees the Spanish producer deliver three muscular, musical and disco-powered electronic burners that arguably make up the label's strongest release to date. Leading with something melodic and trancey (with the slightest touches of baerlic post-punk) in its lead cut, Fabra's sounds burst through the speakers all the more in "Hey! Found Da". With a spectacular slice of star-sailing synth music rounding out a trio of hugely explosive dance tracks, there's no denying the quality of Fabra's studio and output here. Rider of the storm!
Review: Bringing a sweet middle eastern vibe of vocals and traditional guitars to "Istanbul", Jason Core hits at the sweet spot as to why the Turkish capital is loved and adored by so many. Pitching the sound of euro dance with primitive electronics and pulsating Ibiza grooves, Sauco's mix turns in a slight industrial and instrumental disco vibe, placing heavy drums up front that allow the original's guitars to haunt the background. Sunset electronica.
Review: Roam Recordings head honcho Jason Peters is up next on Boite Music: the new sub label of Mallorca-based Spa In Disco. You're in good hands with this Californian scene veteran on "Kensington '' a groovy slab of nu-disco goodness with a noirish swagger, that chugs away in a fashion that you've come to expect from the man. Spanish percussionist and producer G. Zamora hops onboard for a woozy and hypnotic remix, complete with charming latin vocals. The San Francisco-based Peters then closes it out with the dark disco throb-job of "Along The Road". More great material from Fran Deeper's label that's worthy of your attention.
Review: Mexican artist La Guardia De La Luz continues to notch up releases on much-loved labels, with this outing on Boite Music following well-regarded EPs for Rare Wiri, Hell Yeah and Paper Recordings. The headline attraction is undoubtedly title track 'Teleport', a near ten-minute slab of ear-pleasing aural colour that adds jaunty organ stabs, intergalactic ambient chords, deep space melodies and swirling electronics to a head-nodding, hip-hop style downtempo beat. The producer's interest in the star-gazing end of ambient and Balearica continues on '3D25D (The Prophet-Earth's Bifurication)', while 'Antennae' is a hypnotic, locked-in chugger rich in spacey electronic. On 'Buen Viaje' the Mexican cannily blurs the boundaries between bleeping deep house and shuffling Balearic nu-disco, hefore 'Gamma/Ghost Heart' gently brings us back down to earth via gaseous chords, delay-laden melodies and enveloping ambient textures.
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