Review: Hot on the heels of a recent, well received deep house excursion on Paper, Norwegian producer BG Baarregaard pops up on Swedish edit label DiscoDat with a pair of white hot scalpel reworks. "Out Of Space, Out Of Time" adds a heavy house pulse to Electrik Funk's 1982 Prelude classic "On A Journey", cleverly combining elements from the vocal and instrumental versions on a thrillingly spacey rework. "The Void" has more of a European feel, sounding like a cross between the muscular, arpeggio-heavy throb of Munich Machine, the tongue-in-cheek cheeriness of Italo-disco, and the melodious, organic feel of obscure Balearica. The results are both dancefloor-friendly and impressive, despite the laidback feel of the chiming melodies.
Review: Southampton's Evil Smarty has been collaborating with the likes of Bad Barbie recently, but here he's doing his own thing. He's been busy too, chopping up five choice cuts, highlights being the mantra-like 80s funk loops of "The One", the rough and raunchy disco pumper "Hotel" and the Gino Soccio-borrowing sultry grind of "Dancer".
Review: A relative newcomer on the re-edit scene, La Tuerie now finds himself getting another boost with a release on Disco Tech's DiscoDat imprint. He's come up with the goods too, rustling up four tough but tasty nuggets of disco-house. Highlights include the lazy jazz funk loops of "Fall", the slow-slam of ecstasy houser "Love X Love" and the deep garage of "Back For More".
Review: Serbian disco head Tonbe has previously impressed with a string of EPs in which he effortlessly joins the dots between disco, funk, soul and house. On this debut album, he's at it again, delivering a 10-track collection of contemporary disco-funk jams smothered in clipped guitars, rubbery basslines, sturdy house beats and rasping horns. While the formula is simple, the results are never less than excellent. From the winding flute solo and double bass pressure of "Double Bass Rules" and loose funk shuffle of "Horny & Sexy", to the smooth Hammond and swinging beats of "Raw Taste", Detective's Story is a veritable sprint through head-nodding, toe-tapping, hip-wigglin' dancefloor goodness.
Review: Stockholm's Discodat label is pushing a Scandinavian sound that's pretty distant from the kind of Scandi EDM floating about these days. With this debut from Nordstorm though, the label ventures a little from their soul/funk/disco re-edit ethos into more deep synthpop territory. The Jessie Ware-esque "All We Need" is dripping in luxuriant mid '80s pop-dance production, "Set It Out" is beyond smooth - heavy layers of snow-washed keyboards fizzing over a Balearic backdrop. Finally "Clair De Reve" is an orgy of bass and DX7 pads; just think 'Miami Vice club scene' and you'll get the picture. Slick.
Review: Who'd ever have thought that when the nights grow dark and cold, the exotic disco we turn to for warmth would be supplied by a Siberian producer? Well, it's true, and here, Alexander Chebankov aka Sunner Soul delivers three more sizzlers to keep the frostbite at bay. This time produced without his pal Banana Lover, "Hey" is all laid back and loungey guitar funk, "Mysterious Investigator" is seriously cool bass and bongos driven disco-fizz and "Street Madness" wraps things up with shimmering and golden phaser-heavy looped grooves. Hot!
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