Review: Good morning ladies and gentlemen, and welcome aboard this Footjob Airlines flight to Disco Heaven. Your pilot for this journey is label boss Phonk D, and along the way we'll be stopping at 'Vertico' to take onboard some no-nonsense rolling deep disco-house goodness, after which we'll be entering the stratosphere via the jazz-funk licks and Afro percussion of 'Restless Legs' and the unshamedly feel-good vibes of 'Calypso'. Our final port of call before arrival at our final destination will then be 'That's What She Said', the most faithfully 70s-sounding of the four tracks on offer. But please remember, no dancing in the aisles...
Review: There's naturally plenty to set the pulse racing on this collection of "Footure Classics" (we chuckled, at least) from Phonk D's reliable Footjob imprint. Former Stupid Human regular Le Rubique kicks things off with the loose and groovy "Pata Pata", where elongated organ chords, disco style bass guitar motifs, parping synth-horns and classic Afrobeat vocal samples ride a live-sounding house groove. Phonk D and Triotitat offer some deeper and dreamier thrills via the classic piano house flex of "Another Piano Song", before Lukas Lehmann and Pallaspeople serve up a more low-slung tech-tinged take on deep house blessed with serious alien synthesizer sounds. To round things off, Sascha Ciminiera steals the show via "Don't Bring That Low", a rolling and groovy peak-time workout smothered in snaking horn solos and huggable piano riffs.
Review: Bessungen-based Lukas Lehmann made his digital download debut a decade ago, making this follow-up one of the most belated in history. Hopefully, the This is Why EP will be a springboard to further success, because it's really rather good. He kicks things off with "Q&H", a springy, loose and attractive house cut rich in disco style Clavinet lines, bustling bass, tumbling synthesizer lines and the kind of mind-altering organ solos that made Jaydee's "Plastic Dreams" so irresistible. Elsewhere, "So Fragile" wraps cascading, twinkling electronic melodies around a chunky, piano-heavy deep house groove, while "Nothing But a Heartache" is that rarest of beasts: a melancholic disco-house cut. Speaking of disco-house, Lorenz Rhode's rework of "Q&H" is a slap-bass boasting treat.
Review: Two years on from his last outing, Sascha Ciminiera returns to Phonk D's Footjob label with another chunk of fluttering, synth-heavy positivity. Built around a languid and fluid mid-tempo groove, "Lights" is rich in positive melodies, Balearic chord progressions and tumbling synthesizer motifs. It's a cliche to refer to records being "sun-kissed", but this is genuinely an exercise in summery beauty. The headline remixes come from Gerd Janson and Philip Lauer under their Tuff City Kids alias. They predictably push the track's more Balearic elements to the fore on the electro-driven remix, before delivering a superb, cowbell-laden drum Dub for those who like to play around with percussion. A tidy package is completed by Phonk D's rolling house interpretation,
Review: For his latest audio adventure, Footjob founder Phonk D has joined forces with old pal Le Rubrique for a joint foray into the world of quirky disco-house. Opener "Flying Circus" is something of a cheeky dancefloor treat, and features the duo melding cut-up elements from a familiar, disco-era anthem with swinging house beats and a seriously chunk bassline. Borrowed Identity provides a smoother but still eccentric deep house revision of that tune, before Phonk and Rubrique wrap spacey, stretched-out synth chords over a snappy house groove on the quietly impressive "Latenight Flight". A tasty package is completed by the wonky, Syclops-style electronics, slipped Italo-disco arpeggio lines and hazy disco samples of "In The Air".
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