Review: A single release here for a track that first saw the light of day on Tonbe's 'My Touch' long-player back in July 2021... which explains why this writer has spent the week scratching his head and wondering where he'd heard the vocal before! "Truly sublime" is how I described 'Beside Me' back then and 25 months have done nothing to diminish its appeal: that sultry, jazzy, exotic-sounding vocal still cuts through like a knife while there's a Morel's Grooves-ish quality to the ass-shakin' backbeat. In a just world, this would be THE summer anthem of 2023 but that, of course, is up to you...
Review: Tonbe's latest, the fairly self-explanatory 'Nu Disco Meets Synthwave Vol 1', packs a whopping 20 tracks, but while the Serbian nu-disco don puts out plenty of hefty releases, this one's a little different, serving as a kind of 'best of' compilation, with six of the tracks served up in both vocal and instrumental versions. As such, regular buyers may have much of what's here already, but no matter, because this reviewer has spent the past two years telling anyone who's interested (and quite a few that weren't) that the stab at the 0:31 mark in 'Easy Dancin' is the most perfect three seconds of audio recorded so far this millennium, and now here's a chance to do so all over again... a great collection from a great producer.
Review: The ever-prolific Milos Djordjevic AKA Tonbe AKA Loshmi returns to his own Fruity Flavor with, as is par for the course, a single-track release - the general idea seems to be that Disco Fruit is the home for his EP and album-length releases, while Fruity Flavor seems to be reserved for the trackier stuff. So it is here, certainly, because 'Too Far Away' really ain't nothin' but a groove: more specifically, a no-nonsense chugger with crisp hats and a fat-bottomed bassline underpinning looped organ doodles, jazz-funk guitar squiggles, horn parps and just a hint, in the mid-section, of acid throb. One to keep 'em moving for sure.
Review: Two very fine laidback summer grooves here from Mexican nu-disco producer Hotmood, both of which can be filed under funk or disco as you see fit. The all-instrumental 'Let's Ride' is a lolloping slo-mo chugger that packs some serious weight in the bottom end and sports a curiously squelchy aquatic-sounding bassline, the latter augmented by guitar chops, mournful horns and some sprightly piano sprinkles. The accompanying 'My Disco Collection' is a little more upbeat, and features a spoken vocal that sounds like it was recorded at a recent meeting of Cratediggers Anonymous! For maximum impact, just add sunshine.
Review: If you like your deep house served with a hefty dose of funk and a twist of jazz, then these two tracks from Mexican producer Hotmood should be right up your street. The vaguely Sneak-y title track is as joyous an excursion into the heart of jazz piano riffery as you'll hear all week, its virtuoso ivory licks sitting atop smooth-rollin' house beats and augmented by periodic "yes Mr Funkyman!" vocal shouts. The accompanying 'Clean Cuts' is a sparser affair that sports snatches of southern soul-style male vocal - it's plenty playable but perhaps one for the warm-up, whereas 'Mr Funkyman' has "peaktime" written all over it.
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