Review: Nu-disco scene veterans Dagfest has been doing their thing since the dawn of the decade, in the process notching up tracks and EPs on such labels as Nang, Melodicoa, Editorial and Paper Disco. Even so, their first outing on Lovedancing is particularly impressive. Opener "Falling In Love" is bouncy, synth-bass-propelled revision of a little-known tropical disco jam (think soulful reggae vocals and colourful electronic lead lines) that's as summery as test cricket and England losing in a football semi-final. Tom Noble gives the track a more spacey feeling on his fine remix before the duo offers-up the sparkling Balearic boogie of "Prism". On the obligatory remix, Whiskey Disco chief Sleazy McQueen turns the cute and loved-up original into a slamming slab of disco-house (though happily, he has retained Dagfest's rather lovely synth solos).
Review: Since 2015, Tel Aviv twosome Rabo & Snob has been delivering annual releases on re-edit stable Whiskey Disco. Here they make the transfer to one of Sleazy McQueen's other imprints, Lovedancing, with some tasty original productions. "Yawumna", featuring Somma Idrisu, effortlessly underpins jangly acoustic guitars and African vocals with a metronomic nu-disco groove, while "Afia", featuring vocalist Azizaa, sounds like an unlikely fusion of Afrobeat and Adonis's "No Way Back". Art of Tones provides an organ-laden, sunshine-soaked Afro-house revision of "Yawumna", while Jacques Renault provides a suitably chunky dub of "Ifa" for those late night moments.
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