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Review: Some 11 years after making their bow Mireia founders RSS Disco are finally ready to drop their debut album, Mooncake. It's an atmospheric and stylish affair all told, with the Hamburg-based threesome offering a wealth of high-quality tracks in their now trademark style. That means a boundary-blurring blend of sparkling nu-disco, crunchy post-electro, new wave revivalism and the chugging, arpeggio-driven pulse of vintage Italo-disco. Our picks of a strong bunch include starry, melodious throb-job 'Irusu', dreamy shuffler 'Bay Owl', the sunny and immersive 'Firm Shake', glassy-eyed slow-motion number 'Blinkenlights' and suitably cosmic recent single - and title track - 'Mooncake'.
Review: Hamburg-based trio RSS Disco recruit Scandidisco don Prins Thomas to remix the latest offering on their own Mireia label. My notes for 'Mooncake' in its original form read simply "slow and dense" - that's not a description of the artists, you understand, but rather of the moody, claustrophobic feel to the track, which is sure to find its way into many an afternoon, warm-up or afterhours set, and which sports a very Euro-sounding spoken female vocal. For dancefloor action, though, the man from Oslo's Diskomiks is likely the better bet, as he ups the tempo just slightly while adding some dubwise flourishes.
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Review: Mireia's latest EP is something of an all-star affair, with a quintet of well-regarded artists and up and coming producers contributing cuts. Polish studio buff Das Komplex kicks things off with the Balearic-minded, bass guitar-driven dancefloor positivity of "Las", before Johannes Klingbeil doffs a cap to Kraftwerk and cheery '80s synth-pop on the wonderfully melodious "Boys Club". Elsewhere, Manual Binder joins forces with Julian Stetter on the exotic deep house/nu-disco fusion of "Porto", RSS disco dips the tempo on the warm and woozy "We'll Sea" and Conga Fever takes a deep dive into jazz guitar-laden ambient house pastures on the sun-kissed and loved-up closer "Family Affairs".
Review: Mireia's latest EP is something of an all-star affair, with a quintet of well-regarded artists and up and coming producers contributing cuts. Polish studio buff Das Komplex kicks things off with the Balearic-minded, bass guitar-driven dancefloor positivity of "Las", before Johannes Klingbeil doffs a cap to Kraftwerk and cheery '80s synth-pop on the wonderfully melodious "Boys Club". Elsewhere, Manual Binder joins forces with Julian Stetter on the exotic deep house/nu-disco fusion of "Porto", RSS disco dips the tempo on the warm and woozy "We'll Sea" and Conga Fever takes a deep dive into jazz guitar-laden ambient house pastures on the sun-kissed and loved-up closer "Family Affairs".
Review: Hailing from Cologne, Germany, Johannes Klingbiel is a busy guy - DJing everywhere from Berlin to Mexico and playing in a multitude of bands (all this on top of his own solo productions too!). Here he serves up a new EP for Mireia and it's a triumph of synth emotions. There are six works on here, all of which are stunning, but particular highlights include the eerie, haunted 4/4 house of the title track, the woozy, gated waves of the David August-esque "Where Is U" and the total tearjerker, "Forever Yours": a New Romantic Bladerunner-style cloudsurfer of a tune.
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