Review: Polifonic used their debut release, a multi-artist EP called Itria, to set their stall out as a label dedicated to joining the dots between Afro-cosmic, dream house and other wide-eyed retro-futurist sounds. There's a similarly delicious, loved up feel about much of this sequel. Regular studio buddies Lipelis and Andy Butler (Hercules and Love Affair) express their love of Balearic house on the deliciously dreamy, Flamenco guitar-and-TB-303-sporting loveliness of 'Generations of Sunsets', before Eternal Love doff a cap to the greats of Italo-house on 'Kusai Riviera'. Elsewhere, Yu Su provides some predictably trippy, tribal-tinged, semi-ambient excellence (the hard-to-pigeonhole but lovely 'Oil'), while Benedek layers up the melodies, chords and loved-up sonic textures on 'Desperado'.
Review: If you're in the mood for some cross-generational dream house revivalism, you need to get your ears around this collaboration from contemporary Italian producers Dirty Channels and living legend Don Carlos. In its' luscious, EP opening 'Paradise Mix' form, 'Adriatico' boasts the same alluring, colourful and dreamy blend of rubbery synth-bass, snappy machine drums, immersive pads, fluttering flutes and rush-inducing piano motifs that made Carlos's turn-of-the-90s productions so sensational. The trio deliver a similarly delicious, piano-heavy peak-time dub, while Tom Trago reinvents it as an ultra-deep, near techno-tempo stomper and Axel Boman re-imagines it as a pitched-down, acid-flecked slow house bubbler. If you still want more loved-up lusciousness, bonus cut 'Tirreno' will genuinely hit the spot.
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