Review: Following years spent serving up high quality EPs on Cocktail D'Amore, Late Night City Tracks and Public Possession, DJ City (real name Johan Norling) returns to the latter label with his debut album, 'Paris, Rome'. Beginning with the dreamy, opiate deep house headiness of 'Cities In Dust', 'Paris, Rome' sees the Berlin-based artist wrap bright, colourful and loved-up musical motifs around vintage-sounding drum machine beats and on-point basslines. There are a few rougher and more raw-sounding excursions ¬- see the acid-fired, cowbell-driven jack-track 'Oh Ah' for starters - as well as subtle nods to the dreamier end of the Italo-disco spectrum, but for the most part it delivers an immersive and vivid take on nu-disco-tinged deep house that sounds as good at home as it does in the club.
Review: In its original form, 'Stockholm' closed out Baba Stiltz's most recent album, Paid Testimony, offering a woozy, spoken word-sampling slab of lo-fi downtempo pop. On this EP, the track gets the rework treatment - with predictably imaginative and impressive results. Naturally Stiltz delivers his own re-rub, reimagining the track as a deep and dusty outsider house workout that makes the most of the original's bluesy guitars. The most headline-grabbing revision comes from DJ Python, who reaches for exotic hand percussion patterns on a woozy and Balearic revision that bobs along at a deliciously slow tempo. Elsewhere, Klara Lewis combines drowsy, barely awake chords and weird tape manipulation sounds with experimental electronics, while Powder turns it into a clicking, lo-fi pop shuffler with added ambient house aesthetics.
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