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Rare Wiri Spain
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Arba Spak & Ruiz-Gonzalez - "El Mar Que Habito" (feat Maya Endo - La Guardia De La Luz Playa Sudamericana mix) - (9:24) 116 BPM
RW 278
23 Dec 24
Balearic/Downtempo
23 Dec 24
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: If you enjoy sample-spotting, you're gonna love this new EP from Cal Gibson's Secret Soul Society. The title track places vocal samples from 'The Warriors' over the guitar riff from Oliver Cheatham's 'Get Down Saturday Night' (or one that sounds very similar), while 'Devil's Dub' lifts chunks of dialogue from Steve McQueen classic 'Bullitt' and marries them to bites from CJ & Co's 'Devil's Gun'. Elsewhere, 'Better Watch Out' fuses deep house and Balearica while the squelchier 'Party 2Gether' features a chanted vocal that's almost certainly from some old funk record, albeit exactly WHAT old funk record we couldn't tell you...
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RW 271
04 Nov 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
04 Nov 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Three tracks of predictably high-calibre electronic disco here from Rayko, coming as ever on his own Rare Wiri imprint. 'Mexico '86' itself gets the ball rolling, topping ominous 'War Of The Worlds'-esque synths with a spoken, sampled male vocal talking about "the survival of the human race". Though relatively simple, it has energy to spare and should suit your nu-disco dancefloor needs well, while the EP is completed by the 80s stylings of 'Power', with its chanted vox and cut-up, dubwise production, and 'Race', which despite the name is a lower-tempo, more atmospheric affair that'll suit warm-ups and longer sets.
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RW 270
28 Oct 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
28 Oct 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: He might be a big wheel in the Balearic-minded nu-disco scene, but Rayko original cut his teeth as a re-editor, serving up countless EPs of tidy and on-point revisions. Of late, he's started compiling some of his favourite 'reworks' from the archive - including plenty of previously unavailable scalpel jobs - and whacking them out as compilations. There's plenty to savour on this second selection, with highlights including the intergalactic slo-mo hypnotism of 'Space Trip (Omega Mix)', the pulsating, mid-tempo Italo-disco throb of 'Towers', the mid-80s synth-pop dub flex of 'Games Above My Head', the rubbery synth-bass and punchy electro beats of 'Need a Freak', the spaced-out electrofunk excellence of 'Street Ranger' and the delay and guitar solo-laden moodiness of 'Can't Find My Way'.
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RW 266
30 Sep 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
30 Sep 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Ricochet are the Brooklyn, NYC-based duo of Afreen and Davide Golin, and cite their influences as "synth-pop, Italo disco, Italian pop and European film scores". That list doesn't specifically include the Pet Shop Boys, but the sparkly synths and wistful, high-pitched vocals of 'Always' suggest that the output of Messrs Tennant and Lowe has featured quite heavily in the duo's listening over the years! The track was first released back in December last year but now comes with a brace of remixes from Prins Thomas, who strips back some of the layers and toughens up the bottom end for maximum club system impact.
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RW 261
26 Aug 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
26 Aug 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
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RW 258
05 Aug 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
05 Aug 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Three tracks of heavily electronic and (mostly) 80s-leaning disco here from Spanish master Rayko, coming as ever on his own Rare Wiri imprint. Up first is 'Hannya', which opens with shimmering synths but soon drops down into a sleazy industrial funk groove that recalls the Steel City likes of Cabaret Voltaire or Chakk. 'More I Like It' is a darker, Euro-style chugger with a definite mid-80s kinda feel, while the package is completed by 'Napole', which marries more traditional-style disco strings to plaintive woodwind sounds and a female vocal sung in Spanish (or possibly Italian?).
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RW 256
22 Jul 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
22 Jul 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
Review: Of all the genres and sub-genres of music that have ever been, cosmic disco is probably one of the least well-defined... which right now is a good thing because it gives the selectors of this second 'Cosmic Memories' collection a pretty free hand. Accordingly, the tracks here run a broad musical gamut from fluffy, Balearic-leaning cuts like Ivo Del Prado's 'Summer Piano', Manolo's 'Phobos' and La Guardia De La Luz's 'Better Daze' to the borderline trance of Kay-chi & Keymon's 'Patches Of Light', with highlights for this reviewer including the menacing Cold War throb of Sauco's 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' and label boss Rayko's fusion-tastic 'Drive'.
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RW 253
01 Jul 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
01 Jul 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Rayko
Review: Buckle up, people, because Rayko's Rare Wiri label are taking us on a journey to the heart of disco dancefloor darkness, in the company of the mysterious Manner of Speaking, who delivers three tracks that defy easy categorisation. 'Al Centro, Pa Dentro' is all chugging, stuttered synth-bass and sci-fi FX, while 'Dreamcatcher' itself comes on like 80s synth-pop given a wonked-out, small-hours refix. Completing the EP is 'Et Alors', which starts out all glitchy and experimental but slowly builds into something more anthemic as it progresses. An EP to lose yourself in.
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RW 250
10 Jun 24
Balearic/Downtempo
10 Jun 24
Balearic/Downtempo
Arba Spak & Ruiz-Gonzalez - "El Mar Que Habito" (feat Maya Endo - La Guardia De La Luz Fff remix) - (10:02) 116 BPM
Arba Spak & Ruiz-Gonzalez - "El Mar Que Habito" (feat Maya Endo - La Guardia De La Luz Listen To Gallerani remix) - (6:53) 116 BPM
Arba Spak & Ruiz-Gonzalez - "El Mar Que Habito" (feat Maya Endo - La Guardia De La Luz Playa Sudamericana mix) - (9:24) 116 BPM
Arba Spak & Ruiz-Gonzalez - "El Mar Que Habito" (feat Maya Endo - La Guardia De La Luz El Ambiente remix) - (8:41) 77 BPM
Played by: Rayko
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RW 245
06 May 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
06 May 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Rare Wiri bring us three new rubs of the tracks that made up German nu-disco regular Andy Bach's 'If You Leave' EP, released in November last year. Romanto's take on 'Come On Now' strips away the deep house elements and transforms it into a hazy summer nu-disco jam, Stephane Deschezeaux's Organic Remix of 'Dimesions' injects a little more funk and soul into what was quite a trippy, Balearic-leaning original, before 'If You Leave' - a fairly 'accessible' and pop-oriented nu-disco cut in its original form - gets handed over to label boss Rayko, whose rework gives it a deeper, more underground kinda feel.
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RW 242
15 Apr 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
15 Apr 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Leeds-based Jay Dixon AKA Jay-Son specialises in dark, moody electronic disco and has chalked up releases on such labels as Rare Wiri, When Disco Goes Wrong, Paisley Dark and Nein Records, among others. Here he returns to the former with a two-track release: 'Into The Infinity Of Light' is a throbbing, pulsating workout that blends influences from Italo disco, Belgian new beat, coldwave and acid house, topping the lot with rave-y "come on!" shouts, while the accompanying 'Such A Vibration' is a hazier affair that operates at a much slower tempo and makes good use of some classic Loleatta vocal snips.
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RW 241
08 Apr 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
08 Apr 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Rayko teams up once more with Elena Hikari to deliver the pair's second joint long-player, following on the heels of 2023's 'Tu Alma Y La Mia'. But while that first album was good, this one's exceptional! Cinematic, cosmic opener 'Too Much' sets the tone but it's the second track, 'Nunca James', that really hits you in the face: it's a slow-burning monster, with Hikari's haunting vocal earning it a place in the box marked "truly sublime". 'Looking To Edge' is another BIG track that probably needs to be heard on a 4am dancefloor to be truly appreciated; after that you get four more cuts that blur the lines between cosmic/Italo disco, Balearica, coldwave, house and pop (including a new version of 'Extraordinarylove' from the first album) before the title track, another deep, slo-mo chugger, plays us out in very fine style. Excellent work!
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RW 238
18 Mar 24
Balearic/Downtempo
18 Mar 24
Balearic/Downtempo
Played by: Monkey Boots, Irregular Disco Workers, FINGERMAN, Disco Tech (DiscoDat), Juno Recommends Disco, Rayko, FRAN DEEPER, Mark van der Ree, Saint-Loup-en-Bray
Review: Given the prolific output of his Rare Wiri label, it's a wonder Rayko finds time to get in the studio at all. But he does, regularly - and when he's not producing synthy, 80s-flavoured nu-disco jams of his own, he somehow also manages to fit in the odd cheeky re-edit or 20! Here, then, a score of such reworks are served up for your listening and dancing pleasure, with the emphasis firmly on lesser-known gems - sources include Ann Peebles, Diana Ross, Quincy Jones, Break Machine, Michael Sembello and Earl Flint, as well as US folk-rocker Barbara Keith's version of 'All Along The Watchtower', but there are plenty more that will have to go unidentified. Suffice to say, though, that if funk, disco, boogie, electro and pop from the 70s and 80s float your boat, this collection will leave you positively buoyant!
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RW 232
05 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
05 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
