Review: London's Duncan Gray aka Tici Taci is back on Marseille based indie dance imprint The Exquisite Pain, with three servings of retro flavoured grooves. "1983" is a fitting title for something that sounds like a victorious scene from Miami Vice with its rock guitar riffs and '80s synth presents all working in blissful harmony. "Bloomers" features rich vintage synth power; glimmering arpeggios face off with spangling leads for total trance induction while the title track "Broontoon" goes for some slow burning and grinding EBM flavour, which will no doubt appeal to the kind of retroverts following this rising label in recent times.
Review: Marseille based label The Exquisite Pain is back after a great release by fellow Frenchman Squarewave. Now it's the turn of Mexico's Lemon Mint who has done stuff previously on Hotbox and Deep Sense. He teams up with homeboy Supervo on "Lowriding" a deep, low slung nu-disco jam packed with enough funk and vibes of the cosmic kind for some serious travelling without moving if you know what we mean! Club Bizarre (Days Of Being Wild) deliver a wicked remix which stays true to the original but gives it more adrenalin and added dance-floor mojo. Finally Romanians the Gemini Bros deliver a fully tripped out cosmic excursion with some acidic bass and wonky synth leads to propel you into the cosmos.
Review: The Exquisite Pain is a Marseille based label specialising in deep house and Squarewave is fairly mysterious at this stage, all we can ascertain is that he's done stuff previously on Correspondant and the charmingly titled Rotten City. "Game Recreation" sounds like early Skinny Puppy on this dark retro EBM cut, it's pretty awesome. The chunky arpeggios from vintage synths continue on "Secret Passage" sounding more like The Pleasure Principle era Gary Numan while the Tronik Youth remix of it gets more on a chilled out Balearic tip which is well nice.
Review: For a rare trip away from his own Moodmusic label, Sasse tries his hand at drifting, stargazing disco. While this shouldn't come as much of a surprise given his fondness for nu-disco, "The Solaris Conspiracy" is still markedly different from anything he's released before. There are drifting strings, cascading pianos, warm guitars, live-sounding drums and oodles of nu-Balearic atmosphere .It all adds up to something rather special, and certainly his strongest disco effort to date. Remix-wise, check the formidable Francis Inferno Orhcestra rework. Sounding not unlike the ever-reliable Deep Space Orchestra, the Australian producer offers a delightful deep house makeover that's more robust than a shoulder charge from a burly bouncer.
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