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: Australian producer Jad & The Ladyboy is back for Marseille based label The Exquisite Pain following up some great releases by Dawad & Mokic, Squarewave and Lemon Mint. "John F Kennedy" is a sublime serving of deep house with the right amount of atmosphere and bounce, plus that vocal sample singing the praise for the late great President gives it that extra touch of emotion. Second track "Macintosh Mike & His Magic Modular" stays on with the woozy and mysterious vibes following in the tradition of greats such as Jimpster and Pezzner.
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: It's always rather enjoyable to hear artists gaining inspiration from anything other than the current hyped old genres and current hipster-matic sounds. This collaboration between Pascal Viscardi and Jean Obuchowicz mines a variety of old skool sources, from the early, acid-flecked work of "Brown Album"-era Orbital, to the happy-go-lucky, whistle-heavy productions of early 90s New York. The result is a track that's sparse and heavy, but just filled in enough to give a warm, well-rounded sound. Mark E goes darker, druggier and altogether tougher on his remix, which is arguably one of his strongest of recent times.
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.
Le Fou (Eddie C Space Sagittarius rework) - (7:11) 103 BPM
Soon Solitude (original mix) - (4:33) 106 BPM
Soon Solitude (Eddie C Ganaraska rework) - (6:22) 106 BPM
Review: You can usually rely on David 'Move D' Moufang to deliver the goods, especially when he's in full on ultra-deep mode. Here he joins forces with DJ Late for two ocean-deep excursions that simply bristle with subtle soul and hypnotic, late night intent. Lead cut "Le Fou" is particulary fine, offering just the right balance between crackly atmosphere and head-nodding bottom end groove. "Soon Solitude" is a tough brighter and breezier, building a positive vibe around a sampled blues vocal and some choice keys. Eddie C delivers remixes of both cuts, turning "Le Fou" on its head. Instead of darkness, he offers only dazzling light. It's a wonderful transformation.
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