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Tici Taci
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Review: If your brain works like ours then you probably also sometimes think that it's perpetually the year 2020 also. To help us escape that wormhole is Tic Taci's 2020++ compilation that sends in 10 new and deeply cosmic electronic numbers that touch on disco, dub and the odd industrial post-wave session. This includes Jack Butters' remix of "Gone & Forgotten" next to a spaced out Balearic version of Field Of Dreams by Hardway Bros. Bossmann Duncan Grey delivers his own edit to Fjordfunk with its devilish vamp alongside some abstract acid by Martin Eve in "Small Time Hero". A trippy jam for the next time you gas it through the New Jersey turnpike with a cigar hanging out your mouth like Tony Soprano.
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TICITACI 072
26 Nov 21
Coldwave/Synth
26 Nov 21
Coldwave/Synth
Played by: Future Bones
Review: Uj Pa Gaz specializes in chugging, mind-altering fare that sits somewhere between slipped Balearica, dub disco and the kind of psychedelic mid-tempo grooves championed by Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston at their Love From Outer Space parties. The latter duo would no doubt love "L", the opening cut from the Albanian's latest EP on Tici Taci. Rich in undulating acid lines, drowsy shoegaze guitar flourishes, head-nodding beats and snaking electronics, it's arguably the release's most potent cut. That said, many of the same stylistic ingredients can also be heard on the similarly impressive, new wave influenced goodness of "Get Your Acid (featuring Duncan Gray)", while head-in-the-clouds closer "Sleep 4416" wraps cascading psychedelic indie-rock guitars around a formidable dub disco bassline.
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TICITACI 047
31 Aug 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
31 Aug 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Future Bones
Review: Uj Pa Gaz (aka Erlind Hoxha) is an Albanian musician who cut his teeth in bands with names like Germs. This is his new solo project though, and this time round he's on a slow and moody Balearic tip. "KuKu" is a brooding, meandering, slo-mo funk jam with lots of tension building guitar motifs, relentless percussion and an ominous chant. "On Rugs" is longer at almost seven minutes in length, and features delayed guitar chimes, more intense drumming and an overall Belgian new beat vibe. The title also reappears in a brighter electro-house-style remix by Did Virgo.
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TICITACI 033
24 Jun 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
24 Jun 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Based in London, Tici Taci specialise in "electric funk rekkids at tempos below 120BPM, with live instruments to the fore". Which makes the label the ideal home for this debut long-player from Albanian producer Uj Pa Gaz, AKA Erlind Hoxha. Across the album's eight tracks you'll find an enchanting cocktail of Balearic, Italo, EBM and straight-up disco influences, with standouts including the lazy, hazy 'Chuga' with its earworm of a whistling synth and 'Nepotik' with its unusual pairing of Underworld-ish synths and vocoder vox, until the gentle, beatless Spanish guitar piece 'Mallorca' brings the album to a more chilled close.
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TICITACI 063
31 Jul 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
31 Jul 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Uj Pa Gaz hails from Tirana, Albania and released his debut album 'Nepotik' on UK label Tici Taci back in 2020. Now, he returns to the imprint with two new, all-instrumental electronic disco workouts. 'Omo Can' itself is up first and rides a rock-solid 4/4 kick, atop which all manner of 80s-sounding synth squiggles and one sweeping, rising main riff vie for your attention, all held together by insistent, fluttering guitar. The accompanying 'Fritz' takes us down a heavier, darker route, and indeed sounds a bit like something you might hear at the party at the end of the world...
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TICITACI 083
14 Apr 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
14 Apr 23
Disco/Nu-Disco
Tronik Youth feat Justine
Played by: Richard Rossa, Markus Schneider / Robot Scientists, Future Bones, JAMES ROD, Somerville & Wilson
Review: Although Tronik Youth started off as an elector house expert, his very particular strain of nu disco is what's really caught on among our chart-folk. Here he is on Tici Tici with a sublime little horn-blaster in the form of "Always Waxing", a devious club lick that has that rare characteristic of not really belonging to any genre, but simply to the world of dancing. The trio of remixes come from Planet Jumper and his grizzly bass reinterpretation, Duncan Gray's deeper, broodier and absolutely killer version, and Steve Cook's more digi-friendly, paceman-reminiscent take.
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TICITACI 029
26 Feb 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
26 Feb 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Tronik Youth, Markus Schneider / Robot Scientists, Future Bones, Dynamicron (Los Grandes/Our Nights), Somerville & Wilson
Review: The ever reliable Tronik Youth is back with more of what he does best - providing neon-flecked electro-disco sizzlers for arpeggiated bass fiends. However, he always add a little extra spice to the formula, and on "Suicide Doors" he takes us on a hypnotic grind with heavy nod to the jackin' end of body music. Remix-wise, Inigo Vontier gets into a trancey acid zone, Future Bones slows things down into a throbbing analogue beast and Tici Taci ends things with a bit of perky Italo-disco.
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TICITACI 014
10 Nov 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
10 Nov 14
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Welsh crew The Long Champs bring us a track that takes its name from a 1978 story by Vivian Stanshall (of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band fame). In its Original form, 'Opsimath & Eremite' recalls the funkier side of late 70s/early 80s post-punk, while no fewer than four remixes explore other musical territories, frrom Ed Mahon's sinister techno growl to Alejandro Veneno's stripped-back, tripped-out disco, and from Martin Eve's slo-mo acid to Duncan Gray's tribal assault. Not one of the five rubs would be playable at your local Ritzy's, but between them they should keep more open-minded dancefloors grooving nicely.
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TICITACI 050
29 Mar 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
29 Mar 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Tici Taci regulars the Long Champs return to action with something different: an EP that contains three original cuts, rather than one plus remixes. They begin Tone Test with a chunk of feverish, foreboding creepiness: a kind of 21st century drug-chug take on the original 1988 version of the KLF's "What Time Is Love" with added low-end sleaziness ("A Postcard"). Wisely, they dip the tempo and leave a little breathing space in the mix on downtempo nu-disco throb-job "Araf", before brilliantly mangling Balearica, dub disco and cosmic disco on the simultaneously fuzzy and glistening closer "Punk Episode". The latter reminded us of Mushrooms Project, which is no bad thing.
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TICITACI 043
24 Nov 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
24 Nov 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: DIONIGI, Markus Schneider / Robot Scientists, Future Bones, Jon Fugler, Somerville & Wilson
Review: Richard Somerville and Craig Wilson are regular collaborators, and have previously released well-regarded EPs on Funk Me Recordings and, more notably, Danny Was A Drag Queen. This outing on Tici Taci marks their first collaborative outing in nearly three years. They begin with the nine-minute shuffle of "Red Wasps", where undulating, surprisingly druggy synth lines mingle with New Order guitars and cosmic chord sweeps, over a chugging, mid-tempo rhythm. The vintage '90s indie-dance influences become even more apparent on the accompanying "Red Wasps" remix, which features vocals from Future Bones man Romin. Bonus cut "Slippery As Sin" sees the duo sprint towards darker territory, casually welding together new wave, EBM, acid house and Italo-disco influences.
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TICITACI 032
27 May 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
27 May 16
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Remixers Rich Lane and Duncan Grey had a tough job on their hands here, because SNEM K's Original version of 'Good Girls & Bad Boys' is pretty hard to improve on, rocking as it does as full-phat, low-slung and sleazy a bass riff as you'll hear all month. It's a pretty sedate affair, and hence one more for warm-up or afternoon than peaktime play, but the combination of that bassline with chorused female vocal oohs, a camp male vocal line and shimmering synths is near impossible to resist. Still, the guys do their best, Lane taking us into even sparser, grindier territory and adding some fine fretwork while Gray tuffens up the beats and ups the pace slightly.
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TICITACI 048
09 Nov 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
09 Nov 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: For the label's latest release, the Tiki Taki crew welcomes Shunt Voltage, a debutant artist that clearly loves the more druggy, pitched-down and psychedelic end of the nu-disco spectrum. "Scapeism" is a slo-mo head-nodder that combines weighty, dub disco style bass and colourful, nu-disco style synthesizer motifs with restless (and near mind-altering) electronics, acid style psychedelic TB-303 lines and a variety of spaced-out spoken and sung vocal samples. The effect is undeniably trippy. Sons of Slough provides the first of two accompanying remixes, reaching for the tape delays and reverb in order to emphasize the original version's occasionally buried dub disco credentials, before Two Mamarrachos up the acid factor on a mix so trippy and intense it could create nightmarish hallucinations in unprepared listeners.
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TICITACI 055
27 Sep 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
27 Sep 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Downtempo
Review: Mark Ratcliff and his Sarf London-based Rude Audio crew join forces with Liverpudlian Dan Wainwright, of Oddball Records fame, to present this two-track EP on Tici Taci, who specialise in "electric funk rekkids at tempos below 120bpm". 'Early Morning' itself sounds like nothing so much as veteran crusty faves Radical Dance Faction, only here the sparse, dubby, hypnotic groove is topped with a treated indie-style male vocal rather than Chris Bowsher's anarcho poetry, while the accompanying 'Vermilion Standards' continues the 'ominous dub - danger approaches!' theme and sports Rastaman vocal bites. A late-night delight for all you head-nodders and herbalists.
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TICITACI 066
26 Feb 21
Balearic/Downtempo
26 Feb 21
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: It's over 130 years since Edison invented the phonograph, and with the amount of music recorded and released growing exponentially every year, it gets harder and harder for musicians and producers to come up with anything that's truly original or unique-sounding. MASSIVE props, then, to Leeds lad Bob Salmond, whose debut album as Mr BC sits squarely under the nu-disco umbrella yet somehow still calls to mind, in different places, everything from Killing Joke (check those basslines!) to Italo, via funk, new wave, acid house and Lord knows what else. Staggeringly inventive, 'Invisible College' is a must-check!
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TICITACI 067
26 Mar 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
26 Mar 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: If the more leftfield/indie-leaning end of contemporary disco is where you're at, this long-player from Staffordshire's Jack Butters is well worth checking, evidencing as it does a wide range of influences. There's a blues/country twang to cuts like 'Still Got The Feeling', 'Wild West Show' and 'Stake To The Heart', for instance, while 'Searching For You' rocks an Indian-style chanted vocal and 'Chicken Wah Wah' errs on the cosmic side. But the standouts for yours truly are the dark electronic chug of 'Full Panic Mode', the moody, squelchy 'Drowning In Acid' and the nostalgic, piano-driven and fairly self-explanatory 'House That Jack Built'.
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TICITACI 069
25 Jun 21
Coldwave/Synth
25 Jun 21
Coldwave/Synth
