Review: Russian disco doyen Anton Bogomolov, better known as ScruScru, comes to Tropical Disco with two new cuts here. We'll start with 'Coastal Path', an appropriately mellow and meandering number with something of a smooth jazz/jazz-fusion feel (check out that George Benson-esque guitar) - perfect for afternoon sets, summer BBQ's, etc. But it's 'Restaurantica' that provides the EP's real "Omigosh omigosh omigosh!" moment: an all-instrumental affair made up of beats, bass, piano and sax, the utterly jazz-tastic 'Restaurantica' rocks, rolls and rollicks along gloriously from start to finish and is quite possibly ScruScru's finest outing to date. Acquire.
Review: London's Tropical Disco bring us a two-tracker from Frank Virgilio, who's been DJing around Naples and beyond since the early 90s but who only made the leap into production in around 2015 or so. 'The Raja' itself sits on the cusp between house, techno and Italo-disco and sports some female laughter by way of a vocal, but presumably takes its name from the Indian-style percussion that serves as an intro and then reappears in the breakdown and run-out. The accompanying 'This Is The Key', meanwhile, is a chunky house jam topped with what appears to be some Liverpudlian studio chatter.
Review: With 20 tracks to choose from, there's certainly no space to do a full track-by-track rundown of this seasonally themed compilation from London's Tropical Disco. Suffice to say that, while the emphasis is largely on up-and-coming names rather than the usual suspects (though the likes of Reece Johnson, JB Boogie, Corrado Alunni and Infrasoul should be familiar), the quality standard is set high throughout, and those who like their contemporary disco served with hints of Latin, Afro, jazz and/or funk flavas will find much to enjoy here. The sprightly pianos of David Zero's 'Vanilla', Alunni's groove-a-licious 'Funk Decision' and Rafael Yapujian's ker-razy 'Beats And Hats' would all be good places to start, but you should probably just dive on in and find your own faves...
Review: Given the seemingly complete lack of information about them online we'll have to assume Fun Kool are newcomers to the scene, but there's nothing amateurish or novice-like about this single-track outing on London-based Tropical Disco. 'Low Toe' leans heavily on the electronic disco of the 80s for inspiration, marrying choppy, glacial synth notes and FX to a phat but understated funk bassline. As the track progresses, some warmer keys come into play along with a hypnotic (but indecipherable) female vocal loop, all of which add up to a slow-builder that'll work well early doors. Let's hope there's more to come.
Review: Fresh from releases on all manner of well-regarded edit imprints - Hot Digits, Super Spicy and Hot Gorilla included - Drippin' In Disco main man Toby O'Connor makes his bow on Tropical Disco. The North Wales-based DJ/producer has delivered an expansive, album-length set of what sound like subtly tooled-up revisions of vintage cuts, sashaying between jazz guitar-laden late-night cosmic soul ('Cosmic Radiation'), bluesy swamp-funk ('Moonshine' and the piano-heavy slow jam 'Saloom Blues'), Clavinet-laden Balearic funk ('Tribal Funk'), bass-heavy disco-jazz ('Slap On The Butter'), jazz-house ('Holding On For You', where he takes to the mic), low-slung hazy house ('Get What You Need'), trumpet-laden disco-funk ('Spaghetti Western'), and much more besides.
Review: With 19 tracks to choose from covering a variety of styles, it's a case of "Where do we start?" with this one. So let's start at the beginning, with the gorgeous Rhodes (?) licks of Rafael Yapudijan's 'Tropical Feelings', which set the tone for a highly enjoyable collection that's dripping in soul, funk, disco and boogie vibes, mixed together in various combinations, with hints of Latin/Afro/tropical vibes thrown in for good measure as well as the odd excursion into more upbeat and house-oriented territory (see Fray Bentos's 'Risky Track'). Worthy of particular note is 'Funky Pieces', in which Eugenio Fico loops up the Average White Band to surefire floor-filling effect.
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