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.
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: 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.
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