Review: With a rich musical journey that spans from early electronic experiments with tape decks to their distinctive dub compositions, Tosca's recent album Osam gets re-rubbed & re-dubbed. Enter Mirage the OSAM remixes - named after a quaint café in Vienna that holds a special place in the creative processes of Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber (aka Tosca). Collaborating with familiar remix partners like Brendon Moeller who sends in three distinct versions - next to an Ambient Diary mix by Cay Taylan - a bevy of other remixes take in the reflective sounds of piano crescendos, dubbed-out interludes and ambient explorations. Tosca, too, contribute their own reinterpretation by giving "Shout Sister" its own ambient remake.
Review: Formed in Camden, New Jersey in the mid-70s, Ingram were a funk/soul band consisting of seven siblings, who released four albums over the course of a decade-long career. Here, Unidisc reissue their 1983 boogie gem 'DJ's Delight' - all shiny 80s synths and squelchy analogue synth-bass - then draft in two house heavy-hitters to remix it. Wisely, Mr Toolroom and Mr Full Intention don't mess around with the track too much, simply beefing up the bottom end and placing it atop tuffer 4/4s that'll make it easier for house jocks to programme/mix. You know what they say about "if it ain't broke..."!
Review: The story goes that !K7 regular James Alexander Bright and his manager were blown away by a Flying Mojito Bros set at Glastonbury and, as a result, handed the American duo six of his tracks with a view to infusing them with some of their magic disco dust. Before that, though, the album opens with a brand new track created collaboratively: 'Let's Get Lost', which sounds a bit like Hot Chip wandering around the New Mexican desert fired up on Mezcal and party smarties. Elsewhere, with Bright's indie-soul vocals sitting atop backings that are one part west coast country rock to one part disco, the album's overall effect isn't dissimilar to the Phenomenal Handclap Band, but perhaps a little less 70s-rooted and with more contemporary pop appeal.
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