Review: Discotheque Credits has reached "Level Twelve" of their ongoing re-edit game. This time round, it's label newcomer Machine Disco giddily skipping through the synth-laden, 16-bit landscape on route to a showdown with the notoriously tricky end of level boss. There's two quests to keep us occupied on the way: the chunky, toughened-up, delay-laden electrofunk bliss of "Feel How You Love", where chiming synthesizer lead lines, Chic style guitars, echoing drum hits, glassy-eyed female vocal snippets, bold piano riffs and a weighty, almost acid style bassline act as enemies to vanquish on the way, and the thrusting, arpeggio-driven, Mario style romp that is "Music Makin". The latter excursion of a kaleidoscopic throb-job based on the instrumental sections of one of Morgan Geist and Darshan jesrani's favourite Gary's Gang cuts.
Review: Of late the Vehicle label has almost totally focused on output from Russian producer Valique. Here though, the spotlight switches to P Sol who seizes the disco baton with both hands. "Groove On" kicks things with a filtered funky riff and hands-in-the-air soul samples, "Love How You Feel" is deep, raw body music, "Love Me Right" is a tight electronic grind, and "Reboter" wraps things up the boogie with some clap-a-long silliness.
Review: Four more vintage gems get a 21st Century makeover on this joint EP from North Laine and the ever-prolific Chewy Rubs. First up is a faithful refresh of Sharon Redd's Prelude classic 'Love How You Feel', which lets Redd's spirited vocal do the heavy lifting. Then there's 'DehctiwS', a beefed-up take on an unknown disco/boogie nugget, followed by 'Let's Take A Ride', wherein Fat Larry's Band's 'Center City' gets a glitzy, shmaltzy reboot. But the MVP award goes to 'Sombrero', which is as infectious and irresistible a slice of stomping, piano- and flute-sprinkled Latin disco as you're likely to come across this year.
Review: As they say, Styles Upon Styles are "brewin' dreams (and nightmares) since 2012", and we couldn't agree with them more. Thanks to releases by producers like Archie Pelago, Gut Nose, Bredon Moeller, and the present Space People, these dudes have managed to put together a wildly diverse and invariably seductive selection of electronic sounds. That's why Space People is exactly the right sort of artist for them, a man who likes to experiment with all sorts of musical flavours and, from house to hip-hop and electronica, an artist who has yet to disappoint us. Thankfully, Wet is perhaps his best and most accomplished work yet because, aside from the wonderful title track, tunes like "DX7 Of Love" are the perfect combination of r&b sultriness, and house magic - even ol' Snoop features in a cameo! But don't expect this to be a single-minded journey; oh no, there's also plenty of juke experimentation...see the excellent "Love" for the details.
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