Review: It's always a pleasure to see a new excursion from Timewarp Music, a longstanding signature of dubwise legacy, with this latest album offering from Vito Lalinga being another jewel in their many-studded crown. From start to finish, the album offers a beautiful combination of reggae, funk and soul elements, focussing on blissful percussion, groovy bass melodies and awesome vocal ad libs to give us a non-stop dreamy landscape. This is without a doubt a project that needs to be taken in across a long play setting, but picking out highlights would mean having to lift up the catchy horn riffs of 'Watch', a super-groovy percussive inflections of 'Iris' and of course 'Vrye Denke', a gorgeous title track dipped in smooth jazzy fusion. Awesome work!
Review: Ever-prolific Italian Laligna serves up six cuts here that are heavily sample-based but probably still more fairly described as new productions rather than re-edits, especially as he's eschewed any obvious sample choices. The EP opens with the jazzy Blaxploitation flavas of 'On My Soul' and closes with the moody 'Family Funk', which has a smoky, late-night air, while in-between you'll find four more tracks that capture that 70s funk/soul vibe perfectly, from the rock geetar squall on 'Buddy Show' to the barrio funk feel of 'Take To The Top' and the honky-tonk boogie of 'Feel The Blues'.
Review: Prolific Italian producer Vito Lalinga brings us a musical tribute to The Big Apple here. In its Original form, 'New York City' opens with a fluttering acoustic guitar riff and a spoken, heavily accented female vocal, before introducing a second, sung vocal that's then cut up over a backing which blends disco, jazz-funk and garage influences into an irresistibly shimmering dancefloor concoction. The Dancefloor Remix ups the tempo slightly and adds house-y pianos and sax parps; the Squerzanti Silvan beefs things up another notch or two, while the EP's completed by the western-infused 'Beat' with its harmonica wails and Spanish-language vox.
Review: Synth-wielding nu-disco maestro Vito Lalinga fires up his VI Mode Inc Project for another expansive outing on Sound Exhibitions. It's a wonderfully summery and sun-kissed affair, with the experienced producer first offering up a chunk of bass-heavy Latin disco (the glistening guitar solos, beefy bass guitar and jaunty pianos of "Santiago De Cuba") before doffing his cap to Cuban salsa and mabo heroes on the flute-laden "Cubano". He continues on this rum-fuelled tip on sax-sporting roller "Cuban Tape", while "Louisiana Paradise City" is a bluesy and jazzy chunk of thickset late night drama. Finally, "Fiesta Latina" delivers on the promise of its title in weighty fashion.
Review: There's a steady flow of quality grooves coming out of the Sound Exhibitions stable right now, with this three-tracker from Italy's Vito Lalinga being but one case in point. High-calibre contemporary funk is the general order of the day, with 'Your Love' being a rumbustious affair laden with brass, soaring sax and diva-esque "something about your love" vox, while 'Route 66' is a slower-moving jam with super-sleazy guitars, wailing harmonica and (by way of contrast) positively bright and summery keys. Completing the EP is 'No Baby', a classy slice of disco-funk with a gorgeous, reverb-heavy female vocal.
Review: Lego Edit and Vito Lalinga have been in and around our charts before but this time they appear together under the VI Mode Inc Project, coming through with the funk-tastic Pair Or Jacks EP - and they are quite literally that! "Put Your Money" is pure funk heaven, led by a quirky organ on the highs, while "Booker" is deeper, dubbier and carrying a bass weight that is bound to push you straight onto the dance floor - no questions asked! The last little gem, "Afro Funky Now", is led by a wickedly sexy sax and pushed into overdrive by a sweet set of breaks...not forgetting the pair's love for bass, of course!
Review: Prolific Italian producer returns to Sound Exhibitions with four more dancefloor despatches - this time, as the title suggests, with strong jazzual overtones. Opener 'What's Up' is a looping, lolloping groove made up of funk guitars, trumpets, male and female rap vocals and two competing nagging keyboard riffs, while 'Black Sunshine' gets properly wigged-out in late 70s jazz-funk style. 'I Want You' operates in similar territory but is just a little more laidback, while completing the EP is 'Alone Again', a downtempo jam with a melancholy, cinematic feel. All good, but for 'does what it says on the tin' satisfaction the middle two tracks stand out.
Review: A cool cat within the ranks of Sound Exhibitions, and known cohort with other labels like Kraak, Timewarp and Legofunk - Vito Lalinga returns as Vi Mode Inc Project! Music for some sweltering nights of funk to come, Lalinga throws down something hot and heavy, chunky and groovy in "No Money", followed by a stripped back yet beefy and effervescent jazz cafe number, "This World". With some howling midnight lounge funk in "Passion Train", Lalinga loops his guitar riffs with extra summertime guitars and a steady groove holding it down in "Party Love." With a golden sound of '90s jazz motifs, as if lifted from Miami beach marinas or the inner city's hidden swing clubs, horns blaze with fanfare in "Passion Train" next to the big band jams, broken beats and extravagant solo instrumentals of "Freestyle".
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