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Eternal Love

Various

Pineapples feat Douglas Roop

Paul Robinson

soul

Cristiano Rinaldi has been making music as Memoryman for well over a decade, offering a contemporary take on the classic Italian house sound that's as timeless and positive sounding as it is unashamedly nostalgic. His latest EP contains a quartet of cuts inspired by Italian house of the 1990s, which of course offered a colourful and sun-kissed interpretation of sounds more associated with New Jersey and New York. There's some great material on show, not least the chunky synth bass-propelled, quietly soulful dreaminess of opener 'No Plans', the rushing and saucer-eyed giddiness of 'Eggs Garage' and the proto-house and electrofunk sampling bump of Brine hook-up 'Fuck'n Stand'. Best of all though is 'Come Together, where echoing acid lines and sparkling piano riffs ride a classic-sounding Chicago house groove.

Simoncino

Various

Best Records get right to the heart of true Italo disco with this body-poppin' killer from 1983. REM were made up of Paolo Alfani and Nicola Serena, both based in Florence and well ahead of the curve with their experimental electronic disco sound. Making fantastic use of the Mattel Speak & Spell for their vocal hooks, this enterprising duo cooked up a veritable club bomb with their fusion of sleek drum machine rhythms, throbbing acid basslines and romantic synth tones that would come to be widely used in Detroit techno some years later. There's a full original take of the track on the A side, while the flip features a tweaked "remix" version to give you even more of that robo-vocoder action.

Alexander Robotnick

The Owl