Richard Scott
Delirious Cartographies

Experimental doom dub.

Lets go! It´s trance-o-clock somewhere...

Jazzy, laidback house grooves

Don´t leave this!

Welcome Back! Now, that hopefully goes for the public & parties, life & love and most definitely for Klasse Wrecks’s mastermind Luca Lozano and Running Back. Bigger and better, rougher and tougher, „Boss Moves 2“ boldly starts, where the first part left us: somewhere in London’s record store Bermuda triangle between Black Market, Fat Cat and Release The Groove circa 1995. You will hear traces of Italian imports and IDM, European techno, British breakbeat and bass music culture, the DNA of what would turn into tech-house. With Luca Lozano as the conduit, „Boss Moves 2“ seems like a kaleidoscope of influences and a flash of inspirations.Seemingly all of a piece, it never appears like a scheme, but rather as a spirited, soulful and special double pack for dancers, DJs and devotees. Made in Sheffield and done with determination!

Princess Diana of Wales, by London-based Australian Laila Sakini, is A Colourful Storm's latest and most curious project. Someone, no one, a notion, a feeling... Sakini offers clues but no simple answers. Vocal-led pieces 'Still Beach' and 'Fragments of Blue' are brittle and intoxicating, contemplating recklessness and unfulfillment of a past life: "Watching the future wash away / Giving it up to have this day". She studies closeness and, incredulous of the feelings that emerge, wonders if detachment is impermanent. She catalogues these emotions as a series of memories, colours and images. 'Evaporate', sedated and hushed, is a secret confession and ode to resolution, albeit, fatally, only a temporary one: "Take some form / Later on when I can do this / When we can do this / Together".Behind the album is a stage of dubwise disorientations evoking in-between states of the everyday. 'Swing' and 'Closer' are woozy and dreamlike, their voices summoning ghosts of fortunes past while 'Exhaust' finds an aperture in our protagonist's daydream. A perilous foreshadowing of the incantatory 'Choir Chant', whose spell pacifies her inquisition, submerging both self and feeling into the deep blue sea. RIYL: Grouper, Kali Malone, Drew McDowall. Full- colour sleeve with insert.