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Album Reviews
Album Review: Various Artists – Relish Compilation II (Relish Recordings)
By Marc Samuels | Published on Tuesday 3 November 2009
Relish have quietly been releasing some of the best nu-disco and electronic pop dance of recent years and this second slice of history tells a story of a strong label with as singular an aesthetic as the likes of better-known contemporaries such as DFA and Output.
Relish founder/compiler Robi Insinna includes three tracks under his Headman alias, and they’re some of the best here, with opener ‘Random Disco’ being a particularly effective example of, well, random disco, the Zongamin remix of ‘Dreampieces’ coming on all minimal post- punk cold-wave (like John Foxx on ketamine), whilst Shazam’s rework of ‘Dirt’ is a shimmering glitterball of sun-kissed Euro-pop that’s pure 1984.
Elsewhere, The Units memorable ‘High Pressure Days’ appears twice, firstly reworked into a new wavey blast of strobe-lit fun by Rory Philips, secondly by Headman who does exactly the same trick, but slightly differently, whilst there’s plenty of cosmic disco to enjoy, the best of which being Prins Thomas’ typically expansive mix of Nemesi’s ‘Jurasico’. MS
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