Ste Spandex

Review: 500, 12" 180g, hand stamped, individually numbered records, single press only.

Review: Having ended 2019 with a fine double-album compilation, Red Laser Records has begun 2020 with the tenth instalment in their multi-artist EP series, which has now been running for the best part of eight years. Label regular Ste Spandex sets the ball rolling via "NuGroove", a wonderfully oddly swung number that wraps alien electronics, rugged acid lines and sustained organ chords around a loose-limbed rhythm track, before Baba & Ganoush excitedly jog their way through ultra-melodious Italo-disco pastures on "Stockholm". Fellow Italo revivalist Franz Scala impresses via the chiming synthesizer melodies, heavily accented vocals and cheeky 1980s Euro-pop vibes of "Ka Zan (extended dance version)", before Ondata doffs a cap to both Bobby Orlando and Patrick Cowley on the throbbing-but-melancholic "Below".

Review: Rothmans is back with there 7th release and this time they pay homage to German playmaker Paul Breitner . The EP comes in the form of rising Manchester producer Ste Spandex , fresh off the back of his remix of Coyote our on Rothmans 6 , and has been recorded 100% live on analogue eqiupment , not a computer in sight !!!! . The EP finds Rothmans taking a slightly different and more up tempo vibe to it but still retains the psychadelic Nu Disco feel of many of there Earlier releases. Spandex has had a little help from his friends in the form of Kickin' Pigeon and Metrodome , both fresh out of the Manchester underground. This is Rothmans first all Manchester release and sees them really cemeting the label in there surroundings.