Trujillo – Fruit Punch review

For their fourth release Apersonal return to South America for more glistening production bumps from the man known as Trujillo. There’s an inherent warm late night sensation running through “Fruit Punch” which seems perfectly suited to the tropical climes of Caracas, Venezuela that Trujillo calls his home. A slinky transition from live bass and shimmering keys into the tight drums augmented by delay, intermittent cowbell and subaqueous pads lays down the foundation for the arrival of some delightfully MOR guitar work.

Apersonal retain the high calibre of remixers that have distinguished their releases to date with “Fruit Punch” being treated to a tweak from Eddie C that retains the original feel but lays the emphasis on that sultry synth line and swerves the track in the direction of the dancefloor via an intricately layered house groove that occasionally drops into jacking bedlam. Toby Tobias was so enamoured with the track he submitted two mixes, with the second featured on this physical release a faithful take that adds some throb to the bass and covers it all in a gloriously reverberant sheen. To round matters off, Trujillo drops “Am I Looking Up To You” a delightfully dusty sojourn between edit and original production. Quality, as ever, from the Spanish imprint.

Tony Poland