Dobro Vinyl & CDs

Review: Dobro's 11th outing is a wonderfully exotic collection of disco and adjacent grooves to keep some late summer sun burning whenever you hit play. Beard In Dust kicks off with 'Ambivalent Intelligence Dub' which is a nice laid-back and jazzy downtempo delight, Scruscru layers up some flower power melodies of swaying house grooves and Classonix delivers a pair of beauties that up the energy with some tropical disco. Lavrutz then heads to South America for some Latin steaminess on 'Moanin' (Ye Samba),' and collaborates on two further cuts that bring Afro influences.

Review: The glorious Dobro label gets to double figures in fine style here with a new album that finds Iner both going solo and collaborating with Oiuna on four new cuts which then get remixed. The originals are summery, airy, organic worlds of gentle deep house rhythms, feathery synth melodies and gentle hooks that have a subtle future feel. The remixes rework the tunes for more direct vibes in the club with Frank Music label head Johannes Albert going first and then Crowd Control also stepping up. Great artwork, too.