The Comfort Vinyl & CDs

Review: Italian producer Cesare Muraca, based in Calabria, makes his debut on London label The Comfort with a four-track suite that slips between electro, house and cinematic groove. 'Calabrian Flow' opens with eerie restraint, all melodic shimmer and off-world tension, while 'Cosmic Odyssey' pushes deeper into the void, its synth stabs and haunted chordwork riding a shadowy rhythm. The flip offers release: 'Dynamic Dance' shuffles into kinetic high gear with bright pads and rolling percussion, before 'Working' steers into something murkierichoir samples warped into strange forms, distortion used like pressure. Muraca's sense of form is precise yet openieach track revealing more with every pass.

Review: London label The Comfort offer auditory luxuries by way of glitzy electronic dance music of all stripes, and this time they share their next release from one of Italy's current hottest dance artists, the ever-evolving Paolo Alberto Lodde. 'Superclarke', Discolion', 'Bad Spencer' and 'Souveni r D'Enfance' were produced long before Lodde begun his career as Dusty Kid; a tour de force of Italo meets electroclash, it is remarkable that the mid-wax cuts especially should have been made in as early as 2002; some of the synthwork and command of space make the record sounds like it could have been beamed in from at least the post-2020s electro house era: just listen to the rising actions of 'Discolion' and you'll know what we're talking about.