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Bonnie Spacey sashays back into the Exploited Club catalogue with another dose of decadence. Relax, Relax! has a lot to offer; a multifaceted pack of rich, evocative dance floor music. The title track kicks things off. A feisty Italo line runs up the spine of the track giving it a confident presence from the get-go. Stabs flesh out the groove as tension builds toward a swerve into a tumbling House piano line. The drums stay sharp and punchy while hot blobs of acid throw another sonic curveball into a well measured and eminently playable hybrid. Prophesis burns with a more ominous aura as an agile, glowering bass line links arms with muscular stabs. Pensive synth tones build towards a twisted breakdown that adds to a brooding sense of pressure and lands the track neatly in the bag of DJs looking to weave a narrative through their sets. Solar Echoes adds a final shade to the EP as it casts a sunny, amorous glow across the floor. An upright House groove unfolds with more stout, propulsive drums - this time decorated with charging stabs and gorgeous major-key chord shifts. A spacious breakdown brings things right back to scratch before it snowballs into out and out rapture and ties a technicolour bow on a brilliantly varied release.
Hamburg based Bizzarro Universe are a duo who have conjured the cosmos into releases on Bordello a Parigi, Discotexas, Nein Records and Mélopée Records. Planetary Groove was their debut EP for Exploited Club; a nod to the 90s that is now taken in 2 fresh directions by Herr Krank and auspicious producer AUTOFLOWER. First up is Helios label head Herr Krank who braids Trance, Acid and Italo into a dizzying revision that does a fine job of channeling 90s euphoria whilst delivering something very fresh indeed. Shuttering synths and a vibrant acid line tag in and out while a serrated bass line gives the low end a stylish bite. Drums are quick and boisterous and the energy effervescent as the track powers on like a current of energy: fast paced and coursing forth with irresistible kinetic momentum. Nijmegen based AUTOFLOWER then steps in, keeping hold of the euphoric torch across a powerful take that marches with a purposeful intensity. Drums are potent and crunchy, churning away under an electrifying synth lead that gradually opens up before a double drop that will send the floor into giddy rapture, capping off 2 different but equally effective remixes.