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Review: The second release in Oslo imprint Snorkel's limited-edition EP series brings together Norwegian producers Olefonken and Raaja Bones for a collection of cuts that was reported recorded in a cabin in the woods (of which there are plenty in Norway). Stylistically, it recalls the krautrock, dub disco and "Scandi-learic" sounds of Lindstrom & Prins Thomas's collaborative work of the late 2000s, giving it a sparkling sheen and 21st century finish. That's arguably best exemplified by the head-nodding shuffle of 'Babor', which is the most dancefloor-friendly of the trio of cuts on show. Elsewhere, 'Uti Fjaera' is sweet, off-kilter and blissful, with child-like melodies rising above a deep, organic house groove, while 'Baby Blue' sounds like a long-lost Todd Terje remix of a Prins Thomas single from 2005.

Review: 'Se Mi Rompi Non Ci Sto' ('If I Broke, I Didn't Know') was the breakout single of Italian circus performer and personality Lara Orfei. Known as a TV actress before branching into music, Lara was in turn a branch on the Orfei family tree, an Italian dynasty of circus showmen and ringmasters. Perhaps due to her commitment to carry the tented family torch, Orfei's time as a musician was hardly successful, and this has in turn resulted in original copies of this record becoming hard to find, and expensive to buy. That all changes with this Thank You reissue, which tracks Orfei's haunting, trapezoid voice against clarion pianos and "oh, oh, oh" emphatics. A brilliant instrumental also bedazzles the B-side.

Review: When love drives us wild - perhaps one too many cocoons in our stomachs have hatched as butterflies, leading to an over-excitation of winged beats - a paradoxical sense of undomesticated entrapment may follow. Whether or not our love is acted upon or returned, the fear is that the feeling will never go away, that we have been irreversibly rewilded, and that the mere mention of the person wall never fail to stir us. Kilque nailed the flooding feeling with 'I Can't Shake This Feeling' in 1982, where the motivic repetition of the chorus line "...must be love" added extra poignancy to the word "burden" to describe a song's hook. Now UK production talents U Key and Omar wax the tune extra weightily, lighting a cogno-scented candle of full-boded electro disco, eliciting strange, fatuous sensations in proximate suitors. The track boasts a full live brass and string sections, uniting Japanese and Bostonian talents; it also features Curtis Williams of Kool & The Gang on alto, while Oberheim and Moog add a modern electronic spice. Young Pulse's remix marks a sensorial broken-beat easer-upper on the B, with its foolhardy breakdowns and Rhodesy downturns.