Appennini vinyl

For those without an understanding of contemporary Italian disco producers, the geographical makeup of their country and an appreciation of vaguely prog rocky cover art, Appennini - the title of this latest offering on Slow Motion - is the name of the Italian mountain range that splits the country in two and links Rome and Chieti, the two cities from where Rodion and Fabrizio Mammarella originate. This is where the concepts end as "Eskape From Kyoto" finds the duo in splendid form, ripping through all manner of analogue equipmentation to craft a raw and trippy journey through spiralling arpeggiated modern sci fi disco - you can really picture Weatherall hammering this out to a willing audience in a sweaty basement somewhere. The same could also be said of the markedly slower, stripped back Dub offering of the same track from Slow Motion regular Alien Alien which leads the track into darker, more subversive territory. If you took that chugging arpeggio hook from Cowley's classic Donna Summer remix and proceeded to wrap it in all manner of twisting analogue euphoria it would probably sound like the final track "Majella" which ensures this is a release that any fan of contemporary Italo needs to check.

Marco Gallerani, Roberto Rodriguez (Manolo), Trujillo