Nang 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: Slovenian duo, Ichisan & Nakova drop their debut full length on Greg Wilson's Nang imprint. On Yugo Tempo, the duo infuse the sounds of modern electronic disco with the melodies and rhythms they found in the more traditional music genres that surrounded them in their youth. Merging the disciplines of wonky, ethnic and Balearic disco into one record, we hear indigenous melodies, Tarantino-esque guitar lines and aluminium suitcases full of atmosphere. A curious yet wholly entertaining work from the duo, this debut album is well worth checking out whatever your musical preference.

Review: Nang have really nailed it in the past year with some essential releases that vary from John Carpenter tributes to artist retrospectives to straight down discoid delights from the likes of Ichisan and Sare Havlicek. The Hackney imprint step up their game with this compilation of lesser known disco delights judged perfectly to soundtrack the summer months on a beach (or down London Fields) The laidback floatage of Max Essa is interspersed with one of Tensnake's most glorious moments in "Holding Back (My Love)" and the timeless ivory tinkle of Terje's Chaz Jankel edit. Elsewhere the arpeggiated groove of Ilya Santana's Sugar Daddy remix and the glistening chug of Diaphanoids "Weightlessmotionless" demonstrate Nang's penchant for choosing underrated gems. The sun kissed soft rock downbeatisms of "Lie Awake" from A Mountain of One closes this set perfectly.

Review: For the latest volume in their "New Masters" series, Nang Records has handed over the reins to Situation, a Bristol-based combo whose soulful take on disco/house/nu-disco fusion has made them in-demand remixers over the last decade. Here the West Country crew showcases some of their finest reworks, flitting between hip-hop tempo grooves (a tidy remix of A Flock Of Seagulls), classic-sounding U.S garage (a sax-laden tweak of JazzyFunk), heavy Afro-disco (Pasteur Lappe), seductive slow jams (SugarDaddy), warm boogie/jazz-funk fusion (there are a number of examples, but we like the George Kelly tweak most) and sweeping, cinematic Balearic soul (a sublime re-make of Love & Money's "Strange Kind Of Love").

Review: Those unable to reach out to the Croatian coastline for the many festivals propping up on the Petrcane beach this summer can find solace in the shape of this mix CD from the ever dependable Nang imprint. Beach Sessions 2 provides a suitably slinky accompaniment to last summer's debut mix, with Nang's resident Slovenian disco merchant Sare Havlicek running through a fifteen track selection impeccably mixed and recorded live in one take. Mixing up the familiar with the unreleased, Havlicek digs through the recent output of Nang and like minded horizontal disco deviants Bear Funks with many a highlight along the way! Look out for the analogue efunk of Social Disco Club's collab with compatriot Rui Maia and overwhelmingly glistening textures of sound that filter through the excellent "Fluffy Amadeus" from Fillipson & Ulysses.