- If you were to hear, at a festival, the stompy kicks and snares that herald this latest release from Brazil's foremost exponent of proggy club music, Gui Boratto probably wouldn't be the first name that would come to mind. With its analogue drums and choked synth lick, you might think it was Todd Terje and expect arps and disco chords. And, that's pretty much what you get on "Too Late." Fans of Boratto's previous output on Kompakt—the pupil-dilating rush of Chromophobia or the clanking machines of III—will be surprised at this pair of Balearic tech house anthems.
"We Can Go" is the peak-time bomb, with a Nordic disco strut like Tony Manero crossing a dance floor. Boratto has always deftly navigated peaks and troughs, and he stakes out his hands-in-the-air verses with a full arsenal of narcotic synths, and a snare drum big enough to fill Space's main room. "Too Late" should get more traction on terraces, where its minutely-programmed drum breaks and blubbery basslines counterpoint a peculiar vocal that sounds like tipsy drawl of a DC10 reveller at four-in-the-morning. By itself, that would be awful, but stitched to a Nile Rodgers guitar break it's wonderfully infectious.
トラックリスト A Too Late
B We Can Go