BEPPE LODA Schallplatten & CDs

Review: After a decade since the success of Obscure Cuts: Italian Arabic Disco, legendary DJ Beppe Loda returns with a new EP. This time he has assembled a collection featuring carefully selected Middle-Eastern-influenced Italian disco gems from the genre's golden era. This superb selection offers a fresh take on obscure tracks that highlight Loda's signature style. So, step onto a magical carpet and soar through this release here you will be lost amongst or gazing into wild rhythms and rich cultural influences. Fans of Loda's distinctive blend of disco and Middle Eastern sounds will be delighted by this exciting return to form, as well as what it does to your record crate credentials.

Review: Equating the art of Italo and Afro-funk editing to the cooking of good spaghetti, Beppe Loda sees to the fourth volume of Neptune's Dispatch edits series, Italian Spaghetti. Going so far as to name and shame Loda's chief edits-cheffing competitors - a low but perhaps necessary blow to strike in today's cutthroat food / music market - we won't repeat said names here. But we will remark on just how thoroughly yet not overeagerly these cosmic grooves have been cooked and salted, with delicious al dente funk farfalle making up the As 1-3, and a sparsely clad, full-on sex-funk climax unfolding over the two Bs. A well-boiled fivesome: In Beppe ci fidiamo!