baze.djunkiii Charts 09/2k23

01. Fila Brazillia - Mermaids [Running Back Double Copy 009]
Gerd Janson's Running Back label has accomplished another great job with unearthing classic tunes for the Running Back Double Copy subseries, actually going back to the year 1991 in which the duo named Fila Brazillia released their very first single courtesy of their very own Pork Recordings label. And still, more than 30 years thereafter, "Mermaids" and the also featured "Mermaids *Demo Version" still hold up as prime examples of beautifully floating UK Intelligent Techno of the time, bringing forth intricately layered synth pads, seductive melodies and heavenly non-vocalisms for early morning sunrise sets dabbling in what could be dubbed as ProtoTrance x Balearic House today. On the flip a previously unreleased version of the 1994 tune "Slacker" which, after an extended intro sequence, sees the duo on a hypnotic and club functional Intelligent Techno tip, providing stripped down, slowly building loop repetition as a foundation for tender meandering cosmic synths and cascading bursts of melodic goodness.

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