D.D. Mirage

After knocking it out of the ballpark with their early singles "Night Time" featuring Private Joy, "Feel It/So Hot", and their debut album, "Exotic Illusions", Sydney-based Australian production duo D.D. Mirage step back up. This time around, they're serving up a new 10" single for the Isle of Jura label, "Echoes" with a very special guest vocal from the modern street soul movement's leading man, North Carolina singer Teddy Bryant.

Given their mutual love of the soulful sound system sounds of the 1980s in the UK, for "Echoes", D.D. Mirage and Teddy Bryant opted to take things down a Lovers Rock route. But because it's D.D. Mirage at the controls and Teddy on the microphone, there has to be a twist or two thrown in there. 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙩, 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙥𝙤𝙥, 𝙨𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞-𝙥𝙤𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙖. 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙅𝙪𝙧𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙨, "𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙚, 𝙏𝙤𝙢 𝙏𝙤𝙢 𝘾𝙡𝙪𝙗 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝘽-𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚." They're not wrong.

Over on the flip, they serve up a dub version of "Echoes" subtitled "Introspective Dub". Unsurprisingly, it does exactly what it says on the label. I dunno about the rest of you down in here in the South Pacific, but I'm feeling like we're having a Lovers Rock summer.