Eternal Love

𝙎𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙞𝙧𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙪𝙥 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙤 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙗𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙙𝙪𝙤 𝙀𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙀𝙨𝙖 & 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙭𝙚𝙨.

In key with their Channels of Love edits series, ‘Ritmomento’ reprises the classic late ‘80s/early ‘90s Italian disco sound in full flight, but also subtly budged with complementary aspects of SA bubblegum/kwaito house, synth-pop and farther flung flavours.

The strapping bass arp and fierce snare of ‘Luna Manga’ will cause pure peacockery in the dance, and it takes off to another level with the Yeke-Yeke-ish vox and topline. The ebullient ‘Echo Danza’ is unmistakably influenced by the SA club sound which, like lots of music from the era, owed a lot to prevailing Italo and synth-pop templates, the latter of which is heard most strongly in a ’Nakarap’ recalling Heaven 17.

’Nakarap’ is duly revised by Esa, accentuating the original’s Afro-Synth pull with bustling drums, coiled basslines and cosmic dubbing, and Masolo gives ‘Luna Manga’ a sort of early ‘90s proggy trance make-over.