Giorgio Moroder’s revolutionary electronic sex-groove odysseys with Donna Summer planted Munich firmly in the eye of the disco hurricane, creating a sound as influential as Kraftwerk. The repercussions are still felt today, particularly in the transcendental enclaves of cosmic disco, where those luminous sequences and heavenly melodies meet early 80s NYC boogie with Salsoul turbo-thongs . DJ Benjamin Frohlich has spearheaded Munich’s re-emergence on the disco map, organising parties and running the Play-records shop. In 2006 he started the Permanent Vacation label with Tom Dioly, one of the customers, beginning a deluge of top notch cosmic goodness. This compilation ropes together tracks so far only released on 12-inch; a sublime, melon-friendly feast of deep disco grooves, intergalactic washes and gorgeous electronic melodies, often topped with insidious vocals [like the two honchos making their production debut as Permanent Vacation with ‘Tic Toc’, elevated by Kathy Diamond’s sultry tones]. Other names include the lustrous Lullabies In The Dark, Sally Shapiro, Bostro Pesopeo, Woolfy vs Projections and Steve Yanko, whose ‘Prostitute Pink’ cheekily plants Captain Beefheart’s ‘Yellow Brick Road’ intro amidst its euphoric hallucino-disco. With its panoramic realignment of enough intoxicating disco elements to confuse a mirror ball, this new Munich machine have produced a sublime but scorching summer soundtrack.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
