Rodion releases his first single for Nein Records ‘Bococa Hills’, and what an amazing cosmic disco delight it is. It has that special energy that you get when you hear something new, fresh and exciting for the first time. The track sits on a rock steady funky baseline held together with dub house pad sounds complimenting the groove, while the lead synth screams vintage 70s, even treating us to a solo with pitch bend to complete that authentic vide. Rodion influences are classical, techno, balearic club culture and soundtrack composers such as Morricone and Goblin, but here he also swings it with a funky swagger that any Blaxploitation film would be proud of. Rodion’s real name is Ed Cianfanelli and hales from the Eternal City of Rome, where he was once a scholar of piano at a famous Catholic music school, classically trained, uber stylish, amazing producer and DJ with a list of gigs that spanned the world, …that should be enough to hate him if wasn’t for the music being so good. Among his many accolades are Mixmag/UK, who have called him the ‘new genius of Italian Dance music’. Even 73 years young disco legend Giorgio Moroder played a Rodion remix of his E=MC2 hit during his first-ever DJ appearance in New York. The Fabrizio Mammarella mix takes us a more darker clubber mix, while The Emperor Machine sprinkles more cosmic disco dust on his Exotic Dub Mix with trade mark textured, dynamic, multi-layered psychedelic sound, all expanded into an epic 11 minute masterpiece. At this rate Nein records will have to be very careful not to become the label of 2016 if they continue to blaze these amazing tunes…
5 out of 5
Reviewed by Martin Madigan
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