Night and Day

Although Oriol is content to slip in slap bass to underpin his own brand of disco-funk, the perpetual use of G-funk electro synth lines to provide melody offsets any danger of the listener mistaking this for a truly organic dance album. Rigidly quantized kick drums and snares syncopated with their hi-hat partners provide a solid backing, but there is never any danger of Oriol's funk being set loose.

Nostalgia’s never had any shortage of critical currency, especially in the world of pop music. I mean, you’ve only got a take a cursory glance at the acts that regularly blaze to the top of the charts to see the past in full force. It’s a process of renewal, as each successive generation of musicians manages to handily forget (or perhaps repress) the memory of quite how uncool their influences used to be. And so the cycle of kitsch continues. That said, there are always certain genres that stand out as more likely to experience a revival, and until late last year slightly tacky Seventies jazz fusion wasn’t exactly high on the list. Then Floating Points’ glittering ‘Vacuum Boogie’ turned up, packing a headful of cheap psychedelics and more than a little Weather Report in its genome. And it was (and still is) glorious stuff, the sort of slo-mo house music you never quite thought existed, except perhaps in the recesses of your own frazzled 4am cranium.