The BBC’s Web site almost crowned this album of the year when it dropped in May at year’s end, I’m leaning that way myself. Constructed only out of fuzzy hums, clinically precise clicks, and analogue moans, his breed of house is ruthlessly efficient yet surprisingly soulful. Koivikko is a Finnish devotee of microhouse, that latest attempt to reunite the brainy, all-left-feet experimental techno camp with those who actually dance to dance music. ( )Īnother otherworldly DJ set that’s just floating out in cyberspace free for the taking. That both sets are available for free downloading is proof that he’s the Fugazi of dance music, tragically underexposed because he refuses to merchandise.
I-F is the fountainhead for all these attempts to bring back Italo-disco and ’80s electro back, although he hates the electroclashers, and most of them haven’t even heard of him. This is the second installment in what gets my vote for the best DJ mix series of all time, a truly sleazy and brilliant splash through dance music’s long-forgotten primordial ooze.
On this one, he drives the crunchy drum machines that made him a DJ booth legend further into the backstage guitars-and-groupies underworld that decadent disco has been threatening to penetrate since its start.
Crusty Chicago house old-schooler Felix da Housecat ended more than a decade of undue obscurity with his retro-chic Kittenz and Thee Glitz album three years ago.
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