Bootleg re-edits EP for the Artifact Records project – 12″ magenta transparent vinyl (private pressing)
A1: Manifesto Balearico, A2: Palmy Days, B1: Got Headphones? B2: Ok, Goodnight! (Bottin edits)
REVIEW
Over the years, we’ve become accustomed to hearing Bottin push the boundaries of sleazy, analogue-rich nu-disco and revivalist late-night Italo. On this edit outing he successfully switches focus, delivering four re-rubs of a suitably Balearic persuasion. After opening with the huggable grooves, dreamy chords and hushed spoken word vocals of “Manifesto Balearico”, the Italian producer brilliantly dubs out some slap-bass-propelled post-disco oddity (“2 Palmy Days”), before reworking a suitably cheeky chunk of Italo-disco/sleazy synth-pop eccentricity (the ace “Got Headphones”). To finish things off, he offers up “OK! Goodnight!”, a fine fusion of glassy-eyed female vocal snippets and what sounds like replayed sections from Steve Miller Band’s “Abracadabra”.