Playin' 4 The City - Backfire EPREPRESS ALERT!: French DJ, producer and multi instrumentalist Olivier Portal sadly passed away in January, aged 65. His best work came as Playin 4 The City and this EP is one of his most sought after on the Plastik People label. It features two tracks originally released on the 'Backshop' EP on Tropism Records in 2002 alongside one newer sound. Opener 'Minor Track' is a brilliantly aloof deep house cut with swinging, dubby drums and cute chord stabs

rap and r&b that glides on Cali-synths and neo soul melodies

one of the few vocalists to train in both

On the B side two masterful M&M mixes from the legendary duo of John Morales and Sergio Munzabai in the form of the Breakdown and Chin-Mental versions

Teach Me To Fly

Soichi Terada - Takusambient 4:23

Plastic Cup

The doo-wop shuffle of 'MMMMoon Warp' experiments with Coldcut-lite sampledlica cut ups

my mentor and buddy Rainer Trüby

from electro to new wave

Johnny Clark "None Shall Escape The Judgment" (B2)

as it is about love: finding it

in the innocent days before the pandemic