Daniel Monaco – Tu Sei Pazza

Fresh from his superb hook-up with Sauvage World on Roam Recordings – the brilliantly titled electro/nu-disco fusion of Paninari on Acid – Daniel Monaco makes his bow on Bordello a Parigi with a deliciously throbbing chunk of quirky Italo-disco revivalism. ‘Tu Sei Piazza’ is propelled forwards by a sequenced, arpeggio-style bassline and vintage drum machine beats, but it’s what sits on top – tipsy trumpets, spy-funk guitar licks and FM synth lead lines – that makes the track such a vibrant bundle of fun. Arguably even better is the flipside Whodammy interpretation, which brilliantly re-imagines the track as a kaleidoscopic slab of mid-tempo, mid-80s boogie revivalism.