Donald Dust – Nausea

Since making his bow as Donald Dust six years ago, Tom Banks has codified a signature sound rich in jacking, Ron Hardy style drum tracks, surging Italo-disco melodies, late ’80s European house sounds and 21st century nu-Italo tropes. All these ingredients – and more – can be heard on his latest EP for Bordello a Parigi. Opener ‘Nausea’, for example, audibly doffs a cap to Koto and Bobby Orlando, while the more percussive, sweat-soaked ‘Sick Your Own’ remix of the same track provides an energetic, peak-time ready alternative. There are two mixes, too, of ‘Jupiter Jack’: the new beat-meets-Italo-disco throb of the ‘Groovy Mix’ and the breathless mid-80s Chicago house flex of the ‘Jupiter Mix’. Chiming, synth-pop-goes-electro number ‘Noise in the Stairwell’ completes a fine package.