Franz Scala – Cafe Futuro

Since debuting on Bordello a Parigi in 2016, Franz Scala has firmly established himself as one of Europe’s premier synth-disco specialists, offering up EPs (and the odd album) that blur the boundaries between Italo-disco and Hi-NRG revivalism, analogue-rich nu-disco, kaleidoscopic Italo-dance and colourful neo proto-house. All of those sonic strands can be heard across the nine tracks that make up sophomore album Cafe Futuro, which lands on the label he established back ion 2009, Slow Motion Records. The plentiful highlights include the bubbly and spacey, electro-influenced bounce of ‘Crush Test (featuring Charlie)’, the star-fall Italo-disco chug of ‘BIT99’, the intergalactic surge of ‘Light Year Run’, which is the kind of cut Legowelt would be happy delivering, and the dancefloor focused 80s synth-pop surge of ‘Telephone Boy’.