Josh Ludlow – New Transition EP

Fresh from blurring the boundaries between electronic disco and quirky disco-house via EPs on Nocturne and Public Possession (the latter alongside Wolfram), Josh Ludlow brings his trademark sound to Toy Tonics for the first time. Style wise, both A-side tracks doff a cap to Italo-disco and the hard-to-pigeonhole dancefloor psychedelia of Maurice Fulton’s Syclops project, with throbbing opener ‘New Transition (extended 12″ mix)’ being followed by the heady nu-disco squelch of ‘Bumper Thumper (12″ club dub)’. The latter track is given a makeover by Medlar on the flip, with the Wolf Music regular re-imagining it as a bumping, sweat-soaked house jam topped off with disco guitar licks and ghostly lead lines. Also worth checking is B1 ‘D.G.A.F’, a funky, punky house jam smothered in intergalactic synth sounds.