Hell Yeah seem to have had a non-stop year, and it’s not over yet. This 4-track E.P. is modestly described as a “DJ tool”, but the tunes, reworks and remixes, are much more than that. SIRS’ take on Caramel 3000’s Super Rapido could be an edit of some 1980s Danielle Baldelli Cosmic Club classic. Shaking its stuff somewhere between Italo Disco and a progressive rock Sci Fi score. Keys come in kosmische fanfares, and the bass synth is muscular and moody, suggesting a night drive through a neon-lit metropolis. Both are fixed to some mid-tempo party-starting, pumping, while a zither figure brings an additional air of mystery.

Feel Fly snatch a snippet of Mariana Gehring’s Brazilian vocal and tone-down Pedro Bertho’s banging Tornei. Muting the drums, so that they sound like a distant breakbeat, and then building on that with bongos, a buoyant bass arpeggio, and computerised cowbell.

DJ Spun’s make over of My Friend Dario is the real epic on offer, where the four minutes of atmospheric, abstract growling and rumbling suddenly switches into a percussive, marimba’d, punk funk party. The Rong Music founder makes clever use of a conga’d sample, cutting and looping it just before the song starts and the source can be easily ID’d. Kinda like Groundhog Day, I’m about to burst into chorus and then it’s back to the beginning all over again.

The highlight, however, is Calm’s crack at Sergio Messina & The Four Twenties’ Sometimes Remember. This sets out serene, with gentle guitar picking serenaded by sighing synths and a steady slo-mo beat, until a TB-303 begins to bubble. The acid effervescence from Roland’s little silver box eventually exploding euphorically, ecstatically. The cherry on top is a harmonica howl that’s clearly a respectful nod to Ennio Morricone’s Once Upon A Time In The West soundtrack.

File Under Balearic Gabba is out now, on Hell Yeah.