Attempting to recreate the golden yesterdays of Jose Padilla’s White Isle sunsets with the tunes of today…

Coyote & Quinn Lamont Luke / Think About It / Is It Balearic?

Coyote, Timm & Ampo, team-up with singer-songwriter Quinn Lamont Luke, on Think About It, a soft, seductive twilight groove. The music just little acidic, just a little microdosed, while Quinn supplies echoed sighs and a lyric that’s less of a song, and more of positive mantra, concerned with fate, embracing change and going with the flow. California’s Project Sandro deliver a subtle dub.

D.D. Mirage & Private Joy / Night Time / Isle Of Jura

Sydney, duo D.D. Mirage meet Manchester’s terrifically talented Private Joy on Night Time. PJ sweetly serenading while currently riding high on the back of a righteous solo Rhythm Section International E.P. An extremely smooth, sleek shot of modern street soul, it’s as lush as a Loose Ends production with the bonus of a seductively skanking  bass heavy version excursion.

Harmon Eyes / Junoctal / Proxima

Audrey Danza and Nicolas Oggier’s imprint, Proxima, continue their collaboration with Stockholm-based producer Peter Benisch aka Harmon Eyes, and reissue a third E.P. of material from his back catalogue. Originally released on local label, Loop, in the mid-90s Chasing Golden Planets features three tracks of banging trance, a new remix from Danza, and a downtempo treasure in the shape of a tune called Junoctal. All spinning, spiralling euphoric synths, boasting a bubbling b-line and gently rocked by a slo-mo, sedated TR-808-like rattle and boom, it’s the kind of IDM / ambient techno that could have been collected by Jose Padilla for one of his Cafe del Mar compilations. Its hypnotic refrain repeating and shifting hypnotically through EQ and filters, occasionally revealing subliminal snatches of human harmony.

Heavyhandz / Cages (Rheinzand Remix) / LESDK

L.A.-based artist Heavyhandz has a track out on Downtown New York music / art veteran Dennis Kane’s label, LESDK. The tune Cages comes in a package with dance-floor directed remixes from Richard Sen and Dennis himself, all of which we’ll cover elsewhere, but right now, at sunset, it’s Rheinzand’s radical reimagining that’s of interest. The Music For Dreams-affiliated Belgian duo have created an ambient epic, the sonic equivalent of Joseph Conrad’s journey up river, searching for Kurtz and the heart of darkness. Cinematic electronic stirrings mix with strummed, scraped and bowed orchestral strings, summoning images of Francis Ford Coppola / Apocalypse Now’s Vietnamese jungle at night. Delivering an intoxicating densely textured aural atmosphere that picks up  distant tribal tom toms and panpipe-like keys along the way.

Suzanne Kraft / What You Do To Me / Soft Rock For Hard Times

Universal Cave launch a new label, Soft Rock For Hard Times, with Suzanne Kraft’s cover of Sugarcane’s What You Do To Me. This is cool, and sort of reminds me of Dutchman Spike Wolters, but Secret Circuit’s dub on the flip is phenomenal. The now echo-washed indie rock gains a groovy reggae bass-line and percolating programmed percussion. Smashed cymbals sending out phased sprials around the fuzzboxed guitar solo.

Timeless Echoes / Aquatic / Jansen Jardin

DJ Tera and synth player / composer Yota Miyachi are the Aichi-based Timeless Echoes, the latest signing to Jansen Jardin. Their tune Aquatic sets sail on a broken sorta shuffling house beat. Cool congas and wood block percussion giving the cut a rumba, samba, Latin feel. A laidback poolside / beachside carnival its keys swell like surf and spray on a clear, blue-skied day. Inducing smiles and carefree cries of “Arriba!”