Is It Balearic? mainstay and family member, Max Essa returns to the label with the appropriately titled When I’m Homeward Bound. The original mix is textbook Essa, with gentle guitar picking surfing a sighing tide of soft synth swells. Keys come in whirling Wurlitzer-like solos, riding a bouncy, sunny swing. The upbeat mood and melody are a knowing nod to a much-loved Tears For Fears hit. Cal Gibson’s Secret Soul Society then do their trademark filtered / looped / phased boogie thing. Eclectically mixing up dance music touchstones such as squelchy `80s electro bass, trippy bleeps, dubwise spirals and subliminal sweeping Philadelphia International strings. Berlin-based, Italian producer Nathan Dawidowicz however delivers an even more radical remix. Part digidub, part `50s rock n roll strut. Percussion rattling, heavy with reverb, and running badman Bo Diddley’s R&B voodoo down. Updating his jive by stretching strings backwards, adding stuttered croaking vocals and buzzing sitar strains. With plenty of echo and strange sound effects, the track’s transformed into a finger-clicking cinematic theme to some futuristic gang rumble. Switchblade drawn. Biker jacket collar turned up.*

Chasing Horses completes the E.P. Starting out with tremolo’d twanging, like G.S. Schray at an open air Mediterranean disco, keys lead it briefly into jazz fusion territory. However, focus shifts from instrument to instrument – Melodica? Accordion? Was that a reed? – as it gallops along. Borrowing from Cantoma, Penguin Cafe Orchestra and indie Rickenbacker jangle. An ambitious track and one that’s hard to pin down, it’s one of those tunes that, if produced in the `80s, would have been a Balearic smash by accident rather than by design.

The best place to listen and order is probably Juno.

*Thoroughly recommended to fans of J-Walk’s Broken Beauty.