After just a few months ago dropping the stunning album See In The Sun, which is sure to feature in many a Balearic head’s end-of-year list, Phil Mison releases a fresh 45 just as we hit the festive season. Issued under his first and foremost, most familiar alias, Cantoma, the remixes come care of one of his less commonly employed alter egos, Noche Espa​ñ​ola. The single is perhaps a hint, a tease, that prep for the next Cantoma long-player is already underway.

On the A-side you get a mellow mid-tempo mover, where a sorta electro-boogie B-line bumps some cool, clipped rhythm guitar. There’s a little cowbell, a tasteful touch of echo and keys cribbed from classic deep house flutter amidst Fairlight sighs. Piano and synth hooks chasing each other, playing tag, urged on by hand claps and finger snaps. The Ambient mix on the flip, though, is the one for me, where Señor Mison removes the beat and gates all those intertwining tonalities. Shifting focus to a single synthetic string motif. Only the clicking digits keeping time. Flirting with snatches of the original melody before midway through bringing back in the warm, reassuring bass.

Cantoma’s First Nothing is out now on Highwood Recordings.