This is the second EP in Hell Yeah’s planned series of DJ tools. The first contained an essential remix of Sergio Messina & The Four Twenties’ Sometimes Remember.  Here the long-running Italian label, ne institution (shit, they even have their own genre) continue to keep things largely within the extended family, with stalwart signings remixing each other.  SIRS turns My Friend Dario’s Tellaro into a tongue-in-cheek slice of sleaze, a bumping electro-boogie `80s flashback. The cut kinda cool, confident, and most likely high, riding arpeggios and Axel F synths, while accompanied by erotic go-go dancer sighs. Pedro Bertho reworks Verdo’s Boulevardier as a mix of 2 halves. Beginning with a rattling breakbeat, icy keys and Fairlight-fractured voices, midway through the machines start gurgling, emitting what sounds like strange vocal scatting, signalling a switch to drum rolls and rave piano. 

The outlier is Wallace’s re-imagining of Sewell & The Gong’s Better Words. Licensed from Mancunian imprint Before I Die, this presents a potential oasis of clubby calm on a packed post-midnight dance floor. With gentle wildlife warbling and distant tribal hand drums it summons the scene of a nocturnal, tropical jungle. Hot, humid, harnessed to a muted 4 / 4, sonically it’s subtly continually climbing and subliminally, surreptitiously spirit-lifting. Previously limited to digital, this is your only opportunity to bag this beauty on vinyl. 

File Under Balearic Gabba Volume 2 can be ordered directly from Hell Yeah Recordings.