RICARDO BAEZ – TUTTO PASSA

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Since first making his mark midway through the last decade via a series of quietly impressive EPs on Toy Tonics, Ricardo Baez has flitted between labels, in the process alternating between throbbing, 21st century electronic disco, deep house, techno and acid. On the Florence-based artist’s latest EP, a Live at Robert Johnson label debut, he delivers four varied but uniformly floor-focused affairs. So ‘Tears of Joy’, a glossy, warm and rolling slab of tactile deep house colour, is followed on side A by the sparse, squelchy, mind-altering and EBM-influenced throb of ‘My Thursday Night’. The Italian successfully puts a twist on his nation’s 1990s house history on the picturesque ‘Arroz Con Leche’, while Johannes Albert’s rework of ‘La Isla Da Margarita’ cannily combines sparkling synth sounds and fizzing TB-303 motifs with weighty dub disco bass and unfussy drum machine beats.