Staff Picks
"Tried By Tu" will be familiar to many thanks to its heavy dub rotation and those lonely eastern strings that don't as much as pluck at your heart but pull your entire vascular system out.
Emotional Rescue and Utopia Originals join forces to release the pop, new wave, funk of Obscure Desire, a one-off project and EP from effervescent 80s Auckland, New Zealand that saw three friends come together to make a perfect piece of club pop history.
They begin with the early Chicago house-goes-tech-house flex of bass-heavy jack-track "Joint Me Bro", before breaking up the beats and reaching for the acid bass on tech-bleep shuffler "Losing Control".
'The Eye' opens things up with punchy drum programming and the sort of sci-fi effects and synths that immediately take you to a future intergalactic world.
The 'Body Singer' EP channels Alex's teenage dream of being in a band, taking inspiration from his love of 80’s movies, complete with Analog New Wave / Psyche / Kraut Rock influences.
According to "The Wire", the British bible of musical excellence, Cluster 71 is one of the "One Hundred Records That Set The World On Fire".
