Xaver Naudascher

New York's DFA give a leg up to Berlin's Supersoul Recordings label with this doublewide comp of streamlined electronic grooves. Supersoul's Xaver Naudascher and crew stay faithful to the spirit of Italo disco, Chicago house and Detroit techno, forgoing 21st Century sounds in favor of analog synthesizers and drum machines. Acidic bass lines, undulating arpeggios and waves of delay cast hypnotic spells while terse, martial beats demand dance-floor submission. You'd be hard-pressed to put a date to the music, which comes across not as retro but simply classic.

Having built the most reliable brand in freakably fusion-minded dance music with artists like
LCD Soundsystem and the Rapture, DFA Records has decided to globalize. The debut
release on its international Death From Abroad imprint collects tracks from Supersoul, a
two-year-old Berlin label whose bastardized beats flaunt the same formal disregard that
makes DFA so great. Because the material is from a German operation, there are... More >