We would like to start today’s premiere congratulating our friends of the solid Mexican label Bonkers for their anniversary. Great job, lads! As usual, the occasion will be celebrated with some mezcal shots and a compilation: “Year IV” brings together a rich tapestry of sonorities provided with love by acclaimed and rising names of the so-called Indie Dance/Dark Disco scene: Sobek, Colossio (SXDNS025) Feat. Animales Nocturnos, Ludviq & Radial Gaze, Moisees & ZEA, ID_UA (SXDNS229), and Oblako Maranta spared no efforts to deliver powerful and well-constructed cuts, successfully raising the bar of the jubilant release.
Premiered here, ID_UA’s contribution is a must-have! Kyiv-based Igor Dyeyev, even facing the atrocities of a war in his country, allows himself to escape to a safe haven that is his creative mind when producing in order to keep fighting the good fight: Bringing to life his own interpretation of high-quality dance-floor-oriented music. And he fails to disappoint! In “Crucial Moment”, the throbbing bassline, arpeggiated synth layers, ominous lead, and acid gait he came up with set the mood of one of the highlights of the VA.
You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label.