Homies extends its decennial victory lap into 2026 with a three-volume testament to continuity and kinship. The first instalment, a ten-track transmission, gathers foundational voices and kindred spirits who have long animated the label’s particular universe. Among them: Andrea Dama, SIRS, Arnau Obiols, Trujillo, Romain FX, Das Komplex, and the formidable pairing of Leo Mas with Rago & Farina. This is music conceived under the Balearic light – unhurried, warmly communal, resistant to the tyranny of hard borders and harder categories. A celebration, yes, but also a quiet, assured reaffirmation of what Homies has always guarded.
The meeting of Leo Mas and the enduring duo Rago & Farina is a convergence of bloodlines. Mas carries the memory of Ibiza’s nocturnal awakening, its first flush of ecstatic possibility; Francesco Rago and Gianluigi Farina bear the grammar of Italo Disco at its most sophisticated. These currents collide in “Feel To Be Free,” a cut of rigorous, radiant construction where analogue synth layers unspool in luxurious, phosphorescent threads and an insistent acid pulse provides necessary friction. It is a past reaching forward, never merely quoting itself. It is an anthem to freedom. In a world oppressed by wars and opportunism, it expresses the desire to feel free and to be the guardians of our own lives and our own time. The result is memory activated rather than nostalgia weaponised – a brief and brilliant manifesto encoded in bass drum and oscillator, pressed fresh from the hands of those who first dreamed its language.
You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label.