Description
2020, 2×12″ compilation LP, Irma/Calypso Records. Limited to 300 copies on yellow vinyl.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, few Italian producers built up quite as strong a catalogue of dreamy, tactile and sun-kissed deep house, ambient and downtempo tracks as Don Carlos. As this fine compilation proves, the tracks he never bothered releasing at the time were equally as good. Disc one focuses on completely unreleased fare (including a quite different arrangement of his greatest hit, the sax-laden dream house anthem “Alone”), offering up the kind of sparkling, life-affirming goodness that instantly evokes imagined memories of dancing on a beach at dawn. Disc two is more focused on rare and hard-to-find alternative mixes, including fine revisions of classic cuts such as “Re-Mida”, “Aqua” and “Paranoia”. Simply essential! – Juno