Waterslide (Gallegos' Blue Playstation mix) (5:36)
Kindness (6:42)
Review: Vyvyan is the solo project of Bonar Bradberry, a perennial underground perfumer with roots in disco and house and plenty of great releases to his name as half of the acclaimed Leeds duo PBR Streetgang. Here, he delivers music for dancefloors when the night turns uncanny by stripping club sounds to their raw essence. Following his 2022 debut album Y, which fused rough percussion with warped melodies, the 'Waterslide EP' pushes on further. The standout title track is minimal and wonky house with synergic synths that burrow deep into your brain and it receives a powerful remix from Gallegos, while 'Kindness' is an amped up rhythm with plump kicks and trippy lines spraying throughout the mix.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll" (A-Trak remix radio edit)
Klaxons - "Two Receivers"
The Rapture - "Sister Saviour" (DFA vocal remix)
Goose - "Black Gloves"
Simian Mobile Disco - "Hustler"
Test Icicles - "What's Your Damage" (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke remix)
CSS - "Let's Make Love & Listen To Death From Above"
We Have Band - "Hear It In The Cans"
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Knickerbocker"
Friendly Fires - "Jump In The Pool"
Playgroup - "Make It Happen" (Full Length version)
Tiga - "You Gonna Want Me"
Tom Vek - "I Ain't Saying My Goodbyes"
Shit Disco - "OK"
Zongamin - "Bongo Song"
Black Strobe - "Italian Fireflies"
Fischerspooner - "Emerge"
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Satan Said Dance"
Phoenix - "1901"
The Killers - "Mr Brightside" (Jacques Lu Cont Thin White Duke radio remix)
Cut Copy - "Going Nowhere"
!!! - "Me & Guiliani Down By The School Yard - A True Story"
Review: Given that much time has passed since the original nu-rave and, ahem, 'indie sleaze' days of the noughties, it was perhaps inevitable that we'd get a celebratory compilation sooner, rather than later. Two Piers has done a pretty good job of marking those movements - or the 'nu-rave' end of it at least - on Strobes In Space. There are plenty of bona-fide crossover anthems of the period present - Justice v Simian's 'We Are Your Friends', New Yong Pony Club's punk-funk inspired 'Ice Cream', the Jacques Lu Cont revision of The Killers 'Mr Brightside' and LCD Soundsystem's 'Tribulations' included - alongside genuine underground club classics and tracks that undoubtedly deserve another airing (see Simian Mobile Disco's 'Hustler', Tiga's 'You're Gonna Want It', Playgroup's genuinely brilliant 'Make It Happen' and Soulwax's 'NY Excuse').
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