SANO レコード& CD

Review: There's something distinctly old-fashioned about this debut album for Colombian techno/tech-house upstart "Sano". Take "Paranoia", for example; with its alien bleeps, cosmic rhythms and distinct urban atmopsherics, it sounds like an unlikely early '90s face-off between Richard H Kirk, LFO and Renegade Soundwave. There are plenty more vintage references throughout - see the murky acid of "Me Without You", and the sci-fi synths and sparse drum machine rhythms of "Contoneate" - alongside a range of weird, wonderful and entertaining tracks that veer from tropical hypnotism ("Anestesia") to wobbkly analogue funk ("Transilvania No Mercy"). As a result, Sano is a hugely entertaining debut.

Review: Hailing from Colombia's second-largest city, Medellin, Sano joins Comeme mainstays Rebolledo and Daniel Maloso in gracing the label with a full length. The ten track album will be Hoyos' second release for the irrepressible Comeme, having first showcased his approach with last year's Chupa EP, a five track EP mixed down by Scott 'Deadbeat' Monteith. Lo-fi acid house opens the LP in "I Don't", with the album moving through a spooky and vamped array of techno in "Paranoia", to more traditional Chicago house in "Me Without You" (that features a similar pop aesthetic to Chilean band Panico). Things slow down just after the album's halfway point with the plucked twang of "Anestesia" and syncopated drawl of "Boqueron", before going out with a bang to the hooting "Necrophilic Love".