THE NEW ALUMINISTS レコード& CD

Review: A blast from the past becomes neoblast, as Bologna's Maze crew grow back their most vital tech trance genes, calling up three new artists whose sensibility remains "new" despite a good bulk of their work stretching back over at least 20 years. The New Alumnists and Ilija Rudman were mostly active from the 2000s on, where the former's early itchy house hits like 'Get On Down' and 'Espanol' took a UK airbrush to French touch (no-one said don't touch), and the latter's deep house movements took on a classiest style with 'Hours/Moving Back'. But these are all unreleased: 'Triplex' is pregnant with organ and stab, with a lead femme vox musing on the fine decor in a technophile's apartment, while Rudman's 'Affair' and 'You And Me' carry the ones and twos through fine vocoder play and new wave drum mashings. Newcomer Max On Wax freshens the proceedings with 'Non-Pragmatic Analysis', his twinkly brand of electro advocating an unmeasured approach to life.