Deo’Jorge - Robotic Souls EP

We don’t know much about Deo’Jorge, other than that he’s a New York-based DJ/producer who has run or managed countless events over the years. This outing on Me Me Me appears to be his debut EP and if so it’s a hugely impressive first outing. The three original tracks on show each cannily combine throbbing, Italo-disco style arpeggiated basslines, thumping beats, sparkling synthesizers and the kind of Balearic musical flourishes often associated with Norway’s space disco specialists. It’s certainly fitting then that one of those, Prins Thomas, provides a predictably epic, constantly-rising revision of ‘Sparking Plugs’ that emphasises Deo’Jorge’s subtle musical nods towards krautrock. In contrast, the Hardway Brothers’ revision joins the dots between throbbing cosmic disco and the breezy brilliance of ‘Sueno Latino’.