Juan Laya & Jorge Montiel - Electropical Pt 4 [Hi-RES]

Three years on from the first volume in their ongoing Electropical series, long-time collaborators Juan Laya and Jorge Montiel are ready to drop part four. It’s another sunny, summery and musically expansive affair, with the duo wrapping live instrumentation (guitars, flutes, bass, keys etc) around a variety of tropical-inclined grooves. The star attraction is arguably the energetic but mellow and colourful ‘Amazonas Secret Kingdom’, which is later turned into a flute-heavy dancefloor dub (featuring flautist Marcelo Andrade) via the haunting ‘Drum & Flute Mix’. Elsewhere, ‘Abstract Fragments of a Dream’ is a mid-tempo samba-boogie treat featuring vocals from Andre Esput, ‘Kalimba Vibrations (Oyobi Mix)’ is a jaunty chunk of Latin house cheeriness, and ‘Beyond Civilisations (featuring Kris Huston)’ sits somewhere between tropical house, Afro-house and sub-heavy broken beat.