Romain FX - Convention Of Love

Something of a trip back in time here, as Polari bring us a four-tracker from Romain FX that mixes influences from cosmic/Italo disco, early Balearica and first-generation house. The lead track is well chosen, with ‘Convention Of Love’ standing out thanks to its sultry, spoken female vocal and air of Middle Eastern exoticism, but elsewhere you’ll find the slab of sheer back-to-88 nostalgia that is ‘Jungle Sex’, plus the sweeping, dramatic and hi-camp ‘Red Dreams’, with its hints of Belgian new beat, and – to close out the EP on a similarly Middle Eastern-inspired note to where it started – the hypnotic, percussion-heavy ‘Cairo Groove’.