P-Sol - Mixed Bag Vol. 1-3 (2015)

Rising nu-disco hero P-Sol is back with a mixed bag - his words, not ours - of his latest reworks. As always with this guy, it's all about hazy funk jams and "Harlem World" kicks things off being exactly that with its rolling bass, gently wafting strings and lazy disco groove but adding a gangsta twist. Elsewhere we get the likes of spaced-out disco raunch on "Needy", retro dubby block party jams ("Perfect Combination") and far-out, wah-wah drenched, '70s funk rock on "Be Alright".

Just weeks have passed since he treated us to volume one, NY P-Sol editor returns with another varied selection of disco funk versions. "On a Trip" adds a little contemporary production magic to the Garden of Eden's long-lost classic. "Good Years" is a full-fuelled funk bluster with an empowering spoken word sample, "Body Language" slaps hard with squidgy synth bass boogie punches, while "This Must Be Home" takes Eno & Byrne on a whimsical funk mission in a Cadillac made of pure post-disco magic.

New York's P-Sol is becoming a trusted source of chunky, floor-friendly reworks. Here he delivers another quartet of gems, on the third volume of his ongoing Mixed Bag series. He kicks things off with "Physical", a tooled-up, floor-friendly re-cut of the Olivia Newton-John pop classic of the same name, before showing Marvin Gaye some love on the sumptuous, filter-heavy loop jam "If You Let Me". Arguably the EP's two strongest moments come last, though; the delay-heavy proto-house dub business of "Tonight", and "Can't Judge", a chunky, bass-heavy re-edit of Cookie's 1982 roller-boogie classic "Can't Judge a Book By Its' Cover". All killer, no filler, as the saying goes.