Right on cue to get dance floors boiling this summer, Malandra Jr. punches in on Stil vor Talent with his piping hot debut effort, the ‘Abrakadabra’ EP.
With all-in blazing arpeggios and Dune-esque desert choirs, the title track, ‘Abrakadabra’, cuts a path of straight destruction with its heavy-duty bass onslaughts and Arabic-style synthwaves. All about creating the kind of momentum that unleashes pure energy and magic across the room, Malandra has us pumped up and ready for each bar of this Italo-inspired wild ride.
Winding it back to the 80s classic with a synth-heavy deluge of Moroder-ian disco arpeggios, ‘Ghostbuster‘ is just pure retro-laced juice in a bottle. Cranking the Roland Jupiter X and Korg Triton up to eleven, Malandra treats us to a steroid-fueled workout of jacking rhythms and gym tonic-like pep talk. If you think it’s scorching out there, just give this one a spin and feel your body melting like an ice cube in the red-hot sun.
Malandra Jr.’s attitude-filled punkish take on house and techno has found its way onto important electronic labels as of late, including the Dubai-based Kinetika Music for his remix of Aiwaska and We Came’s ‘Tarantula’, Stil Vor Talent again for a cinematic single, ‘Dangerous Mind’, Solomun’s Diynamic, Watergate Records, Exe Audio, Renaissance Records, and more.
Simonpietro Malandra’s relationship with music started young when he learned piano classically and studied clarinet, winning awards, before studying classical music at Accademia Teatro alla Scala, a renowned art school in Milan. Shortly after his time there, he applied his skills from classical to electronic music, utilizing his deep understanding of melody, harmony and rhythm to create dancefloor tracks with innate musicality.
This two-track EP, ‘Abrakadabra‘, again showcases Malandra’s ability to stir a crowd through colourful ways. One is deep, centering around an Eastern synth melody, while the other is an Italo disco-style track that delivers a devastating drop.
Here to sizzle up your summer even more, this red-hot EP is well worth a listen for fans of grin-inducing dance music.
Listen to the tracks below.
