davide squillace: goiania

Italian DJ and producer Davide Squillace has conjured up some inventive and dancefloor-centric minimal electronic music with this EP for Cadenza. On "Goiania," Squillace opens up a highly musical pot of orchestral stabs and brass hits, morphing bottom-end and freestyle synth licks, cavorting around a steady percussive beat to great effect. On "Blossom," pizzicato synths play a call-and-response with dramatic strings while an electro-tinged drum pattern and sizzling hats lay the foundations of a track with more than a nod to classic house sounds. "Unit 9" closes the release, and Squillace goes on a galactic ride through meteoric bleeps and humongous pads for a cosmic techno number.