from the LP Metro Area, Environ Records, 2002The very notion of “post-disco” is far too subtle a concept to ping upon most of our radars, either the ‘post’ portion of the title being immediately annoying to many people or the ‘disco’ portion of the label smacking like juicy Mallorcan lemons to others; fear not, for these vibes do justice to both pre- and suffix, and with no excuse if they’d missed the mark, as Metro Area (veteran producers & DJs Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani) bring us these optimal pulsations a full twenty years after this style of music hit its peak, granting them the priceless scrutiny of hindsight. Their beats are clean, but not sterile, making sure to keep enough dust in the grooves for things to be convincing (it’d be easy to mistake a number of their tracks as genuine relics of the early ‘80s), never coming across as slick---just smoooooove.
