ZAPATILLA - Escape From The Mausoleum

Paella Hair Sex

£20.70

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: PHS003
Release Date: 28 Aug 2022
Genre: Balearic/Downtempo

Zapatilla, better known as Louis Hackett, is a founding member of Brownswood 's Owiny Sigoma Band and key collaborator on Eska's Mercury nominated debut album, but has a neat side hustle making house music with one foot in the gentle melodies of Balearic beat and another in the irresistible energy of Afrobeat. It's a recipe that he continues over onto this fine four tracker, which opens with the smoothly grooving but lively 'Like Dat' before 'Zimzimmer' builds up around a gently frenetic Afro guitar riff. On the flip, 'Disco Facial' is slower and more retro, with a synth line that could be from a lost John Carpenter soundtrack. 'Self Isolated' completes the package in its most esoteric fashion, another synth work rooted in the past, this time perhaps echoing the approachable experimentalism of Jean Jacques Perry.

Tracklist
Side 1
1. "Like Dat"
2. "Zimzimmer"
Side 2
1. "Disco Facial"
2. "Self Isolated"