V.A. Solstice II

Multi Culti return with five mind-altering bangers on Solstice II, an appropriately diverse collection of music for the label’s flagship 12” series Axial Tilt, celebrating cosmic collisions, chaos magick, transcendent dance and inner balance. In a watershed moment for the globally-garnered imprint, Sheila CHANDRA’s ‘raqs’ gets a licensed rework by Zillas ON Acid and it’s a bonafide spine-shaking psychedelic chakra-elevator. Keeping up the energy level but speeding up the tempo, Calypso Cult regular, Mexico's Inigo Vontier shreds out powerful didgeridoo-based peak-time ignition on the A2. Frenzy, already. The B-side kicks off with a massive main-room remix of Sababa 5 ‘nasnusa’ courtesy of Israeli trance-master Kino Todo & Danelz, chopping the amazingly catchy and beautiful vocals of Japanese vocalist Yurika into a club-pumping ear-worm.

Andi Otto brings things back down to the lower tempos Multi Culti is associated with, joining forces with Rwandan dancer and singer Evariste Karinganire for a wonky, stompy and most of all unique track. Finally, cult wizard Golden BUG turns in another spooky, subliminal groove, sounding like Toulouse Low Trax having a puff with Aleister Crowley - witchy incantation meets hypnotic beat.