Kicking off 2024 with his first A Tribe Called Kotori EP of the year, label boss Oliver Koletzki returns pedal to the metal. Titled ‚La Hora de Mosquitos‘, this new colossus of a two-tracker treats us to an epic whirlwind of rolling techno and hypnotic house laced with a solid bit of 80s guitar solos. Ready to take any stadium by storm, the title-track hybridizes Koletzki’s signature heavy-duty four-to-the-floor approach with a tang of Santana-esque Latin rock, glamour yet pensive, packing an equal amount of punch and cinematic dreaminess – which would honestly not feel out of place in a Michael Mann feature. Mixing the tried-and-tested Chicago-style shuffle with a cutting-edge sound design and that tang of opaque, nightly ambience a la Miami Vice, Koletzki serves up a wistful pumper of a tune that, all nostalgic it is, doesn’t dwell the past. An understated weapon that starts off as a metronomic puncher but slowly hatches into a big-room-ready electrifier, ‚Satya‘ merges the finest of Italo’s steadfast flowrate with a string-laden buildup that gets all the more muscular as bars unfold, gently blurring the lines between space-discoid funk and a somewhat pop and trance-infused attitude. Meteoric material inbound, brace for impact.