Alex Neri
It's All About Love

Neatly summarising Alex Neri's career in a sentence is almost impossible but suffice to say that he's released a ridiculous amount of music, using a multitide of aliases, since the early 1990s. Here the veteran Italian returns to Slow Life for the first time in three years with a belated sequel to the much admired 'Peaceful Warriors' EP. Blurring the boundaries between deep house and tech-house throughout, Neri variously offers up hypnotic, organ-rich warmth (the subtly Italo-house influenced chunkiness of 'Gordo'), TB-303-laden, Korg M-1-sporting peak-time release (the squelchy, energy-packed 'It's All About Love'), picturesque house psychedelia ('Lit', where echoing bird noises, tactile melodies and squiggly acid lines ride a bouncy beat), and rushing Italian dream-house revivalism (the excellent 'Paradise Mix' of 'Lit').