Giorgio Lopez & Stella

If you see an album cover like this, you kinda know what you’re going to get, no? Eighties vibes, electronics, sunny splashes and computerbass. And that’s exactly what Napolitean producer Giorgio Lopez serves on his upcoming Sud des îles. ‘A musical travelogue, following fictional skipper Georges Taty and his crew of musicians aboard the sailboat “Sud des Îles”, caught between racing waves, late-night jams, and dockside dreams.’

Electronic dreams, that is. References to Italo disco, Jan Hammer, Kassav’ and other 80s zouk music, French boogie house and the like, and the cool voice of label mate Stella. Whose music has that same retro vibe, listen to her 2022 album HERE.