- He's been a fixture on many a discerning imprint for a while now, but he's hardly prolific, for which we should all be sorry. Here Filippo Moscatello turns up under his Naughty alias to deliver two slabs of understated atmospheric funk that have more than a whiff of the fragile, ephemeral sounds currently being milked by Martin Buttrich and Loco Dice. The two tracks are not that different from each other, but at the same time subtly display an originality that, in my opinion anyway, makes them easily recognisable.
By that I mean that the majority of listeners would, I think, guess correctly what each track's specific gender is. ‘The World of a Man’ is the darker of the pair, relying on a flange-like effect interspersed with cyclical pulsating stabs that veer towards the darkness. This works on more than one level, and the eventual result is a piece of slow-burning dubbed-out disco that is brought back from spiralling out of control by a simple and childish irregular off-key breakdown. ‘The World of a Woman’ in contrast has a much sunnier disposition. It starts off with a dense kick and allows itself to build in a similar way to its flipside, but the mood is much more optimistic. This is one to be shaking your capirinhas to.
The strength of both tracks is their restraint. If he'd added whistles to ‘The World of a Woman’ it would have come off as tacky, and raising the volume of the throbbing synth in ‘The World of a Man’ would have been a touch too much. The force is strong in this one.
TracklistA The World Of A Woman
B The World Of A Man