Roger Shah Magic Island, Vol. 7 (2-CD)

In the big wide world of dance music, there are some happenings that are now as summer as summer itself. What, for example, would this time of the year be without the two discs of judiciously compiled, skilfully mixed music, comprising that annual sonic sojourn to the Magic Island !?

Roger again delivers a sonic arc that takes you from the surrounds of beach, bar and dayclub on - with perfectly pitched development to the night. Magic Island Volume 7 s AM-to-PM disc initially plays it slower, cooler and more inclined. Frontend, it mixes up indolent numbers like Static Bloom s Island Ride , Holding Closer & The Way from Brian Laruso and Balearic Session s Into The Morning Light . Latterly, grooving rhythms and swaying melodies capture the mix, with equatorial numbers like Sunlounger & Kingseyes I Just Wanna Dance and (in its new High Noon At Salinas version) Coconuts & Pineapples .
From Mix 2 s outset, Magic Island s after-dark credentials come fast to the fore. A deuce from Dirkie Coetzee ( Space Odyssey & You ll Find Me There ), David Broader s Celtic Beauty , Into The Stars from Rene Ablaze and the Uplifting Club version of Roger & Moya s Reasons To Live each, by degrees, increase the mix s elevation. Taking it to its highest heights, Roger newies Love Heals You and Never Forget sit alongside rafter-blasters like Bernis Luminas , Together from Sunbrothers and Andy Elliass & ARCZI s Hope For The Future

The seventh trip to the Magic Island Vol.7 is boarding now.