Dj City – Paris, Rome

While he’s released music under many aliases over the last decade – Arctic Attack, Fidelio Cubico and Haga Central included – Johan Norling has delivered his best work as DJ City. He’s been backed to the hilt by Public Possession, who here serve up his long-promised debut album. Beginning with the dreamy, opiate deep house headiness of ‘Cities In Dust’, Paris Rome sees the Berlin-based artist wrap bright, colourful and loved-up musical motifs around vintage-sounding drum machine beats and on-point basslines. There are a few rougher and more raw-sounding excursions – see the acid-fired, cowbell-driven jack-track ‘Oh Ah’ for starters – as well as subtle nods to the dreamier end of the Italo-disco spectrum, but for the most part it delivers an immersive and vivid take on nu-dusco-tinged deep house that sounds as good at home as it does in the club.