New EP for disco entity Antoni Maiovvi, who may sound well-suited to championing Italo Disco but comes from Bristol and, yes, produces disco, but with a proto-disco/techno/filmic sheen.

He also does what he does very well on this epic 40-minute EP. I say epic because Maiovvi specialises in producing long, fluid electronic dance music passages that glisten with melody, atmosphere and throbbing energy.

This Is The Beast takes the lead, chugging like a train via pleasing arpeggiated rhythms; surrounded by gorgeous swirling synthesiser lines. It reeks of progressive seventies synthrock, post-disco and a dab of Kraftwerk futurism.

The lengthily titled The Sigh From The Sky Was A Lie Without Doubt follows in equally mesmeric fashion; a similar-styled track to the last but this time Maiovvi injects big bold keyboard pads and low-slung New Order bass riffs. Cheese can be found in its rocky midsection, with flailing guitars drying out the lush synthwork, but it soon gets back on track.

Treason gives the EP a well-earned rest midstream via some slow, haunting, piano work, before the enormous 13-minute Class Dagger hoves into view like a tanker ship, eliciting John Carpenter soundtrack atmospheres amidst unrelenting keyboard motions and heaps of churning synths and deep, dark synth bass riffs.

The closing Horshead Blue is slightly more modernised, deliving into ambient techno but with vocals. Again, Maiovvi shows he has a knack for reprising suitably nostalgic dance music from a bygone analogue era, made relevant thanks to his rather humanistic approach of connecting electronic dance music with the emotive senses and melodic desires of the listener.

Mark my words, the more you play it, the more you’ll love it.