Fitalic - Shanghai Road

This album was my first experience with Fitalic.

The album is fairly bog-standard big room progressive house, but each track is interesting enough to make this release stand up as a whole. The formula is pretty simple: open with a kick drum, add a chunky bassline and a bit of melody, then introduce a second melody at the half-way mark to finish the track. Simplistic? Yes. Formulaic? Perhaps. Effective and enjoyable? Definitely.

This is sheer physical music: dance floor fodder. While it's not the most intellectual or innovative of releases, it still displays a certain amount of talent that deserves respect and some of your time. I've been enjoying this one non-stop for the past fortnight during my daily commute, and I'm quite keen to work some of these tracks into a few DJ mixes too.

If you like Nikola Gala's earlier work, Kasey Taylor, Parham & Plaza, Tomic or Moshic, this may be the release for you.