RAMZi

𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙕𝙞 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙮𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙤 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙡𝙮 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙤𝙛 ‘𝙈𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙏𝙖𝙣’ 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙁𝘼𝙏𝙞 𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙡, 𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨-𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝟰𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩, 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 ‘𝟵𝟬𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙪𝙗 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨.

Across a catalogue of playful gems for 12th Isle, Total Stasis, Music From Memory and more often her own label, FATi, Phoebe Guillemot’s RAMZi has become a pied piper for dancers and DJs seeking more playful, offbeat grooves inspired by the openness of golden era of ‘90s electronic music. The 10-part ‘moon tan’ embodies her rose-tinted romantic approach to moving bodies with a wonderfully colourful, outernational purview that results one of her definitive albums, deftly distilling and encompassing all points of a widely adored sound that renews the past with an effervescent finesse.

Stepping out with a dusky 4th world blooz beauty ‘noite de verão’ akin to Serpente meets Jon Hassell, the LP is brimming over with charm between the Lifted-esque, cuboid jazz-fusion swang of ‘loopi’, and the balmy shuffler ‘cha cha’ recalling classic Luis Delgado, keeping toes off the ground with the Balearic dub suspension system of ’tutti frutti’, and thru the downbeat Goan sand-trampler ‘amour & paix’, to pill bellied sensations of ‘bombetta’, and the feathered dub chords that effortlessly buoy her blissed stepper ‘por el universo #2’ into the liquid-limbed lather of ‘confetti’.