Love From The Archipelago / Reworks / Oswego Music – By Patrick Syms

Pukka prose by Patrick Syms. Love surrounds this second release from Oswego Music. The label was set up last year by Lovehandles. The first release included his masterful reworking of a love-themed 80s mega-hit. Now the label’s second release is the debut from an enigmatic knob twiddler sometimes known as Love From The Archipelago. That’s a whole lot of love. It’s also evident in the music itself. Edits have a long and storied history. Today, practitioners arguably fall into two broad categories: the lazy ones who simply quantise the time slippy original and slap on a bovine 4/4 kick drum; and those that treat the source material with love and reverence in an attempt to create something a little different, something greater than the sum of its parts. Love From The Archipelago sits squarely in this last group. The vinyl-only “Rework” EP comprises five very different tracks. According to the press one-sheet, the artist is “a musical nomad who divides his time between the mountains of…