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Truesoul releases debut collaboration from long-time friends Carlo Lio & DJ Boris, ‘City Lights’

Thomas Gaboury-Potvin
Reviews, Techno
9 March 2022

First time on Adam Beyer’s younger imprint for friends and frequent collaborators, Toronto’s Carlo Lio and NYC kingpin DJ Boris link for a driving techno two-tracker, out now.

Carlo’s mesmeric grooves and Boris’ drum-punishing sound produce the kind of infectious techno you can get lost in until before you know it it’s Monday morning. Linking in Miami, they produced this two-tracker, which joins a solid back catalogue of releases for both including the likes of Mindshake, Edible and Transmit Recordings. They’re just about to kick off a B2B tour of NYC, DC, Miami and many more.

Title track ‘City Nights’ while still drum-driven, with a rattling rhythm and a hi-hat monsoon, has a sultry vibe, the industrial elements and spoken vocals conjuring visions of the big city alive at night. ‘Break it Down’ has bongos, castanets, frantic hi-hats, the works, ganging up on a boom, boom beat, relentless and hypnotic, while a robotic vocal makes a mantra of the title. Dark fun.

“Carlo sent me some start-up grooves that I loved so I worked on them, we went back and forth and it came together really fast,” Boris says. “It always flows when we work together, we both know how we like a track to sound. This is a big one!’

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