SYSTEM OLYMPIA Vinilo y CD

Review: Second time around for Francesca Macri's first outing as System Olympia, which originally landed in stores back in 2017. This time round, she's expanded it from eight tracks to six, adding a couple more unheard and unreleased cuts from the period to the enticing bvlend of original productions, pitched-down reworks and sneaky re-edits. Beginning with the pitched-down electrofunk of 'Call Girl' (a tweak of a little-known Danny Boy tune), Macri ambles her way through synth-and-drum machine heavy cuts that variously touch on Italo-disco, leftfield '80s synth-pop, new wave, Balearic pop (see 'Close to My Nebula'), dreamy electro and slow-motion excellence. Atmospheric, synth-powered and full of playable cuts, it's a fine EP all told.

Review: Francesca Macri's System Olympia project takes the best bits of Italo, disco, boogie and house and distills them into something fresh and sincere. As her cover art unfailingly spells out, this is sexy music first and foremost, and that intention charges her productions with a heart which positively radiates out of the speakers. Her Okay Nature label has been a reliable conduit for her prolific output, following up on last year's Always On Time record with this new EP which features a surprise appearance from Working Men's Club on the title track 'Sanctified'. It's a melancholic centre point to an EP which maintains Macri's thematic focus on the spiritual dimension of pleasure.

Review: System Olympia has been back and digging in the archives for this superb new and limited album, the New Erotica Collection (Durante Edition). It features some of their past tunes that have been sold out in quick fashion because of limited runs and others that have actually never before been available on vinyl. As you will know, or as you will find out, these are hallucinogenic tunes with mixes of disco, new wave, 80s pop, instrumental and nu-disco influences and each of them will light up any dancefloor with plenty of provocative and erotic undertones - just look at the cover!

Review: NTS Radio host Francesca Macri aka System Olympia presents her second full-length album titled Racing Heart, a neon-lit soundtrack for an evening drive in a Mercedes Benz that she's released on her Okay Nature imprint. Highlights are the sensual, late-night boogie-down vibe of 'All Mine Now', the slo-mo synthwave of 'Link Of Truth' and the saccaharine '80s pop aesthetic of 'War Of The Hearts' could have been in a John Hughes film.