How many times can one producer remake his own back catalogue before it curdles into a nostalgia racket? For Mauro Picotto the answer keeps being at least once more, because The Twilight Zone (V2) has no right to hit this clean. This is him taking an old idea back into the lab and giving it a 2026 chassis, the melody still that stern, marching trance line he has been writing variations on for twenty-five years. The V2 tag is honest: it is tighter, the kick is modern and physical, the stabs cut through on a big system in a way the original could only dream about. There is a question hanging over every trance legend’s late-period output, whether it is art or merchandise, and Picotto keeps answering it by simply making the new version better than the memory. It should feel like a cash-in. It feels like a man who still means every note of it.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.