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Ilario Alicante And Alejandro Mosso: Cocoon Ibiza
(Cocoon)
Reviewed By
- David Knight
Cocoon is the Law & Order of techno. Reliable, slightly predictable but if it’s on, you won’t turn it off.
Even if one of the discs on here is a new signing Alejandro Mosso’s mix of his productions and remixes, it’s not like when (the then) relatively unkown Omar-S did the same for Fabric (or to go back further when Ricardo Villalobos did it). With that in mind, Cocoon Ibiza is the SVU of Cocoon compilations, as the double-disc offering strays from the formula yet serves up a fantastic deep house and techno selection from Ilario Alicante with his mix.
If this is the sound of Ibiza, then clubbing is in good shape as London and Detroit collide with highlights such as Benjamin Damage’s 010x and Omar-S’ It’s Money In The D. With his mix, Mosso shows why he was signed by Cocoon, as the South American’s all-Mosso selection grabs from the get-go.
This episode is a classic.
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