The Return of Invisible College

Possibly the greatest dance record of 2007, in our eyes one of the tracks that truly defined the ressurgance of the spacey / cosmic / beardo / whatever disco sound.

Coming of like the sound of a John of Rupescissa playing guitar, walking the corridoors of a secluded monestry outposted on the hills of Formentara, Invisible College builds and builds with gothic and uplifiting sounds pieced together to form an epic piece of music to completely loose your mind to. Each instrument is added one by one, be they analogue synths, vintage fx, and rattling drums, held together by a fuzzy, warm resonance, as if the whole thing is bouncing off the stone walls of chapel as you face the alter. The whole thing builds into a rich cacophony of layer upon layer of sound until about eight minutes in the whole thing drops back to just the lush jangling of the guitar for the breakdown.

The track was originally put out as a single sided, super limited release on the much-lorded Dissident imprint, and was immediately snapped up by anyone with more than a drop of taste. But as is the Dissident mantra, the label doesn't own the music, the artists do, and after almost three years of waiting, Gatto Fritto have re-released the track on their own Fritto Morto label.

If you pay for only one track throughout July, then make it Invisible College. An absolutely timeless recording that we personally could not live without.

Check it out on Juno here.