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Tema Due, Nicola Conte & Nico Lahs
EP1
Schema - Cat No: SCEP547
- updated:2025-10-24
"EP1," the debut 12-inch release from Tema Due—an ambitious new project that pushes the boundaries of creativity, featuring Nicola Conte, a legend of the Italian new jazz scene and a leading artist on the Schema label, and Nico Lahs, a producer based in Bari who is gaining international recognition!!!
Track List
Nicola Conte once again expands creativity through a joint venture with fellow Bari-based and rising to international fame producer Nico Lahs: a connection rooted in an artistic synergy melting leftfield dance music and live organic sounds. Stylistically, Tema Due have a sophisticated, elegant approach to dance music for clubs. Anchored in Afro-jazz percussion, the sound evolves into electronic territory through an irresistible groove. The compositions are richly layered yet deceptively simple: on "Macumba De Oxalá" - whose title alone evokes trance-like states and cathartic release - voices and instruments gradually emerge, building toward an increasingly hypnotic and immersive crescendo. La Danse de l'Esprit unfolds in a similar fashion and features four special guests who bring an exotic, textured feel to the track: Dario Bassolino on electric piano, Magnus Lindgren on flute, Abdissa Assefa on percussion, and Lalin St. Juste on vocals.

BPM 128, multi-layered harmonies of Brazilian a cappella scat, a hypnotic groove driven by Afro-Latin percussion, and an immersive climax building toward the latter half—all combined into an organically crossover, trance-like, cutting-edge dance track of insanely cool appeal. Side A: “Macumba De Oxala” (sample 1), BPM 122, featuring four special guest artists on vocals, flute, electric piano, and congas & percussion—a Schema-style crossover soul-jazz deep house track, Side-B “La Danse L’Esprit” (sample 2). This release features two tracks, each guaranteed to get the dance floor moving. We’re also looking forward to “EP2,” which is set to be released soon. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)