A spiritual heir to Nathan Fake’s “The Sky Was Pink,” without all the DJ versions and help afforded by James Holden, Minilogue’s “The Girl from Botany Bay” is a self-assured progressive house behemoth, set to annihilate any dancefloor that it comes across. The first release from Treibstoff sub-label Wir, the Swedish duo Minilogue, best known in the tech-house world for their Radiohead sampling 12” for Traum, mine the sort of giddy pop music that their country has been known for and compress the results into a gem of melodic yearning. Utilizing the loudest kick drum ever recorded, rosy fingertip synths, and a girl in a bathtub, the track hums along in its first seven minutes towards a climax never reached in Fake’s original or Holden’s remix of the same that obliterates. Apparently there’s a B-side. I’d actually never seen the words supertip before, but this release demands it.

Wir / 001
[Todd Burns]