Sounds FamiliarVolume 2with music from Kaidi Tatham, Carista, Alex From Tokyo, GigiTesta, Zopelar and K15Sounds Familiar is celebrating a decade in dance music by releasing 3 LP’s throughout 2023.Titled “Familiar Sounds”, after vol 1 released in April 23 which featured the likes of DegoKamma & Masalo, Aleqs Notal Feat Anu, Kai Alcé, Retromigration and Hugo LX, the secondvolume of the trilogy will be out on September 1st.Collecting six new tracks that join the dots between elastic acid house and candle-lit pianojazz,Familiar Sounds Volume 2, features Kaidi Tatham, Carista, Gigi Testa, Zopelar, AlexFrom Tokyo and K15, on a 12” that reaches into all corners of the roster’s electronic jazz-influenced sound.The album begins with Kaidi Tatham’s upstart summer anthem ‘Misguided Youts’. Built on apiano vamp and an infectious horn line, the track eases into a consummate piece of futurefusion, stirring the melting pot of London’s jazz and broken beat heritage into the kind ofsoulful jam that has rightly earned him his legendary reputation.Things take a deep dive on track two with Carista tweaking the dials to deliver a slice ofrubbery four-to-the-floor dancefloor business. Rattling snap-back snares give her track ‘LoveMe Right’ a kind of early hours dynamism, the dream-like vocal sample drifting across aroom of loose and swaying bodies.Gigi Testa rounds out the A-side with shuffling outernational house track ‘Summer Snow’.Integrating his passion for global rhythms, the Rush Hour affiliate and Organica record shopowner channels the shimmering opulence of the Amalfi coast on what is an indulgent boatparty of lush pads and sun-dappled melodies.Opening the B-side, Zopelar delivers the jazzy, disco-infused house of ‘Arapuca’. There’s askittish energy to Zopelar’s latest offering, which wriggles and jives between muted trumpetimprovisations, George Duke’s ‘A Brazilian Love Affair’ and the kind of in-the pocket synthwork he is known to have among his arsenal of musical skills.Up next, Alex From Tokyo weaves in the striped back influence of his former Berlin homeinto the techno-pop landscape of hisJapanese upbringing, heading in to go out on thecosmic club cut ‘Wa Galaxy’.Closing out the LP is DJ, producer and man of many monikers, K15. Putting on his jazz hatperhaps most associated with his work as Culross Close, ‘Autumn’ is a solo piano ballad thatbrings the exuberance of high summer to a reflective end, demonstrating just how variedand open-minded the world of Sounds Familiar is.