Owen Jay & Melchior Sultana - Dream Landscape (2021)

Old studio buddies Owen Jay and Melchior Sultana have previously proved adept at delivering dreamy, musically rich deep house and downtempo grooves, so it's no surprise to find that their latest full-length outing is entitled Dream Landscape. It's a fitting title all told, with the pair variously mixing and matching colourful synth sounds, summery chords, squelchy bass, yearning piano lines, dubby basslines and atmospheric electronics with electro, deep house, post-dubstep and downtempo beats. Throw in occasional nods to jazz-house (see the super-deep 'Shine Through'), darker tech-house (the clandestine 'Jackin') and pleasingly horizontal ambient ('Blurred Vision') and you have a genuinely superb set that entertains from start to finish.