Fantastic Man is a pretty unbeatable moniker. Australia's finest low-slung, slow-mo disco connoisseur Mic Newman lives up to his title, producing the kind of hi-res, immaculately glossy disco-tinged auteur-house that's custom built for long balmy afternoons without a care in the world and a cocktail in hand. He's taken time out from blazing in the sweltering heat of Berlin in the summer to hand-deliver us a gorgeously done remix of a tune that's been blowing up down under all year. Seriously, he zipped over to THUMP HQ on a moped and everything.The original, by Touch Sensitive, recently became the most Shazam'd tune off the telly, has had over 2 million plays and is a perfectly poised slice of contemporary synthpop that you probably can't avoid in Sydney right now.Soft touch, soft focused chiming pads roll over and under 808-boogie percussion, slipping and sliding like a big bloke in a paddling pool of vaseline. Pseudo-panpipes parp away in an approximation of Balearic bliss. Tropical sunset sensations abound — Fantastic Man's "Pizza Guy" rerub is more Hawiaiin than an 18" ham and pineapple from that weird place down the road that does a banging deal on garlic bread.
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