Raduan - Taki-Naki-Naki [TD006]

Taki Naki Naki is an Italian curio from 1988 which has titillated diggers for decades now. Raduan isn't especially well known, but he worked with Lino Rufo on one other single in 1991 which was also coveted by those mining the mellow Balearic sound. Now Tempo Dischi have picked up on this cult record and given it a delightful fresh pressing with subtly embellished artwork that, to be honest, improves on the original. Musically, 'Taki Naki Naki' is everything an Italian curveball should be, rolling at that iconic cosmic tempo, loaded with off-kilter synth lines and striking a mood somewhere between joyous and melancholic, full of passion and funky in that curiously Southern European way.