Rework’s new Disco Love is an Acid-Tinged Disco Delight

For more than two decades, Rework have specialized in a kind of cold-blooded body music, distilling elements of house, electro, and new wave into sleek, tensile grooves. Their latest, the two-track ‘Disco Love’ EP refines that formula with a tight-lipped focus. Following last year’s Never Again LP and a remix collaboration with Seth Troxler and Cinthie, Michael Kuebler and Daniel Varga strip things back to their essence, delivering a release that’s as icy as it is infectious.

The title track is a sparse, disco-electro hybrid that leans hard into acid house—all rubbery basslines, skeletal drum programming, and an undercurrent of nervy tension. There’s a dry, mechanical funk to its locked groove, a studied coolness that feels at once detached and hypnotic.

Flipping the script, You Keep Me Hanging On is built on a thunderous low-end, slowly ratcheting up the tension across its runtime. Where ‘Disco Love’ is all clipped precision, ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’ leans into a swelling, almost claustrophobic intensity.

Rework’s fingerprints are all over modern club music: their six albums and myriad releases on Playhouse, My Favorite Robot, Get Physical Music, and Exlove Records have been rinsed by selectors across generations. Remixes from Trentemøller, Magda, Roman Flügel, Fur Coat, and Andrew Weatherall cement their status as architects of a distinctively European cool—somewhere between the frosted futurism of electroclash and the after-hours throb of minimal house.

Meanwhile, their exlove records imprint continues to chart its own course, threading together synthwave, post-punk, indie, house, techno, electro, and synthpop with an unerring sense of purpose.

Disco Love is out now on exlove records

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