B-Side Guys

Carlos Salame’s Trip Tease project thrives in the space between recollection and invention, and “Palcon Funch” exemplifies that delicate balance. The track opens with synthesizer washes that feel less like melody and more like ambient temperature—warm, enveloping, faintly melancholic in that way Italo disco always managed when it slowed down enough to breathe.

What distinguishes Salame’s approach here is his restraint. Where many producers mining ’80s aesthetics pile on the nostalgia signifiers until tracks collapse under their own reverence, “Palcon Funch” keeps its arrangement spare enough to let individual elements register emotionally. The bassline pulses with analog warmth, anchoring dreamy synth progressions that drift without ever fully resolving. There’s a hypnotic quality to the repetition, each cycle revealing subtle variations in texture and tone that reward sustained attention.

The production evokes that specific strain of early electronic music where technology still felt utopian rather than ubiquitous—when synthesizers promised access to previously unimaginable sonic worlds. Salame, drawing from his collaborations across electronic and ambient spheres, understands how to make instrumental music communicate mood without relying on obvious emotional cues. “Palcon Funch” exists as pure atmosphere, the kind of track that works equally well as focused listening or as the soundtrack to late-night drives through empty streets.

For nu-disco that resists dancefloor functionality in favor of something more contemplative, this hits exactly right.