Hi there, excuse me—do you have a moment to talk about this year’s song of the summer? It’s April, but it’s 82 degrees in New York City, and I can hear the ice-cream truck turning the corner on my block: I’m ready to stake a claim. Specifically, I’m putting forth PPP’s “Wisco,” a tingling dose of minimal club that hits like the first slug of an ice-cold tequila mate. The opening track on Bborn Again, a new EP from Milan’s Piezo, Melbourne’s DJ Plead, and New York’s DJ Python, is less a party anthem than a rave fulcrum, the kind of secret weapon that offers both dancefloor release and heavyweight pressure. Embedded in its arpeggiated pads, chimes, and windswept atmospherics is the same chillmaxed peak-time rhapsody favoured by peers like Nick León and Facta, whose ever-consistent imprint with K-Lone, Wisdom Teeth, released this track.
Slick but never breaking a sweat, “Wisco” capitalizes on the trio’s respective signatures—Python’s left-of-center deep house, Piezo’s wriggly sound design, Plead’s Lebanese pop-infused bass hooks—without lounging on any individual laurels. But if I had to pick an MVP, it’s Plead, whose syncopated hand drums effortlessly propel “Wisco” forward without tripping over themselves. Like DJ Swisha’s “Club Megamixxx” and León and Erika de Casier’s “Bikini” before it, “Wisco” feels destined to ooze from every traveling sound system and stationary setup in Brooklyn and beyond this season. So what if it’s run-through by September—if everything stayed cool forever, we wouldn’t have summer at all.
