Taking her talents to Fluid Funk here comes Liverpool’s very own Louise Baldwin, alias Petals In Sound. She has been championing a floor-oriented sound both delectably groovy and soulful over the years, and her debut for Fluid Funk, “Rhode to Nowhere”, is a testament to the silkiness of her musical touch. The British producer serves up an EP of charmingly jacking and loungey blends, geared and ready for extensive club use, whether you’re in for a last sunset dance or need warming the crowd up to a simmer in no time. Summer’s here already.

The title-track, ‘Rhode to Nowhere’ is pure Chicagoan business in the purest sense of the term. Take a straight out hissy shuffle, add up some smoky reverbs, intricate drum programming and ethereal pads languidly scudding by, and you pretty much got what this one’s about. Going the more in-your-face route, “Furusato” injects some bassy power to the equation, whilst stressing further on the hazy jazz suavity. Smacking of cold Havanas and ron-like exhalations, this one’s a trip on its own, fusing the liquid-like flowrate of modern dance music with the soulfulness of brass-laden bop on a slow, after time tip. Switching back to the no-nonsense jacking dynamics of the opener and lead single, “Lido” exudes pure sensuality throughout its four-minute-odd showdown of gridlocked 4x4 manoeuvres, piano stabs and synth-splattered funk out the space disco age. Feel the love.