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Known to some as Swell Sessions and Stateless, Saag heads back over to the label that started him out in order to drop some bad-ass, Carnival-esque, samba-house energy. The a-side's "Tristese" goes full-on, with haunting, restrained lead vocals, distant horns and thin layers of crowd noise bumping over the kick drum and charging shuffle beats. He remixes it with a deliciously melodic bassline and chords on the flip, and rounds the disc out with the more relaxed and shimmy-inducing "Camborele." Solid.