Rework - Disco Love

Rework’s ‘Disco Love’ EP Mines Acid-Tinged Disco and Resonant Low-End Tension.

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.