Claptrap’s latest release takes us back to the early 1980s, revisiting the work of the obscure Italo-disco producer Francisco D’Argento. The featured track, “Problemi,” is an appropriately rare cut, with vocals performed by both D’Argento and his second wife, actress and model Eleanora D’Argento.

Musically, it delivers everything you would expect from a classic bittersweet Italo-disco production: pulsating rhythms, deep and spacey chords, bubbling sequenced basslines and precise, metronomic drum-machine beats.

Donald Dust pushes the track into heavier and sharper territory with a terrific revision driven by a stronger Hi-NRG feel. Dr Valentine takes the opposite route, slowing things down and transforming the track into a warm, sun-soaked, Balearic-inspired chugger.

To complete the package, label regulars Vanity Project offer their own interpretation, landing somewhere between vintage Chicken Lips, acid-tinged nu-disco and the darker, more sinister Italo aesthetic associated with I-F.