Australia's favourite son, Lewie Day, better known as Tornado Wallace, teams up with Test Pressing to serve us some golden-era prog revisionism. As noted before, Tornado Wallace is quite the dab hand at taking a genre's tropes and imbuing them with his winning combination of finely tuned, melodic nouse and good humour. Here, he sets his targets firmly on progressive house in the long-form form of 'Bitter Suite'.

In its main version, this is the very definition of a slow-burner. Starting with a pretty guitar motif that gradually builds in intensity before being joined by what might be a didgeridoo and suitably celestial pads, Wallace is more than happy to make us wait over four minutes before putting the boot in with a rock solid kick drum. Leaning into that strain of progressive house that took its rhythmic cues from Danny Tenaglia's weighty, brawny bottom end, this is a perfectly balanced exercise in gossamer melodies and foundation-shaking bass presence. Once again, things then build slowly with sustained strings and even a very subtle drum roll. This is much more about restraint than the blunt force of epic drops. Here 'Bitter Suite' looks to the rich emotive textures of Sasha & Digweed's 'Northern Exposure' mix CD, a time before the whole shebang became somewhat weighted down with a portentous sense of its own importance. Whilst definitely epic in its length and scope, Tornado Wallace never loses his sense of fun.

He also deconstructs the track into a beatless 'Symphony' version, the very Jungian ideal of a sunrise tune. Sparkling arpeggios bounce playfully against surging synths. You can almost smell the pine-scented Ibizan air. For the DJs, we get an incredibly powerful 'Beat' version, which is so much more than a basic rhythm track. It has easily enough dynamic force to play entirely in its right. In a nice nod to the forefathers of this sound, Rui Da Silva is drafted in on remix duties. He delivers a rework that swoops between deep, bassy passages and urgent rising synths, building toward a classily handled breakdown.

'Bitter Suite' is out now on Test Pressing Recordings.