You Are (Love)

You Are (Love) is CC004, Riscape’s first Club Copy record, an EP of four tracks running 15:02. The label’s page prices the digital edition at $9 CAD and says the cassette is sold out. It calls the cassette the first Club Copy cassette. Released 18 September 2026, the date on both the site and Bandcamp. The tracks, in order, are “You Are (Love)” (3:03), “Make It Right” (3:23), “Action” (4:15), and — on Bandcamp — “Days Like This” (4:21). The Club Copy page prints the last title as “Day Like This.” One letter, and the sort of letter that makes two databases disagree forever. The public sleeve at riscape.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-love says “Days.” This piece follows that.

The Bandcamp note is the artist’s, and it is the only statement from him this review needs. Ioannis Rigas writes that he wanted something “vintage but contemporary,” a groove that paid homage to “the classic house structures and sounds of our time,” and he signs the work as written by Ioannis Rigas and produced by Riscape for Club Copy and Copy House Publishing. That is a clearer credit than most dance EPs bother with. Writer and producer are separated. The homage is declared rather than implied by a filter. Vintage-but-contemporary is a crowded promise in 2020s house — a lot of records mean “a Rhodes and a shaker.” The value of the sentence is that it tells a non-specialist what the EP thinks it is doing: song form, classic structures, color, respect. Whether it earns the respect is a listening question. The intention is no longer a guess.

Riscape’s artist page supplies the biography the EP sits inside. Athens. Piano at Chalandri’s National Conservatory, then production study at SAE Athens and Grey Studios. Releases from 2020. A run of melodic house on the Dutch label Mystery Freedom from 2021, including EPs called Unity and Two x S. The page also says that in 2026 his remix of “Synth Magic,” by Alphed Le Cornett and JARR Head, reached number one on Beatport’s Trance (Main Floor) Top 100 New Releases. That chart position is the label’s claim. It is not re-audited here; it is attributed. What the biography is for, in a review of CC004, is scale. This is not a first record by a new producer. It is the first record on this imprint by a producer who already had a label, a radio mix of his own (Riscape Reality Radio, described on the page as a series of the records shaping his sound plus his own), and a conservatory in the résumé. The Club Copy EP is a change of address, not a beginning.

Four tracks at pop-song length are the formal evidence of the Bandcamp note. “Action,” the longest, is 4:15. Nothing here is a side-long DJ tool. Classic house, the thing the note names, was often both a song and a tool — a vocal record you could also mix. An EP that stays inside five minutes a track is choosing the song. “You Are (Love)” as a title is almost comically direct, which is a house tradition of its own: devotion stated in the plainest words, so the music has to carry the embarrassment or the sincerity. “Make It Right” and “Days Like This” are the same kind of title, the language of repair and ordinary happiness. “Action” is the one that sounds like a function. A sequence that moves from a declaration of love to a demand for action is a small plot. It may be accidental. It is still the plot the titles make.

The cassette line matters for a label that talks about objects. Digital is the edition anyone can buy. The cassette, sold out, is the edition that can no longer be chosen. Club Copy’s about page describes a record club in which nothing ships unless you choose it. A sold-out tape is the point at which that choice has already been made by someone else. For a first physical edition, that is a clean story: a short run existed, and it went. It is not a story about scarcity as a personality. It is a story about a format doing what small formats do.

The next Riscape title on the label is Tell Me, CC009, released 10 October 2026, three tracks — “My Whole Life,” “Tell Me Something,” “Tell Me Nothing” — at $4.99. Read back to back with CC004, the titles keep the same habit: plain speech, questions, a life. The critical case for You Are (Love) is that it introduced that habit on Club Copy with the credits in order and the lengths of songs rather than the lengths of sets. The conservatory is context. The four tracks are the work. Days, plural, on the last title. The other spelling can stay on the page that has not been corrected.