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Households - this is really very lovely and and is a bit too short in my opinion! Would like to hear it grow further!
Not Giving in - not really my scene poppy d'n'b, but this is passable likely due to the soulful vocal/s
Cream - raised a smile when it kicked off the recent OOTO......
Butterflies - can't put my finger on why this is so good but it really is a superb jump-up track.... think this might go well with "Wallace" by Andhim........ when you get to 3 mins it really starts to deliver. great party track.
101 - as ever totally sultry, lush vocals.... want to give this LP a good listen soon. Comfortably up there in my top three female soloists of the modern era.
S
Woozy with Cider - I really don't know what to say about this track just yet.... i know it's beautifully melancholic but i just can't really make out how i feel about it.... very enigmatic - will be revisiting quite a bit i imagine.
Matildas Dream - for some reason this makes me want to drop the Chuck Roberts vocal over the top... just a little bit, not for the whole thing....in the beginning there was Jack...maybe it's just my ears playing up again....great track, straight into my masterlist.
The Fugitive - straight up modern deep house classic, Ben Watts Buzzin Fly label, i believe - wouldnt expect anything less in terms of quality - mint tune.
Schwindelig (IOD rmx) - I wrote something quite vitriolic about this and then remembered myself and thought it was both immature and unneccessary. Suffice to say: I feel let down by the remix (especially given the man in the chair doing the job, whose work i am usually fond of) considering the absolutely outstanding class of the original track. Hugely disappointing. I made it all the way through on the third attempt in order to be able to pass judgment fully and I'm really sorry, I have tried, I just cannot 'do' this remix. Part of it is like a fucking Guetta track (sorry that just leaked out at the end - I tried my hardest)
Sedulous - my #2 track I've heard this year thus far... monstrous. Highly, highly addictive.
H
INFLUENCES PT.III
The Charmels - stone. cold. classic.....music; vocals; production all 100% perfect.
Wu Tang Clan - hopefully this explains the title of your recent house track on OOTO...taken from 1993's best hip hop LP by a country mile... this was THE tune of the year..that's not conjecture it was voted in Hip Hop Connection magazine by the readers and industry alike during 1994 (yep I do remember it, sdly). nb/ I think, I stress the word think, that after this track the slang cheese or more recently "cheddar" became widely used and accepted as a nickname for money (and later drugs also, because they obviously = cash, ultimtely) in gangster lingo in the USA ... Cash.Rules.Everything.Around.Me (cream) .... hopefully don't need to explain the link further...enough dairy related ebonics. Onward...
Chromatics - there's a few important tracks off this LP which i only heard a couple of years ago (one of them being edited and included on the Drive soundtrack a year or so ago).... poisonous guitar lick, some nice melodies and a quite saddened yet intruiging vocal which shows tinges of hope then tails off into sounding almost "I'm quite bored"... makes it almost all the more appealing somehow - again; might just be my ears.
Erol Alkan - what better way to evoke the 80's than become obsessed and inspired by a track written in 2007, get yourself hopelessly high, waffle down a microphone about dolphin love and people with no hair, write a quite soul destroyingly beautiful synth melody, drop prelim beat, let it go electronically weird/introverted for a minute, use tacky bubble-gum electro-pop drum pattern, throw beautiful synth back in, let it all mingle and build.......surely all that's left to do is drop in a melancholic balearic guitar solo to finish. Your work here is done Erol. You nutjob. p.s I love you.
CeCe Rogers - undoubtedly one of THE most influential tracks in the modern era of electronic music, not just because of that piano lick but because of the sentiment at the heart of the record which is subconciously/consciously one of the reasons we, of the rave generation, love dance music.... equality, superb shared experiences, freedom, coming together to enjoy life. Finding out about this record as a kid researching Liquid's sample was like a monumentous epiphany - I swear down; I almost cried. It's the soul equivalent of a hippy record, but fuck me hard is it good. Only sorry I couldn't find a fuller version on Spot.
KOKO,
H x
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