Sweet, Soulful and sexy grooves today from and edit of The Emotions track from 1976 ‘Emotion’. When the loopy intro gives way to the original vocal a smile pops onto your face, you can’t help it. It’s the kind of track that makes you fondly remember things from the 70′s even though, if like me, you weren’t alive. Really liking the touches of echo on the vocals.
There’s a fair few re-rubs of Sharon Redd’s seminal track out there. In fairness the original has so many amazing qualities and parts that a lot of the edits come out quite differently. This one from one of our buddies, Brooklyn’s jKriv, dub’s out the vocal’s but keeps the soul of the original. Gone is the sax solo, replaced by a potent bit of jungle madness and spoken word. This is a real edit for people who know and like the original and just can’t get enough of its groove. Tasteful stuff.
In the Machine age and PTA have teamed up to bring us this free track. Heavy on looped strings and jazz flute notes it has a sort of odd spooky appeal and an intelligent feel. It seems so simple on a first listen but theres a lot of very special things going on here. I especially like the trumpet stabs and the woozy break at about the halfway mark. You get locked into its groove and although it doesnt change its overally direction you dont really want it to.
A double post today as it’s a Friday and we thought we’d represent 2 ends of a scale. You have 2 options today, Disco or House.
First up is a Leftside Wobble edit of a Beatles Track. Now I know what your thinking (im gifted like that), there are very few Beatles edits out there, and for good reason. They are a very hard band to touch for numerous reasons, one being that everyone knows them inside out. However if anyone was to do it justice it would be Leftside Wobble, his edits always deliver an air of sophistication and grace and this psychedelic and pulsing edit does just that, its brave, different, hypnotic, original(ish) and because of all these qualities…..rare.
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Secondly we have house up and comers Waze & Odyssey with a track they originally gave away on Data Transmission cause theyre generous like that. This one is for all the people that like their house chunky and brash. With muscular kicks and plenty of alluring breakdowns this floor ready number will certainly get you ready for the weekend. Waze & Odyssey have a knack of making a handful of elements work for them by being confident with their arrangement and its paying off for them at the moment. Keep an ear out for their track ‘I Can’t Hear You (Dance)’ thats been put out by our buddies over at Sccucci Manucci.
A gift from a young Mexican producer today. I find this one a little bit difficult to classify, it has elements of cosmic disco, tropical bits, and a housey groove. It is what it is! How about that for an impatient cop-out. Some nice dynamics in this one anyway and that’s the important part. Its sounds a bit like there’s 2 robots having sex in the background. Hate to walk in on this studio mid flow.