simbad - after the dance (bugz in the attic remix)

i was tipped off on this track by swedish blog ohbabyilikeitraw.com where it was given a massive hype up back in '08. the original is simbad doing a version of marvin gaye's classic 'after the dance' in a west london meets motown kind of way. simbad brought on swedish singer melo to do his best marvin gaye impersonation and while he fails at that he delivers a vocal performance that doesn't sink the track.

the bugz in the attic remix is this heavy syncopated drum groove with some strings and some key twiddling by kaidi tatham. melos vocals rides on top and all that sitting on some stacatto bass. it's kind of a different flavour compared to simbads original and it's more west london than motown. but i have to say that while i love this tracks it has given me some of the biggest frustration when i've tried to dj with it. the syncopation will have you shitting bricks the first time you try to mix out of it.

reason being that while you get a kick on the one in the beginning the bugz take it out and the repeated two bar key sequence in the latter part of the track starts on the three. broken beat sometimes seems to push the limits on what is 4/4 but i think it's interesting and much harder than to just play the same four on the floor. ever since i discovered broken beat i thought i want to try to work this even though i shouldn't have touched the stuff. reason being that i'm the kind of idiot that sometimes takes the hard route and then bitch and moans about taking that route and then when he pulls it off thinks that everyone needs to kiss his ass.

it tends to go like this when i play some musics (on a webstream mostly): i play an half hour of housey stuff and then think "well let's try to spice this up then". and then i go for a bugz in the attic/zed bias/domu related tune and then either it goes nicely or i just break flow for no fucking reason. people that has heard my sets know what i'm talking about. this is my formal apology for that nonsense but note is that i'm not going to stop doing this because taking the easy route is and just playing the same four on the floor for two hours is just sometimes boring.

anyhow this tune is amazing but i think the bugz in the attic guys should have done a better work on their dub since that version is just a load of bollocks i think that the jerky looping thing that is scattered throughout that version is crap. so in conclusion, i can write a lot about nothing.

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