usually i just talk about tracks that i really like or something that i bought and in most cases a combination of former and latter. this one i've been on the look for a long time since i was tipped off on it as being a really great version of "the child".
i would like to refute that infact this version isn't great at all. it's very source direct but it's the kind of track that only works in a set because it's minimalism. source direct are quite known for their stripped down and darker tracks and i enjoy those tracks as well but i like their good looking records-esque atmospheric tracks like "shimmer".
this track was given plenty of versions and there is in fact a couple of excellent ones by faze action (one that i played in a set), demon, wuz (etienne de crecy & gopher) and the most known version by kenny dope gonzalez. faze action uses more of gophers production and add so much additional music to it and i love it. but the version by source direct is just a drumbreak, gophers bassline and every once a while a small sample from either gopher's production or small bits from "god bless the child"
the story of the original is apparently that alex gopher was overwhelmed with joy when he became a father or found out that he was going to be a father and decided to make a track about it. he sampled billie holiday's classic "god bless the child" and built a track under it.
what really guts me about source direct's version is that they could have easily used the billie holiday sample to it's fullest and done an excellent jazzy version but no. it's just stripped down drum & bass however i do see use for it in a set and the groove is quite nice.
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