the name jeff bennett was shoved down my throat about five years ago by a mate of mine who said that he was the next big thing. he couldn't believe that i didn't know who he was because bennett also being swedish. i was given a crash course in his productions and i found out he made techno, house, occasionally something proggy and a lot times some thing dubby.
i like a few of his productions but nothing has stuck on me as much as a version of håkan lidbo's capoeira. the original is this lovely latin house excursion with a great groove, heavy drums & percussion and the whole nine yards. lidbo is usually really good at one of those tracks.
bennett's main mix is sort of techno but with a dub slant but it's still driving and keeps the latin influences and it did nothing for me at the time but his dub however. it takes the tempo down a notch and has this steady bongo groove carrying the track throughout.
of course it also employs the usual reverb, flange and other modulations to widen the soundscapes while it puts the horn from the original right in center. the track starts off kind of mellow but picks up some steam in the last quarter and i've had some fun trying to work this track out in sets.
at first i didn't know how to place it but it was more of a case of me where i was playing all these tracks at 130bpm and trying to work everything. my aspiration was to be versatile but it just came off awkward and sets had no flow and i constantly tried to overlap tunes for the sake of overlapping.
that also had to do with me hearing that sasha, digweed and a few others did these four minute transitions and i wanted to redo that. even when i was playing tracks that didn't enable that. ah when you are young, curious and stupid.
anyhow, this tune is wicked and so is all three versions included in the release but i hold bennett's dub highest in regards.
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