Thursday 17 November 2011

goldfrapp - strict machine (benny benassi dub)

this is one of those remixes that changed my view on the benassi cousins for one inkling during the time they seemed to "satisfaction-ise" everything with their remixes and tracks. they later toned it down and kept it to having their signature sound being the sidechaining but not the other parts from "satisfaction".

i think they did two versions of this remix and that the main mix is infaction a sfaction version but the dub is the more interesting one. it's this resonant pumping piece of "not quite acid house" and "pumping clobb muzik" had it been released five years earlier.

it kicks along with a bassline that filters in the rest and it gets right into action quite fast and has a line from the original saying "i'm in love" repeated. benassi does throw a link to moroder/donna summer but so did goldfrapp sort of.

the breakdown is one of those that fades down to silence and i think i discovered this one before i went on a tirades against those kind of breakdowns which is why i haven't treated the track like leper. it also has to do that the break does sort of suit the purpose of the track since it's energy level is set to firmly on eleven in all points (sans the break).

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