this one was discovered definitely through discogs because i really don't know what emma bunton did musically after the spice girls, apart from a jump in on the tin tin out cover of edie brickell/the new bohemian's "what i am". which was decent, captures sort of the tone of the original but not as good but the gang starr remix was a few notches better.
little sidetrack now but that gang starr remix was unreal in a few respects, mostly that premier would touch something inferior like that but also that guru mentions emma bunton's name in the adlibs for the intro. this same feeling came when i heard bunton's version of this astrud gilberto/marcos valle classic.
mostly because bunton was trying to sound like astrud gilberto and it's just bizarre really, but to be honest it wasn't for bunton i fell in love with this one. atfc captures the vibrant madness of a samba carnival and with the chords and rhythms from the original song he transforms it into a really funky tune.
the version i heard first was atfc's dub on fatboy slim's brazilian mixcd where it was excellent and i tried endlessly to get hold of that but could only find the vocal version which works. for the vocal mix atfc uses a lot from the vocal but keeps the chorus out and only uses the first parts from the first line but treated with effect and filter to segue into the bombast.
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