i think i heard the original "mic love" back in the 90's since it was sort a small hit but i didn't recall it until i heard it on a swedish hiphop compilation that most younger heads that grew up in the 90's went and bought. goldmine was a hiphopgroup with a whole team of guys and one girl called deetah.
she was the one that managed to get a small career afterwards and i often heard that she was featured on a 2pac song. which is correct but still not, stonebridge gave her the opportunity to add a verse for his remix of pac and biggie's posthumous single "runnin'".
anyhow, that had nothing to do with this one but i bought the "mic love" 12 inch about ten years ago in a big sale and it started my fascination with the tune. mostly because of the bobby caldwell sample but it was quite nice and catchy.
the remixes for it was something i didn't care about until i saw the cd-single in a charityshop and bought it because of the fuck of it. somehow i don't get the point of buying the same song on different format but i was buying some other stuff and it was cheap.
raconteur who did two remixes and both removed the bobby caldwell sample that stonebridge & nick nice based their original and club mix around. they both lean on the r&b side but while the 'combo version' is a bit soulful, the 'box version' revolves around a stripped down beat and a talk-box.
i really like the bassline, the subtle melodic elements and of course the robot-soul. raconteur chopped up deetah's hook to only keep the first parts and had them then repeated and resang on the talkbox. it's a really good change and i like it especially since the original hook is bad. but with a little robotics it's passable.
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