this one i discovered a little while after hearing the a hundred birds remix of either âme's "rej" or lifelike & kris menace's "discopolis" and finding out that they did their remixes as a band/group/collective. it was kind of nice and i then heard about them making their own records and that did a cover of rolando's "jaguar" and then this one.
now "black water" is one of those detroit tunes that has become like a staple and i keep hearing that melody in a few other tunes (yunno how saunderson's/inner city's "good life" & "big fun" and derrick may's "string of life" melodies keep getting sampled and replayed all the time). this however is a quite faithful rendition but with a more groove and more focus on instrumentation.
the melody is quite present on this track like it was in the original and you hear in a multitude of ways, right from the get go it's from a vocal perspective, it's then joined by vibes and strings, i believe also a guitar and in pad form. but it's there and it's backed up by lovely percussion and drums and a punchy upright bass.
there is also a second version, here called the dub which starts off with the grand string arrangement that is the coda in the main version. it then goes into the groove but leaves off the melody but keeps some some occasional vocal stabs.
i love the main mix but i found this version to be the most useful in my sets and i tend to also pitch it down from it's 133 to the lower 120 mids for a better effect. any way you choose to work the tune or it's a fantastic version, hats off to those japanese people
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