this one was discovered through juno and the reason i checked it out was for it's stupid name but i saw that robert babicz had done a remix. this combination intrigued me since it's quite well known that robert babicz aka rob acid put his tb303 in storage, or at least just put away, since '06 or so.
he'd do an a track or two with some serious acid tweaking but his output mostly lacked that resonant acid wiggle. now the original is the second track acid track that heller has done for bedrock and the first one was decent at best. this is better but it rides on a gimmick.
fact is that the original is heller's take on phuture's "acid trax", it kicks along the same and the riff is near identical. unlike "acid trax" that is that groove for twelve minutes, this goes into a kevin saunderson flirt in the middle and adds a few more ideas in. however for heller's "raw mix", the modus operandi is like the track it's covering.
babicz version is a fuller version of heller's track and it works the riff initially more like a bassline. it then breaks out the higher frequencies in sections but you understand by the first three minutes that babicz isn't going to join heller and remake "acid trax" in that fashion. probably because babicz already done his grand opus named "acid!" as his moniker origin back in 1995.
instead babicz works the groove and i fail to see how anyone can listen to this and not move their butt. every idea that heller used in his original is implemented better in babicz version. the kevin saunderson flirting (that's a nicer term for using the inner city "big fun" stab soun) is worked much more naturally.
the slight moody melodics is retranslated into the small breakdown where it's a nice contrast to the groove pounding away in the back. babicz's version is named "robert babicz smiling mix", and i'm smiling as well with this wonderful piece of house.
buy here (junodownload)
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