the original is an all-time favourite track and it was a magic moment the first time i heard the song back in '99. it's an house tune for all time and a perfect set-starter with it's piano intro. falk really nailed it with the vibes and demetrius' soulful vocals on top.
so naturally this track is in my conciousness quite alot, much like stonebridge's remix of robin s or miranda's "gnocchi" to name a few. it was either on discogs or youtube i found this remix recently and i can honestly say that had i heard it only five years ago i'd wouldn't have liked it. but my mind was turned around on uk garage during this period.
i know that i didn't get uk garage except for a few tracks but i think it had to do with that i was exposed to crappy tunes. of course noone is going to like 2-step if they are introduced to it by something like shanks & bigfoot's "sweet like chocolate", but i was shown better tunes and i understood the music more.
for this version takes the original and tweaks the groove a bit and redoes the bass but keep the vibes (but here sounding more an electric piano than vibraphones). it's a good case of just translating the song into a slightly different vibe but where they still are rooted with that garage sound.
where as the original is a classic garage houser (in the style of masters at work and blaze) this is the uk sound and the breakbeat version of the that sound. ishkur states on his site that he doesn't get how the uk sound is any related to the us sound and the fact that he doesn't like the uk garage but there is a logical progression.
i am well aware that he says things as a joke or in means of provocation but it's just that modern uk garage does not sound like masters at work but that link is still there and mj cole and few others still can prove it. but in short the uk garage sound became the way it did because of natural progression where as the new york sound stayed in it's classic form.
to understand how there is a few key players and they are all americans, and there is a funny irony about the uk side of garage that prides itself of being a very british sound that even though their sound is distinctly british, all the innovations that pushed it towards the sound came from americans.
although armand van helden's influence came from england but basically without m.a.w. you wouldn't have m.k. and without m.k. you wouldn't have todd edwards who along with grant nelson (who was doing a combination of m.a.w. and m.k. stylings) would set the blueprint to original uk garage.
armand van helden is said to be the one to take the reese basslines (again, even though this is a jungle thing, it's from detroit) and the aestethics of jungle and make house out of it "inventing" speed garage or bassline house or 4x4 as it's called now.
anyone reading this might be wondering "what did any of this last bit have to do with the tune in question" and the answer is nothing, i just had to get that thing off my chest so back to the tune in mind. so yeah, when i first heard this version, accidentally by clicking the wrong thing on discogs it was the version of "make it right" that had been missing all my life.
listen here (youtube)
also there was other remixes than this that i actually heard a few years after i heard the original but back then i hated them since i thought the original was far superior. i don't know what i was thinking really since tommy musto's versions are sublime as well, both vocal and dub. but richie santana's and sal dano's efforts haven't resonated with me other than they are decent.
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