this was a track i discovered shortly after hearing the amalgamation of soundz' "eric" a few years ago. i sort of liked their drum & bass material but i thought their broken beat stuff was more interesting and quite liked their change in tempo from 160bpm to 120bpm.
while the original is a nice shuffle with prominent bongos, nice lively percussion and a driving bassline the amalgamation of soundz flip the original. they harnest the use of the flutes and pads but they bring in better drums. they tone down the more colourful percussive side to have the drum break dominate the track but they program the drums so it sounds like an actual drummer playing.
what they also did was to recontextualise the vocals and took them out of their lowkey nature where they were imbedded into the groove. harbottle & thompson elevate them and give them the treatment of more air & reverb to make them more divaesque to fit the stature of the production.
i loved what the did with this track and i think it's essentially a lush jazzstep track done at the 120bpm region and that excites me.
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