this one i heard through dj lottie's 1998 essential mix for bbc radio 1 and for the record i didn't hear it at the time but it was a few years after when i grabbed the set as a recommendation from a friend of mine. i liked the set and it included some great house music from the time, a number of tunes that i did know and a whole lot i hadn't heard before.
that's the way i liked it when i was young and hungry for music and one track that intrigued me was near the end of the set and followed armando's excellent track "tunnel vision". i just heard tribal drums coming in and eventually this vocal sample that said "it's the sound of the drum". it sort of yelled at you in a chanting way and it commanded my attention.
initially i hated this track because i thought that the vocal sample was annoying and i didn't care for it for many years. i wasn't kind of reluctant towards that kind of darker progressive tribal house and i had issues with some vocals that was preachy. nowadays i don't care about this particular one but i still have issues with the vocal samples in eddie amador's "house music" (and ron carroll's "the prayer" by default) and cevin fisher's "the way we used to do it".
that normally is a segway for me to talk out of my arse about that but i'll refrain myself this time. as i got into darker progressive house i saw this track in a new light and liked the structure of the track. the dynamics and different regions lends itself to work with a plethora of tracks and especially in the grayarea between progressive house and trance.
the vocal talks about drums and while it doesn't have as much vivacious drums you would expect, it does have a really powerful groove. along with the stabbing bassline, that is worked instead of a groovier one as the percussion take up a lot of the lower regions, it's a great tool at hand. oh and i love those sinister pads that plays in the breaks.
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