"paperkites" comes from the fredrik lager (freddie cruger/red astaire) & lars berger collaboration ep as "the odd couple" on cruger's own swedish brandy productions. i have it on the most excellent label compilation "current cuts vol. 1" which gathers up some of the best tracks from the labels first ten releases. there is some brilliant hiphop music on this in various shapes and forms, all from proper old school leaning to the twisted editions of the genre from the last decade.
i was blown away by how good this track when i heard the first time, to be honest i don't like the small speech in the beginning but the groove is immense. a nice light summery groove with this smooth floating bass and most of the track feels somewhat natural. cruger's production are generally a hopscotch of samples that has been twerked but despite being constructed it doesn't completely sound like it. both in the programming of the drums and the bass, there is an attention to detail and there are movement that might as well was played by a band.
the trainspotter in me does want to locate where cruger & berger grabbed their soundbites but i can only locate two and i'm not even sure they are the ones. the vocal sound like parts of terra deva's in the furry phreaks classic "soothe" but it's only fragments. the lush string sequence sounds to me like the one from the break of quincy jones' rendition of "summer in the city" but i know that it can't be that. there isn't a clean segment where long notes are playing and no drums or bass are heard.
anyhow, it's a perfect light funky summery jam for a winter day like this where the sun is shining high in the sky and if you actually step outside, it's at least 5 degrees below zero....
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