when i was revisiting my old minidisc mixtapes i heard this track that was russian act ppk's remix of fellow russian singer marina khlebnikova's "печаль моя" ("my sorrow"). it was a track that i heard a year after i'd heard ppk's massive hit "resurection" and their album "formation" back in 2002. my friend turned me onto the album and he was into some of the tracks and after i'd heard listened to the whole thing i was hooked on to one track called "мне нужен ритм 2001" ("i need rhythm 2001")
it was catchy and featured this repetitious hook in russian sung by vera kafitina and at one instance i sang the thing while in physics class. it caught the attention of a friend of mine who spoke russian and he asked "why do you need this rhythm?". i already had a grasp of the translation of that lyric but i didn't know the other ones but he kindly translated after he listened to it. they were "i need rhythm" (of course), "i want to be with you" and "take me with you".
the 2001 version of "мне нужен ритм" on "formation" was a remix and it probably made to fit with the other tracks of the album which was a collection of previously released singles and a few new tracks. the original which i heard as well by digging up the mp3 on p2p at the time is a decent but trite commercial not-quite-house-but-not-quite-trancer. ppk did a serious update on it and redid everything and the endresult is a synthheavy epic trancer.
what polyakov and pimenov also did was to fit the track with a proper groove and a nice bassline, it's a variation on the standard offbeat trance bassline but has some swing to it. the treatment of vera's vocals and it's progression of the track is big plus for it and the small chordchange that happens three quarters in is really nice. with the synths there is a whole wall of melodies and sounds blasting through the five minutes it plays out. my favourite is the squelchy one that plays it low the first half of the track but goes up in pitch and resonance after the breakdown and get's somewhat of a solospot on the outro.
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