Wednesday 16 January 2013

rulers of the deep - the last survivor (buick project main mix)

escaping this one in many of the techno and house sets was near impossible back in '05/'06 and after a while i did grow sick of it eventually. none the less i still enjoy it and it's charm comes from the murmuring acidy bassline and the bleak vocal. on the original there was too much a groove for jason butlers dystopian story and while it's a good track, it was done right by the buick project.

so much that rulers of the deep's own update from the '09 re-release sounds more than the own project and so did the additional remixes. i wouldn't say that it's an original take of the song as it stems from the chicago-esque tradition of acid house with spoken vocals. it's supposed to be menacing and dark as opposed to the uplifting style of house with the pianos or sung vocals etc. chatterley and fanciulli's sets jason butler's vocal in center and after he does his introduction the bassline is kicked in and it's really hard to not have a body part reacting to it.

the groove is captivating and it is helped by the bass but there is a sense of trying create a hypnotic state within the track. it isn't fully implemented as they break up the groove to cause those small frenzied highlights on the dancefloor. they are done by either working this midrangy bass-fill or stripping it all down for some bars to beats, bass & the occasional pad as butler tells more in his tale of the robots and the decay of man. the result is william gibson-esque stories and aestethics together with acid house. lovely.


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