following being interested in ron trent and chez damier's catalogue a few years ago i came on to this one after listening to the all the other classics. it certainly struck a chord with me and i ended up bumming it many sets at the time as it was too good to not be played. i did like the original mixes from cajmere and a few of the other versions such as carl craig's dub and dj sneak's remixes.
it's a different rendition from the package and along with deep dish's remixes the song was taken out the mid 90's chicago-esque setting. i didn't really like deep dish's version because it's standard progressive house and further more they produced much better material at the time of this release. chez damier & ron trent saw that there was a soulful ballad hiding within cajmere's jacking beats and with a reshaping and refocusing of the vocal it could be executed.
one of the many words that has been used to describe this remix is classy and i have to agree but it's also a textbook example of taking a track and making it into a song. cajmere's original production isn't completely a track but i think it has that rawness that it makes it almost strictly for the feet where as this is also for the ears. i do think the piano in the original is great but the keyboard work here takes it to a different level and the relationship with the bassline is brilliant as well.
the last minute or so of the song holds such a high class that i don't want it to end and when i used to play the dub i would just loop sections of this to make it last longer. love it.
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