boogie pimps - somebody to love (raymond barry remix)

bought the cd-single of "somebody to love" at the time of it's release and it was in 'legendary' recordstore pitch, here in stockholm. they used to have a lot of imports and for some reason most of the ministry of sound material was australian. infact they had a whole lot of australian imports and i think it's because they used to get as much good material on a single. the australians along with the japanese but most already know about the size of them, but i do recommend dancenet singles for classic stuff.

this was a track i knew of sort of and i liked the original and the moonbotica remix but i liked it for the groove and the "fear and loathing in las vegas"-speech. the jefferson airplane sample was a bit to overused in most of the version, including the moonbotica remix that had some great acid. the australian single used some most of the remixes commissioned by ministry of sound themselves and this meant leaving out moonboticas remix.

most of the new versions left out the speech for obvious reasons as ministry of sound was pushing this single to a wide commercial market. i think i even read some review from some american dj & journalist on this single and it said something that some dj's were hesistant to play it because of the speech, which is bullshit but understandable to a certain degree.

henceforth the removal of the speech annoyed me a bit but i did really like santos' versions, dj flex & sandy wilhelm's was a bit annoying though. also it did copy the idea & bassline of daft punk's "burning", as did junior jack for "thrill me" but in a different way, but i felt that you might as well play "burning" instead of this inferior version. as far as i know raymond barry's version is the only kept it and they also took to a direction of the track that i loved.

basically it is an update on the original but with a more driving bassline and it puts all the focus on the build and groove. when it drops in the middle of the song it's for the speech and the jefferson airplane sample is used to a minimal extent and it's all treated with filters and looping. safe to say a very well made remix that i've cained heavily over the years.

for years i thought raymond barry was just some random producer as when i first read information on discogs, there was little info and only one single released. it wasn't until a few years later that i found out that it was a team of producers behind this one. they were davide & alessandro piatto, claudio rossi and gerhard potuznik, all of which who have a fair load of quality records under their belt. even a classic or two but you can dig into discogs for them.