Wednesday 10 April 2013

valerie etienne - misunderstanding (roger's r-senal mix)

another one of my purchases when from the time i used to trawl for any single that looked interesting and had remixes. "misunderstanding" was released during the unfortunate time when the uk had a limit to 20minutes on singles and henceforth there was the two parter system. the original was done in collaboration with ski oakenfull and he also provides a remix but that's only on vinyl.

for cd you had two excellent versions by mj cole and roger sanchez, the former did a 2-step mix for the vocal version and a rougher 4x4 take for the dub. sanchez went for soulful house and only difference between his two mixes is the less use of vocals. i found the second single in the pack first and that included roger's main mix and mj cole's dub and they've served me well over the years.

the original was never put on any of the cd-singles but i have heard it and i quite like it but i'll take roger's classy house version over it any day. very good use of the guitar from the original and i really love that bassline and the live feel of it. it's the key word about this one as most of the elements feels natural to a certain extent and while it's not completely body & soul, it does have that appeal. proper.


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