the guzalos - uno (jesus pablo remix)

this one i discovered quite recently on radio when miriam pemberton opened up her set with this track. i remember this intro with just some bass & a piano and along with that a familiar vocal sample.

i was quite intrigued by the track and quite like it's sparse groove and darker bassline. it's quite melodic and a great break with the rising piano twinkles and above all of that is the ever present vocal sample. i found out what the track was on the intarwebs and had never heard of guzalos or jesus pablo.

but i like this piece of music and while the original isn't anything special, the remix by jesus pablo and tino camillo's remix were quite nice. the latter version smooths out the original and keeps it deeper and is also worth buying.

buy here (junodownload)
buy here (junodownload)

but about that vocal sample, it racked my head on where it was from and later i figured out that it's from a classic; being ce ce peniston's "finally". this song has crept up to me a lot in recent time. i think i heard it on radio a few times the last weeks or so and then i got linked to remake by [re:jazz]

and i have to say i quite liked that version as it was quite classy and ranked among the best renditions i've heard from the project. it became a jazz standard thing and while the vocalist isn't that good, the instrumentation is. i quite liked that it took some from the original intro but instead of a piano intro, it's the upright bass that plays the melody.

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but yeah "finally" is one of those tunes that i loved from the first listen and while it's quite overplayed now it's always interesting to find all these versions of the song. it's been sampled a few times but it's been remade and remixed a lot over the years. i think the two versions most known is the original morales version and eric kupper's version for the '97 re-release.

but i found out that morales did more than one version in his original set of mixes, i'd always been under the impression that he did the choice version and his dub and that was that. but discogs revelead that morales did a few other version and i got to hear the journey mix.

and it's just incredible. a lovely near instrumental that is driven by string ostinato in the first couple of minutes. it then breaks down to what i think is some vibes and then just as peniston's ad lib come in, the strings and pianos come in full force. it also some further synth action in the end half of the track and i quite like that as well.

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yeah it's quite apparent that "finally" isn't going to go away any way soon but i know i'll be on the lookout for a copy of the journey mix because i have to have that.