this was part of a crate dig at one of stockholms second hand stores and i bought the album "kinda kinky" on the strength of some other tracks i'd heard from him. the style that alex gimeno (ursula 1000) works on his tracks remind me a bit of kraak and smaak & skeewiff but on a different slant.
the name of the game is sort of big beat with a little less obvious drums but it keeps the agenda of sampled grooves and drumbreaks. for someone like me that love this stuff it's an album chockful of great tunes and i could highlight any track off it. it has it's dancefloor numbers and some midtempo groovers and i've chosen one of the latter.
the title alone is one of the best parts (there are a few other good ones on the album) but it's sort of misleading as gimeno is employing arabic samples. i can't say where their taken from as i have no clue and the intarwebs isn't giving me any help. it's a headknod groove that could with some choice working fit in balearic type sets.
it rocks this oud for the first half of the song where it's accompanying a mellow tribal groove and this string fill that is lovely. it breaks down and goes into two different sampled arabic grooves with one being very operatic and the other one being something you'd hear in an folk song.
i'm generally a sucker for anything that uses arabic or middleeastern samples in a good way and i love how this one turned out.
buy here (junodownload)
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