i was talking to a mate about fat freddy's drop after he attended a show of theirs and were impressed by their concert. he said that it was a lot of horns and a heavy groove, the exact words were manu chao live in cubic. this got me interested and i have heard a number of their tracks and albums and like their stuff but know them for their (dub)reggae numbers.
so i went online and listened to their last live album, from 2010 and recorded in london. it was really tight and it was a sixtracker where the shortest track was ten minutes so i was quite into the groove. they played that reggae groove really well but then came the last track on the set.
this track was "shiverman" and it differed from the previous as there was no one-drop or riddim groove but a four on the floor and the bass were in a different mode as well. i started to get the feel of early 90's progressive house from the school of junior boys own and guerrilla and it sounded very much like leftfield or underworld or william orbit.
on the "dr. boondigga and the big bw" album it plays sort of in the same mode but the interesting entrancing groove goes on for longer in the beginning. the big heavy funky ska in the end pays off more as it's in a live setting, but i felt it clashed too much as i was picturing it going off into a different kind of sound explosion.
however the first twelve minutes go through such a meticulous hypnotic chugging that it's a number that would be a perfect three am number. basically it's proper trance music. love it.
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