jamelia featuring beenie man - money (capital t club mix)

when i look for cd-singles in bargain bins and second hand stores i tend to have an eye on pop songs as well as you can find good remixes not available elsewhere. usually i was on the look out for straight up house versions and used to care less about other remixes but after a while my focus shifted.

on the r&b singles i started to look for the garage versions & hiphop mixes and on the american singles that meant new york/new jersey garage but on the uk singles that meant uk garage, 2-step and later on grime rerubs.

but i don't buy any pop single just for the fun of it... actually that's not true. when i had more storage space i would but then with less and less space it became songs i do like in it's original form or a remixer i know turns out quality. in this case i did like the original version and found beenie man's part to be entertaining as he tries to be operatic when mimicking the hook.

this single included the radio edit, an slower r&b mix by colin emmanuel who also produced the original and two remixes smokin' beats and capital t. both version are edited down on the single which in terms of cin rules is normal except for the full versions would have easily gotten in under 20minutes. i know that it was more of a case of radio edits on the singles so any dj wanting to play it had to buy the vinyls.

anyhow smokin' beats does a house version and this would have been the version i'd gone gaga over but i bought this single after i started getting into garage so it's on the capital t remix i went nuts over. trevor davy (aka capital t and rugged & tough productions) did a bouncy but driving 2-step version and from the initial drum hits and teasing arpeggio i was in love.

the bassline is deep but almost wavey-like at times as the sinewaves are bent when they hit in the lower regions. the drums aren't really smacking hard but they deliver well and it's a quite shuffling and skipping pattern that reflect in the bassline.

the usual problems with timestretched vocals is that if the vocal is delivered too fast it will amplify itself once you start to mess with it and in this case it works out perfect. since the flow from both jamelia and beenie man is delivered quite slow and therefore it isn't that noticeable in the sped up tempo.

the end result is a really good remix of a really good original. well recommended.

listen here (youtube)