this was certainly a cratedig buy and i heard "hoping" and a few other tracks prior to buying the "easy love" album so i knew what i was purchasing. basically the story of louie austen is, if anyone don't know, an austrian crooner who started working with several dancemusic producers and put his voice to records to house and techno records.
his first release was "consequences" and came out in '99 on patrick pulsinger and erdem tunakan's cheap records. the schtick for that one was sort of sinatra meets amon tobin and the result was matthew herbert on acid. produced by mario neugebauer it was twisted jazz, dubhop and weirder electronic music but with an austrian gentlemen singing on top of some of the tracks.
the rules were changed for the format once "hoping" came about a few changes and the project was more directed towards the houseier. austen also sang more substantially and pulsinger came into play in terms of production. also the albums were now released on fellow austrian label kitty-yo but that's not really interesting though.
this track comes from the third album "easy love" and best way of describing it is louie austen singing very in a melancholic way on top of dubby bossanovaflavoured house. it was one the tracks that attracted me the most when i listened through the whole album. it liked the element of dub and the louie singing in the first half of the song. when austen enters the track it is just him, the beat and that bassline and it makes an impact. you hear more musical elements as the track progresses including a rhodes that gets a solo halfway into the song.
echoes of his vocals and reverbed out sounds in true dub fashion are heavy in the tail end of the song and it was this moment that made me want to do an entry on this song. i've mentioned that i listen to a lot of tracks when i'm out walking and i'm really grabbed by certain elements and his voice was the first but the dub echoes was the second one. love it.
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