peshay - vocal tune

this one is quite a classic and i love it for a multitude of reasons but the main one is because how it samples india's vocals from river ocean's classic "love & happiness (yemaya y ochùn)". the other reason is how mental the breakbeats are programmed and i love how it uses four or five elements and does so much with it. i think the point of the single from this track was from to have a distinct vocal track and a piano track in which both were sampled off other records but twisted around.

"vocal tune" starts with one of the lines from the breakdown of "love & happiness" where india sings "i'm singing to you" and "i wanna let the world know" which sets the topic at hand. it's backed up with a rhodes stab and this really long tenseful string sound. the same sound is heard through out the track and is itself a classic element within deeper house, techno and jungle.

it's no real jungle tune without subby bass hits and once the effected cold sweat drums hit you hear the bass punch in. the drums is quite frantic but in the first third they are quite stable in it's chaos but midway into the song peshay unleashes more drums and there isn't any stability and on a glance it's just scattered kicks, snares, hats and cymbals.

the drop unleashes the full vocal from india and i would say that it's a calm before the storm and something to contrast the continuing of the chaotic drumprogramming. but with my explanation you would think it's crazy and hard to mix this but it's not even though i tend to use it from the drop as an intro as it's a great way of playing the track in a set.

listen here (youtube)