randy gardell - miss frisky lady

i discovered netlabel bevlar a long time ago but didn't care about it at first since i then had a computer with a smaller harddrive and a slower internet connection. when i rediscovered the label it was when i heard about özgür can & cryo's "bloody mary".

this was still when netlabels was a term for the recordlabels who put up all their music online for free, hosted on archive.org. when platforms such as beatport and junodownload came to operate better, the netlabels slowly became limited again to the ambient music and stuff you wouldn't make a dime out of on itunes.

bevlar was a label that released quality material and i was kind of pissed that i didn't bother prior to it but i am still supporting a load of the tracks that they released. because they gave out their music and didn't make a single cent out of it, you could sample huge chunks of music wholesale and there wouldn't be a problem. then again nowadays you have labels that sell their things on juno and other platforms that sample wholesale and everyone seems to get away with it.

"miss frisky lady" comes courtesy of rasmus gardell, known more as rasmus on bolshi records, under the moniker of randy gardell. it was released on the sublabel bevlar user that was strictly for club music and is a banging house track with prominent tribal drums.

the reason i talked about wholesale samples is because it's built around two bars of kool & the gang's "fresh". unlike "hollywood" which was gardells first outing on the bevlar label where he took the whole melodic hook of boney m's "ma baker", this uses a vocal part and isn't from the chorus. it is taken from the chorus and works incredibly well the way it's looped around.

the track is repetitious but gardell uses filters, drops and bridges to make it interesting, he adds a vocodered part for when the sample is filtered down for a small drop. as it's 130 something bpm it is more suitable for a banging techno set but it does work with house music when it's pitched down or more funky progressive house. it's playful arrangement lends itself to being creative on the decks and you can get in from the top or midway in.

i love this track and even though i fucked up many times when working it in sets, i do keep on supporting it.

download here (archive.org)