bobby ewing - sunlight (king brain instrumental mix)

i found the single for "sunlight" in the crates and i bought it on the strength that it had remixes by artifical funk & dj asle, meaning i did not know of the song said prior. many of the singles i buy in the bins are promo singles and are cased in cardboard, hence they take little space. but they also include the most bang for the buck and in these neck of the woods you will/would find these singles released either by the big labels or smaller ones like swedish promotion agency/recordlabel playground music or danish label big star / iceberg, the former of which are part of caoz promotions.

big star/icebergs operation was mainly licensing club tracks for the northern european market, but ever once a while they would release things by danish dance acts. like freeloader's "pure devotion", örtz's "secret garden" & "we don't talk" and this one by someone that went under the name of bobby ewing. i have no clue on who really is behind the name but i can tell you that the song in it's original form feels derivative of plenty of other songs like madonna's "holiday" and dance nation's "sunshine" which themselves are derivative of the whispers' "the beat goes on" and daft punk's "one more time" respectively.

the single as mentioned included mixes by fellow danish act artificial funk which i know was driving the single as the dub was played a bit by a number of dj's. asle's versions go into the more sidechain & filter direction and the "sunny dub" delves a bit into the eighties influence of the original. then there is two version by king brain or dietmar andreas maier who's been making dance music since the early 90's. i decided to highlight his version as his version is the actual rip-off of the bunch, i mean in all other cases it's borrowing of ideas but this is blatant.

i listened to the remix and recognised that bounce & the sounds on the instant, it sort of sounded like dj gregory's "tropical soundclash". i love that track and think the world of it. it's quite brilliant how it uses that high-life styled guitar and keys onto this bumpy four on the floor. maier really copied the track but he did it really good and this is why i wouldn't completely deride it. the dark break that maier added with the filthy saw synth stabs works to the tracks advantage.