this was a track i discovered through deep dish's second global underground mixcompilation, an effort that i think was nice but prefered the afterhours mixes over the main mixes in general. dubfire's disc also included his and sharam's own remix of elisa's "come to me", but i don't rate that high over this one.
i eventually bought elisa's album for some reasons and heard the
original version of time and i think it was different to hear it the first time. "time" is quite different song, even in context of the album which is very much adult contemporary pop/rock music. it uses gritty tr-909 drum sounds and tinnitus-like sinewaves and elisa puts her own vocals in affect when she pans & layers sections and phases some sections. the end result is sort of if jamie lidell would have taken on fischerspooner's "emerge".
planet funk's revisioning of the track takes the tempo down a smidge and switches the distorted tr-909 breakbeat for a four on the floor. the ideas from the original are sort of in the back mind in the remix but the groove is more important than the song. the bassline which was more of a minor sonic rumble in the original is the main course.
alex neri and his mates rides the groove for the first half of the song with elisa's somewhat murked vocals on top but halfway in the track changes shape. the vocal is used in accents and there is a small tease of what is going to happen in the drop. airy keyboard are prevalent and it's in the shape of long sweeping sounds to brighten up the atmosphere but along with it is smaller lighter sounds. they even managed to work in elisa's own keyboard/tinnitus-sounds and it forms another nice layer in the cloud of sounds.
basically what we have here is a great remix of a great song.
buy here (7digital)
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