first time i heard about joy denalane was a few years ago when one of the blogs i was reading at the time had noticed that she's done a version raekwon's classic "heaven & hell". her rendition also featured him doing a rap and i really liked how her version turned out. however i had heard of her prior as she was the singer on tiefschwarz's classic "music" but i didn't know that she was the vocalist on it.
she's a great soul singer and have spent most of her time trying do it in her native country of germany which also includes singing in german. my opinion is that i like the effort but i'll take her english songs over her german songs any day. for her latest album she originally put it out in german but released an english version the following year. the album's content is soul and r&b with a throwback slant using some samples but also with a whole lot of played material.
"body rock" is a b-side to the curtis mayfield-sampling "nie wieder, nie mehr", one of the german singles that was later redone as "should have never" with bilal instead of julian williams. "body rock" isn't a groundbreaking song by any means as it's uptempo danceable beats and the lyrical topic is about going out to the club and dancing.
it is set to a good musical background though that is part modern r&b but also has traits of late 80's/early 90's dance music. can't help to think if usher's polow da don produced "love in this club" was an inspiration or if it is something else that the cues has been taken for. reason being because the pads and sound that is accompanied with the programmed breakbeat is something that could have been pulled from any epic trancer released on armada or the likes.
there is a reason why this is set as a b-side as the beats and mode that she is pervading with the current album(s) are more in a different direction but i have to say that i liked this more than the a-side.
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