this one is from lemon jelly's incredible "lost horizons" album, an album that is known for three things. 1) the not quite digipak cardboard casing is larger than the regular album 2) it's really stylish artwork 3) it's the album the most wonderfully insane song on the planet, being "nice weather for ducks".
even though i few all music like something i could dj with, i know that this was made as an album and follows a great structure and the tracks are all connected with eachother. "return to patagonia" is followed and succeeded by "nice weather for ducks" and "ramblin' man" which both are in the same melodic stylings but this one is a different style. it is also along with ducks, the tracks that could fit into any 125-135 bpm type set and henceforth are dancefloor numbers.
infact "return to patagonia" reminds me a lot of chaser's "life in loisiada", which is amongst of the first tracks i wrote about in this incarnation of the blog. i am however not saying it's a ripoff in anyway since it's only the first half of "life in loisiada" that has the similarities and it's mainly because of the beat. chances are that both have sampled something that i have no clue about. that first half of "life in loisiada" is the best since the bassline has a portamento that is a little to crazy for the tune itself.
anyhow about this song then and to describe it in a word it would be a "builder", that's a dj term for those tracks that relentlessly builds without peaking. sure this track has that crazy part in the middle where they flip some samples and sounds but the track gains layer after layer in a great manner. the jazz groove that lemon jelly has used for the track's foundation holds such great tension.
when it's all finished, 9minutes have gone and you ushered off with the final echoes of the grooves reverb trail and raw beats and then the cd plays the duck song. masterfully done.
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