i bought the cd-single for the basement jaxx remixes of "4 my people" a little while after it was released and for reasons i don't know. because it wasn't a song i liked, original or remix, even though i had danced to it in various partys and gettogethers because it had a good rhythm and i generally like anything basement jaxx. but it wasn't something that i had to have and i know i bought it full price and not from the bargainbin or the secondhand stores.
fastforward about five or six years and then i started to like the main version but i also listened to the whole single and the versions that caught my ear was the two dubs. note i'm not saying that as if i didn't like elliott as an emcee, i think the world of her as a producer, artist, lyricist and emcee but this wasn't her best song from the getgo. anyhow the two dubs included was a techy acid dub that clocks in at ten and a half minutes and is a track to be played at two am.
the second dub was this one which is more uk garage than the rowdy house of basement jaxx and it's brilliant. from the start with some tight drums and a looped up segment of missy saying "for", where it then drops into the call out in the intro from the original. the bass goes in when it kicks in again and you hear a simplified version of the bassline but with more punch and depth. along with it is some rhythmical tones that you would hear in a wookie production but with less atonality. vocal samples from the song is also used but sporadically and it's a few key lines that fit the track.
great remix and it pains me that it took me over ten years to understand it's brilliance but as i have written before, yunno i didn't get garage before and i don't want to constantly write it. i am already quite repeating myself as i tend to write the same intro, the same lyrical meat and then some bullshit disguised as a review or something.
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