i really don't know why i bought this single, "rough enough" was never any of the songs i liked from swedish group popsie. i did like "single" and "latin lover" but the lyrics and the chorus for "rough enough" was stupid. i do know that it's something i bought for next to nothing and that the single had 8 versions, with two remixes (and edits/dubs) by redtop & jj. the latter was the more approachable pop-house remix and was decent and the former took the less vocal harder club route.
redtops remix starts with the first line of the chorus in a vocoder and then after a little while you hear an acidline emerging and squelching away. that sets the tone for track along with the rhythmic offbeat-bassline as redtop bangs in an awesomely cheesy not quite hard house but not quite trancer. the end result is basically the klubbheads sound in the late nineties but with less suck.
this remix follows in a very tried and tested formula of what to do when you have a track that you'd want to sell to a market that would never buy it in it's normal state. as little is taken from the song at hand and the rest is in the bin. it's a gamble as not everyone is going to like it and i used to think more or these kinds of revamps when i was younger. i've grown weary when it's a remix of something i like and i can hear that there are useful parts and they were slept on. however the original of this is terrible and redtop did make something decent out of it.
by the way if anyone wonders, is this the same redtop that is a frequent remixer on the scene now? yes it is.
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