losoul - open door

certain pieces of music are built on repetition and in certain type of minimalism there is an idea of how much you can push it. with certain dance music historians they have written about what dj's such as ron hardy used to do with the best sections of the tracks he was playing. the result would be a groove that is locked in for a really long time and but the crowd was feeling as tension was building. of course given with what type of sounds are coming from that groove.

"open door" proves this really well as it's one groove for eleven minutes or so and it's nothing short of awesome. with that being said, it is not actually the sound of a loop for that timespan as that is just stupid. the core is one disco-loop that is being filtered in and out along with a saxophone blare on the four. the sax sound along with the bassline always made me think that peter kremeier might have sampled a jazz loop.

however after hearing other remixes that used the groove in an unfiltered fashion i would have to say that it is a disco or funk loop but i have no slightest idea on what it is sampled. a part of me is bothered by it but the rest of me don't care a single bit about that. all that matters is that groove and the way it goes up and down and how the other elements that are brought on nicely to help in the role of building and releasing tension

part of why i like this is the reason most people like something like armand van helden's "flowerz" or kenny dixon jr. "i can kick this feeling when it hits". armand van helden says it best in the 2001 documentary "pump up the volume": "it's all about that groove. and what that groove does, makes everything else secondary". with most music historians heads, they would stem the idea behind this to james brown and the funk.

with regards to dancemusic as brown would have his band play a groove for like ten minutes, break it for a bridge or sorts and then go back into it. just listen to his live records or even the full length versions of the songs that were actually funk jams and not songs. case in point the fourteen minute version of "talkin' loud and sayin' nothing" or from parliament funkadelic where "give up the funk" becomes a fifteen minute song on stage.

it's all about the groove, don't fuck it up and i will not fuck you up. luckily losoul does a brilliant job so he is safe. not that i would ever do anything to hurt him nor does a threat like "i will not fuck you up" scare anyone. especially from someone motherfucker writing about music in a blog that no one read anyways.

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note: for the digital release playhouse mixed up the titles for this release so the 19minute track is "ooooooo" and nothing else.