pillbox - pounding your soul

about six or seven years ago i was quite obsessed with really long dj-sets for some reason and i had found this five hour behemoth with roger sanchez. it quickly became a favourite set of mine and included a multitude of songs that i liked, songs that i've never heard of and some that was soon to be my favourites. this song lands in the latter of those categories and for a long time i really didn't know what it was called.

it was a vocal track and those by default means that they are more easier to identify but even with the help of google and some asking, i was hitting dead ends. then some years after that just typing in the lyrics found myself hearing the song and all was great in my world. truth be told i was a little lazy with the searching as i should have looked on what else roger sanchez was playing in his sets at the time or what his label was releasing. as "pounding your soul" was available through stealth recordings about six months after roger had played his set on queen's day in amsterdam.

with all that being said it's a cracking dark progressive house track, much like "salty" which i wrote about three days ago. a thick & lush groove with a really chunky bassline and a seductive vocal with echoes and all the trimmings. it is a great track on it's own without the vocal but the way it's worked is, as i said in the entry for "salty", something that i'm a sucker for. however i really emphasise the former of the latter in that last sentence because it's a bit too easy making big room progressive house like this.

take for instance josé nunez's "bilingual" which is just a sparse groove and a dirty seductive vocal. i do like this song as well but take out the vocal and it's not really interesting musically. but it doesn't matter as no one is going to care in a club enviroment that "hey this track is so dependant on that vocal, what a lazy hack". especially since something like "bilingual" is brilliant soundwise at a club, same goes from "pounding your soul" but the former sound thinner at home comparing to latter.

well recommended track.

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