johan claesson - hooliganz on acid (d&a remix)

mate of mine had this "mixcd" from the swedish nrj extravadance series and on it were a couple of good tunes like the alliance remix of q project's "champion sound", the jan driver remix of faithless' "bring my family back", system f's "out of the blue" and kayestone's remix of pinocchio's "hypnotized". as the second to last track there was this bizarre track which was swedish producer d&a's remix of "hooliganz on acid" by swedish producer johan claesson aka bobba fat.

it had these sweeping synth lines and suspense building string parts that launched into more frenetic synthlines and i was balls deep into epic trance and loved the tune. the thing was that it also had a vocal sample with these football hooligans, hence the name "hooliganz on acid". i had never seen the film "i.d." so i didn't know that claesson had sampled them from there or what they actually said.

never the less, the version on the cd was an edit and after a couple of years of forgetting of the song i remembered it when i was in discussion with someone else about those cd's. there was a level of cheese associated with them as they weren't well mixed or structured and the fact it was spearheaded by nrj, it wasn't exactly ministry of sound or renaissance. it led me to track down the song again and i had the edit but i was after the full monty. found out that was released on telica but under claesson's real name than the moniker bobba fat, but it lacked those vocal samples.

something tells me it was out of sample clearance as paul gaarn aka pablo gargano's remix also lacked them. even though i miss them as they were the hook that brought me into the track, the synthline is the sustaining factor. what made wonder then about the track was why the original was never pressed up as the telica release only featured remixes. a thought occured was that the original wasn't good enough or the likes but after hearing a while ago, it sort of the case. it isn't actually awful but take away the vocals and you have a fairly anonymous acid trancer.

daniel ellenson aka d&a's remix doesn't use a lot from the original and works as an own entity. the acidlines are stripped away from the track and the melodies and sounds all come from his own machines and synthesizers. this doesn't remove anything from it and it's a solid piece of epic trance.

listen here (webpage)