finding this eight tracker single a few years ago with robin stone's name on it was interesting and especially as the names on the credits include david morales and junior vasquez. it also says allen george and fred mcfarlane and is more known as the second half of the other dfa, as in fall out records. i didn't know about this song but i did know it was from 1993 and it definantly was going sound garage-y and have robin's immense vocals gracing the track.
the influence of stonebridge's rerub of "show me love" creeps up in the original "i want to thank you" as you hear that korg m1 organ patch and those shuffling beats. on morales' mixes however that organ sound is removed and is replaced with that classic def mix piano vibe. however there is also some organs in the second half of the remix but it's definantly not the korg sound as they sound rave-ier.
morales also loads up the track with drums and percussion and as the break approaches they get a solo but he also did a version where he focused on them completely. to a certain degree the "africa" version is a tool or a reprise but i like it as an own entity as it's just drums & percussion. for someone like morales that used to play around with his tracks and remixes to make the djmixes more interesting, it wouldn't surprise me if he would play the dub and the africa tool and then head into the main mix.
some part of me think it's stupid to focus on something tracky like a percussive reprise of a song but when it's done as good as this, i repress those thoughts.
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