humate - breed (summer of '89 remix)

for this one i was given a heads up when it was released and even then people said that don't bother with the original, head straight for the acidy summer of '89 remix. the part about it including a whole load of acid almost sealed the deal for me but it having a sort of a late 80's housey throwback sound also meant a lot. especially as i was quite into the hugg & pepp remix of "in and out". which basically did the same thing but was more balls deep into the nostalgic factor, to put it bluntly.

the original isn't by any means a bad track and infact listening to it now i can hear it's appeal and the way the distorted techno house sound worked well with the vocal. it was sort of a mix between the humate's own gee shock remix of his '00 single "choose life" and "vivid", the prior humate single. i still favour the summer of '89 remix of it over the original and part of why it works is that doesn't sound like a complete throwback track.

when this track was released i tried to used words like chicago and sound of trax or dj international and the likes when i was describing this track. on one occasion i was given a swift reprimand from my friend alon klein in that this doesn't sound like chicago at all and if anything it's more mancunian. even then it's done through another filter of modern aestethics and production techniques that throws the argument of "chicago" or manchester out of the window.

i do however associate it with summer and not because it says so in the title but because it was included into my soundtrack of the summers of '05 and '06. that acidy bassline and groove was such a delight to listen to on warm summer days and you felt every motion of the phasing effects that was used. i loved those warm pads that compilemented the acid wiggle and the lethargic vocal.

after every start of the listen i did wait for the moment where the resonance of the acid increased as it was going into this small breakdown. after the that small drop there is a section where the it all goes haywire in all the right ways. the percussion sounds more wilder, the vocal is chopped up and the resonance of the acid is increased even more.

to be fair this follows suit of the original which is also built in a similar way but the difference is the execution and the sound. instead of wibbly acid you hear distorted sounds, affected to lfo, wobbling around. then when it's had that moment it goes back into the groove that you heard in the first half of the track until it fades down and ends. lovely track.

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