another case of something that i heard upon it's release but first it was through gabriel & dresden's remix and i didn't like that but i liked the song in general. i heard starr's original version closely after that and preferred it but when i heard about john creamer & stephane k's remix, there was no turning back. gabriel & dresden took a big risk with their remix but and there is a bit of a circuit flirt in the sound but i really think they missed the point of the song.
starr's vocal delivery which is bit dry but there is a subtle moodyness to it, even if the lyrics are supposed to be romantic in some way. the match up with gabriel & dresden's beats didn't work and i think starr played up the funky house aspect a bit too much. creamer & k does it very subtle and lets the small motif of the pads and the bassline do the work for most part. by doing this they harnessed the best parts of the original and let them be the focal points.
i was entrance by that bassline and it's interesting how they redid it where in starr's hands it was a warped murmur. when they took to it the sound is in line with the pad motif, to an extent that it becomes another layer to it. something that is now very much associated with booka shade's "mandarine girl" but this goes a bit deeper than that. because of this and the fact that it utilized a bit of a scaled down production is why most of the time i played this track i used to pitch it down. "till there was you" worked excellently with deeper house and slowing it down also increased the moody nature of the vocal but also the song at hand. brilliant.
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