Deep Dish - FlashDance
Positiva Recordings
Catalogue Number: CDTIVDJ211
Original Club Mix
Ok so what we have here is Deep Dish’s first single for 6 whole years, some of our
readers were barely out of nappies when they released the collaboration with Tracey
Thorn – The Future of the Future.
I’ve been hearing this for month’s now on Radio 1 and you know what? I've never
been given a track ID! Either I've just been unlucky and listened in at the wrong
times or the track is that huge it doesn’t need one, doh! Needless to say this sits
up there with Shapeshifters – Lola’s theme as a possible contender for biggest funky
track of the year.
We have a Dj’s wet dream in terms of mixing intro followed by the riff even your deaf
Grandma would know by now. Apparently this was inspired by “He’s a dream” from the
movie Flashdance, can’t say I've watched it so won’t comment there. Anyway, back to
the track we all know and love. Perfect vocals complimenting a riff you’d expect to
get bored of but it’s impossible to do so! I don’t know how they managed that, I
really don’t, put they have, a riff that repeats through out the track and doesn’t
get boring!
The vocals continue over three verses, something we aren’t often treated to in Dance
Tracks. Ok there shorter than say, Lola’s theme, however it all adds to variation,
makes it feel longer.
Now my only niggle? You’ll probably laugh at me for this because it is silly, its
mix out length. We aren’t talking a couple of 32 bar loops here, we are talking
minutes. Minutes of the same monogamous loop. Perfect for your show off Dj wanting
to play around but awful if you’re just listening to the track as I am right now.
Enough with nit picking, this is beautiful. Admit it, you love it, you love it like
I do, its better looking than your girlfriend and it argues less to. Sheer brilliance.
Skylark Remix
Take the Original Club mix; add a little more reverb on the riff, a deeper bass line
mimicking that riff, space out the vocals and throw in a few random samples including
what sounds like an Air Control Recording and you’ve got the Skylark mix. Sound a bit
too obvious? No chance, its just as good as the Original mix if not better. Why? Because
it takes its time and does the job perfectly. Even after 9 minutes I still felt compelled
to have a wiggle at my desk and I probably would have had a kitten not of been sat in my
lap!
I know the above review sounds short but there really isn’t much more to add, it makes
better listening and dancing material than the original because it paces itself better.
Ok it doesn’t have that more obvious in your face feel but I'm pretty certain it would go
down just as well as the Original. Defiantly my favourite of the two mixes.
Raul Rincon Remix
You know what’s odd? I’m now some 20 minutes into listening to the same riff over and
over again with the same passion filled vocals splashed over the top and I'm still not
bored, not even remotely. If that doesn’t make this a tune to remember what does?!
Raul Rincon seems a little more up tempo than the previous two mixes, a bit more jumpy
and lively. Again the vocals are spaced out which is a good thing; there’s also more
reverb and some amazing effects thrown in for good measure.
It also feels like there’s more going off in this mix to, not just with the vocal’s being
rinsed with countless effects but even the riff has gone under the knife.
Fantastic listening material, don’t think id use it out and about, not over the Skylark
mix anyway, still a damn fine track you need to get your hands on.
Meat Katie Remix
Within the first two seconds of this it’s instantly recognisable as a bloody good tune!
It’s BREAKS! Hazzah to big ass chunky breaks! If you’re expecting the kind of breaks that
gives you a massage should you own a top end Sub woofer your going to be disappointed?
Instead what we have is an intelligent track that would fit in three genera’s, Breaks,
Funky and Trance (if played early enough).
The riff seems untouched (I could be wrong) as do the vocals, not a bad thing, especially
when splashed over a beat that doesn’t sound the same as every other track in your record
box.
There isn’t really much else to say on this mix, possibly the finest of the lot depending
on your musical preference.
Overall? It may not sell as well as Shapeshifters when released later this year however
this does not take away the fact its bloody good if not better. It won’t have as much of
a 15 year old pop fan appeal which will keep it sounding fresh for months if not years
to come so essentially it could make the all time anthem status very quickly.
Get it, get it now.
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Review by Muzik
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