Despina Vandi - Gia
Positiva Records
Catalogue Number: N/A
First impressions of this track go like this. Out on Positiva and extremely attractive
woman on the front case. Its gonna be good.
I dropped the original on my deck, queued up the needle and let her rip. A floaty Hispanic
beat flowed through my speakers and I began tapping my feet eager to sample what followed.
A lengthy yet captivating intro kept my spirits high until the breakdown dropped in.
Then the vocals kicked in and it all went wrong. Wasn’t impressed at all. Maybe because
there of a different language, maybe cuss they sound relatively cheesy, I'm not sure,
either way they were very wrong and put a big dint in my opinion of the original.
On the flip side we have the milk and sugar remix, an alias unknown to me at present.
I’m liking this one much more, the Hispanic groove is retained yet the bassline is
beefed up for a funkier feel. Far better. But wait, there’s those dreaded vocals again.
Shame because that bassline really is fantastic, deep and heavy but not in to "in your
face."
To be fair this mix I could imagine hearing out on the golden isle and id enjoy it. The
Hispanic background would blend really well with the atmosphere out there, however here
in the UK, it just doesn’t work because of the vocals.
I wasn’t to sure on how the Level K mix would work. Stripped of those devilish vocals and
this has some serious potential, as it doesn’t look to be the case its close to awful.
The Level K mix takes the milk and sugar mix up a notch. The funky b line is dropped a
notch but manages to retain a certain heaviness needed to carry the track. the speed is
good enough for an early slot in a trance track which is right up my alley. The riff from
the breakdown onwards is something you could DEFFINANTLY hear in just about any club, it
has that cross over effect, would work in your local Ritzi or your dirty underground trance
club.
But then as expected, the vocals kill it. Its not that there sang badly, there not, in
fact the vocalist is very talented... There just crap off putting vocals that do the track
no justice what so ever... Ah well... Close, so very very close, but shot down at the finish
line.
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Review by Muzik
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