Rounding up the best of the week-end in one convenient post
Coming off the heals the simultaneously ambitious and underwhelming "CrazyGhettoZouk," the BeatMaker is win back his well earned trust. Both the listen and the download are recommended.
Easily overlooked during a decade full of wrath wreaked by Hughes and Reagan is the global love-affair with soft-rock that took place. The Spanish speaking world fawned over Soda Stereo. Brazil had tLegião Urbana. The trend, however, was not limited by language or geography. A prominent example can even be found in the Fertile Crescent in the form of an Israeli band called Machina. But Portugal, it seems to the author - born in the year 1990 - was unamused. Musica pimba is neither fado nor the Great Lusophone Songbook. But unencumbered by style restrictions, the vulgar, rural style of popular folk music seems to have struck a note, in that it chose to utilize the language of the people.
Dadifox is no a stranger to remixing songs in a kuduro style. Alas, the song below is different. In spite of the accordion, the song's source material is not Cabo Verdean. Instead, the point of origin remains in the Old World. Nonetheless, the PDDG beat-maker is wildly successful as he sets the stage for a cultural amalgamation. Among other pieces of percussion, digital snares and djembes are brought out in full force. Bass is punishingly heavy. In using pimba staple and Hall of Fame mustache wearer, Quim Barreiros, vocals are left to the interludes while the accordion and horns are sampled and glitched to taste.
Never behind the curve, Dadifox remains, in the author's opinion, criminally underappreciated. The free download, though, is a sturdy step in remedying the status quo.
Half-way through the following song, American listeners may feel an impulse. Resist the urge. Do not reach for the Cracker Jacks. Harry Carey will not be singing today.
But the organ is rather glorious indeed.
What follows is a remix. Interestingly, the source the same as the manipulator as Luanda's Dj Du Marcel revisits a 2014 track by the same title; ultimately breathes new life into an already formidable song. Cornerstone elements of the original remain - primarily organ and piano - but the skeleton is altogether different. At first, even the beat seems to sound off-kilter. Recognizable as a foundation to any good kuduro, the momentum us terribly lethargic. But the truth quickly reveals itself. On a single drum kit, the good Dj is already working polyrhythms which are eventually elaborated by whistles, vocals, cowbell, and scraper among others. A once four to the bass turns into a heavy funk groove.
Words cannot do ultimately do the song any justice; as opposed to repeated listens. A download is available as well.
What follows is as close to ambient footwork track as the author has heard over the course of a two-year awareness of the style.
Released just a day ago, neither DJ Acey nor Breezy can be accused of false advertising. While still a dance track in the strictest of terms, the heavy stoner vibes cannot be denied. What might otherwise be used as a section for rotating dancers becomes extended listening portion. Still, succinct ghetto house samples are present. Of greater intrigue, though, the literal depth added by the sound of...a soda can? At any rate, each of the synths rest on the precipice of incurring the wrath of some distant, celestial monolith. Moreover, the bass cannot do much more than massage the temples, Dave. All sorts of snares, claps, and kicks are heard. Still, nothing surpasses the tight, break-beat glory of the hi-hat portions.
But perhaps the biggest nod to the smoking section is the option to partake in a .wav download. Spark up and enjoy.
- J.N.
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