2. Original Mix
3. Blapps Posse Remix
4. Blapps Posse Instrumental
Hey 2014, '88 called - they want their frequency back!!
Well, too bad! They ain’t getting it anytime soon because with ‘The Sound’, those incorrigible, irrepressible Freestylers have performed an extreme dawn-of-house-music hijack!
Having already locked down an ironclad club conqueror with January’s drum&bass-fest 'Falling', Aston Harvey & Matt Cantor are back to the frontlines in the blink of an eye. Joining the ranks for this ’88 channeling ride is none other than the legendary Acid housemaster himself, Fast Eddie, who fires up with 'The Sound' with his infectious microphone ministrations.
With its acid turning, burning and generally thundering (pushing those PH levels through the roof), the Original Mix of ‘The Sound’ has Freestylers firing the late Eighties sound through the 2014 prism. With future-shocking M1 piano lines, super-hard claps, 808 drum rolls and more tweakin’, peakin’, speaker-freakin’ 303 than is conventionally healthy, they prep the stage for Fast Eddie. With the hip-house master in full lyrical flow, collectively they pull off the one big sonic Jack-attack!
Reverends of Rave and Mad Masters of break-core, respected early 90’s outfit Blapps Posse (AKA the ‘Stylers own Aston Harvey & Jason Carter from Ninja Tunes’ Mad Doctor X & London Funk) serve the first of the mixes.
Less throwback/all throw-down, they fast-forward (or rewind depending on how you look at it) ‘The Sound’ to '92. Sweeping, chest bursting rave chords, subby bass, MC vox drops (sampling their own underground classic ‘Bus' It - Its Time To Get Bzy’) and the filthiest, dirtiest, wickedest breaks heard in years all conspire across a pair of killer mixes.
Getting every bit as much into the spirit, Sweden’s Zoo Brazil drops a classically themed deep house groove under ‘The Sound’. Keeping the acid on a slow rolling churn, (think Mr. Fingers ‘Washing Machine cut, kitted and retrofitted with 2014 technology & techniques), know you’ve never heard something so deep sound quite so uplifting!
Dimitri Kechagias review: One of the most successful and happening record label at Black Hole recordings family is the brilliant Rub A Duck that focuses on what we widely term define as Bass music. One of the biggest success story for the label was to sign the legendary The Freestylers for the album The Coming Storm. One of the hottest tracks on this inspirational album is The Sound featuring the superb Fast Eddie. The track is paying homage to the acid house of the early 90's when the revolution started and young people particularly in Europe and countries like UK or The Netherlands and Belgium got the future of their music in their own hands and they start to produce what we now call as acid house. The Sound is an excellent track that carries that romanticism and nostalgia for those unforgettable years. It sound dirty, sleazy, underground and hypnotic with Fast Eddie on vocal duties who sounds very 80s. Its actually very cool that recreate that MC style vocals rather than sampling them from an older record. On remix responsibilities is the beloved producer Zoo Brazil. We loved his album and mix compilations on Magik Muzik and now the uber talented Swedish magician delivers his deep tech house alternative percussion with great drum programming, deep basslines and acid overtones to keep it hypnotic. The fantastic old school vocals are present as well and will definitely make you feel like being in the 90's. The remix package is now complete with the funky breaks early 90's rave infused Blapps Posse remix. Their version is so energetic and powerful with heavy acid overtones, chunky beats and vavooming basslines combined with 4 to 4 sequences and old school piano chords. Let's remind ourselves how was music before the coming of harder sounds and big drops! Love IT
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