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David Holmes - Don't Die Just Yet

Label:
Catalog#:
GOLCD 6
Format:
CD, Maxi-Single, CD2
Country:
UK
Released:
1997
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Downtempo

Tracklist

1   Don't Die Just Yet (Album Version) 6:37
2   Don't Die Just Yet (Max 404 Optimystic Disco Dub) 9:08
    Remix - max 404
3   Don't Die Just Yet (La Funk Mob Mix) 6:07
    Remix - La Funk Mob

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Rated 4/5
Review by scoundrel Apr 21, 2009
On David Holmes' second disc of _Don't Die Just Yet_ mixes, he offers the track up to the more electronic oriented. Max 404, for his "Optimystic Disco Dub," places the track within a solid 4/4 beat, letting the bass and some atmospheric segments wobble over top. Oddly, though, the track seems to tread water for its running time, Le Funk Mob, on the other hand, pump up the dreamy beats and inject a female vocal sample to help the track drift outwards.
Rated 5/5
Review by Babylon_Timewarp Jul 06, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
Wonderful electronic wizardry based on a score by Serge Gainsbourg.
it just sounds like very accomplished acoustic guitar background melodies expertly ported over to a synthesiser.

Funk mob's remix is the best, original score by Serge Gainsbourg is from Serge's most wonderfully written track called cargo culte , the background is just pleasant guitar strumming in a very nice tune over which he summoned the most wonderful bit of poetry about his love for his lost wife who left him because he was childish and pestered her as his main form of attention seeking and communication , ( he was immature or into his 40s).

If you want a translation of the cargo cult lyrics, it's basically talking about indigenous tribesman of Papua New Guinea waving their spears at passing airplanes and things washing up against the Coral of the Guinean coast.

David Holmes expertly uses the background melodies and the guitar strumming from cargo cult and transforms it very tastefully into synthesiser wizardry la Funk mob is a good mix with a luscious bit of trombone over the top.