Freaks - The Creeps (You're Giving Me)

This truly is an atrocious re-make, using each and everyone of the summer of 2007 Ibiffa's production clichés. To its credit it does makes the average output of Eric Prydz and Fedde LeGrande sound like inspired, cutting edge dance music.
How Solomon and Harris green lighted this to be released under the Freaks name is quite mind boggling, really.

What is the world coming to? The Freaks have a track featured on Hed Kandi, Ministry of Sound Summer 2007, Club Anthems etc etc (Commercial pap basically is what I'm getting at)
When I first heard this one being played on some commercial radio station my first reaction was "Oh my God, some cheeky git has just totally ripped off the bassline from 'The Creeps' and put some typical, rubbish charty dance vocals over the top"
I was so shocked to find out that the track WAS actually a Freaks track that I spat out my cup of typhoo!
To be fair though, Justin and Luke are legends and have put out such a high quality slew of tracks and remixes, that I hope they get a decent pay check for this one!

This is indeed the best selling 12" for Gigolo this year . It is a dancefloor-filler over here in germany , but the only side that gets played is of course the Steve Bug remix . This mff/classic stuff is loved by critics and the "few" , but the dancefloor screams for simplicity and strong beats , which are delivered here by Steve Bug in superb quality . Loads of people herald this as his best remix to date !!! Very strong composition and one of the better trax from the MFF album .

Though DJ Hell’s label Gigolo has tarnished its previously glowing reputation with some decidedly off key recent releases, Freak’s electrofunk anthem The Creeps could single handedly restore its reputation.

Catchy, simple and devastatingly effective, the track’s basic song structure and stripped down synth lines hark back to the early 80s when electro as a term included New York hip hop, and the track could easily have emerged from America’s cultural capital. Instead, it’s the handiwork of Luke Solomon and Justin Harris, two Englishmen hailing from London and south coast seaside town Bournemouth respectively, both of whom are best known for house music.

The Creeps, in fact, appeared on the duo’s own label Music for Freaks, on their second album The Man Who Lived Underground, only being picked up by Gigolo a few months back. The vinyl version features the duo’s original mix on one side and an instrumental minimalist mix on the flip, by German superstar producer type Steve Bug, though significantly Freaks’ own first mix remains unequvocably the best.