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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (78 ratings)

Key To Life - Find Our Way (Breakaway) (The Elusive Peppermint Jam Remixes) - 25-Mar-08 05:55 PM
What starts as your basic deep house, 4/4 time, bla bla turns into something far more luscious. Well, I say basic but you're only a few bars in when you realise the snappy percussion has had your feet moving for several seconds. String stabs followed by the "Punch it out!" sample already have you grooving, when everything stops for the chord stabs.

Note you may have experienced goose pimples by now. You may be smiling and nodding your head in time. This is quite normal.

I won't dwell on the detail and spoil all the surprises but safe to say, this will be a tune I will keep for a very long time. The dub on A2 has all the above less the full lyric and some of the goosepimples. It does a good job of separating the mid-range from the top end and bass enough to accentuate both, rather than making it sound hollow. Think Boris Dlugosch meets Loleatta Holloway, they have a drink, one thing leads to another...

Disco Sluts - Full Flyte - 08-Sep-07 08:45 AM
I always find it a bit of a shame when a remix single like this comes out a couple of years after the original, or even a couple of months, and the original mix or mixes are still the better one/ones. That's definitely the case here with the B1 original track still putting the other two to shame. Nice, looping, uplifting progressive house as used by the likes of Digweed and Dimitri (not from Paris, the other one).

Of the remixes, A1 uses piano well and bounces along happily enough, but just comes across as a little cheesy. The B2 track is better, with a more serious, progressive feel to it. It builds nicely too, but still isn't as good as the original on the flipside. Shame.

Seb Fontaine & The G - Hooked On Junk E.P - 08-Sep-07 08:20 AM
Peculiar selection of tracks here, clearly from a fan of The Police and pretty good value with six tracks crammed onto one disc.

A-side comprises the Judge Jules-esque mixes. All three are based on the similar percussive breakbeat. A1 is a painfully slow tempo percussive house track with a funky beat to it and "all that junk" vocal sample. Probably the most vocals of all six tracks. A2 moves more towards dub from vocal, and is a stepping=stone to the A3 track, which is all percussive apart from an odd organ break three quarters of the way through. This is the best track of the six in my opinion.

The B-side mixes all sample The Police in one way or another. B1 and B2 are fairly dreamy, laid back house tracks sampling from "Roxanne" B3 is a reggae mix of "Walking on the Moon" that works quite well but is so short it's practically over before it's started - mix with care! ;o)

Junk Project - Volume 1 - 08-Sep-07 08:10 AM
A-side is a relentless acid house driver. Strong all the way through with a couple of good breaks towards the end of the track. It's a little overly bleepy and lacking in substance but the B1 track makes up for it. Nice, building intro into a more pensive and evenly finished fast, hard, acidic house trancer. B2 track is instrumental bleeps and strings with no beat. Only three minutes or so long but handy for overlaps or to lay over the top of something beaty.

Judy Cheeks - Respect - 08-Sep-07 08:04 AM
TNT mixes are a little disappointing, with the vocal garage A1 track and dub A2 tracks similarly basic. Great, strong vocals from JC but lacking in the accompanying beats and bassline. Bottom Dollar versions on the B-side however are stronger, chunkier, and more urgent, delivering a serious 'hands in the air and whoop it up' vocal anthem, with an equally chewy dub to follow. Good use of th vocals, piano and strings in equal measure. Nice.

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