The 1990s, what a time…
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Alfred Soto: We were about due for a flattened variant on Basement Jaxx’s “Romeo.” The house cliches are fine until the vocals.
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Katherine St. Asaph: Undeniably slop, but nice enough; the kind of thing that exists to fill playlist space that could have gone to something less pleasant. Call it raising-the-floor filler.
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Iain Mew: On our playlist for this month’s songs, this followed so seamlessly from the end of MNEK’s “Reverse!!” that a couple of times, I thought the intro was part of the same song. The juxtaposition very much does not work in favour of “On 2nite.” Well done to Silva Bumpa for observing that speeding up the vocal makes “I got a girl, but you look good tonight” come off differently, but he does absolutely nothing else but add some splashy drum punctuation. Even the garage beats lack energy.
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Nortey Dowuona: The original production of Montell Jordan’s classic by Brian Palmer and Sergio Moore, aka Lilz & PLX, is fluid and tender, a quickening of Claudia Barry’s classic produced by Jurgen Korduletsch. It feels warm, loose and quaint, allowing any listener to melt into its atmosphere: a linkage of the two pieces that heightens the strengths of each. This song is tight, fussy and controlled, and there’s a rigidity to the drums that isn’t in the original chop, making the song even more flat and vacant once the drop happens. The synth top-line is catchy and strangely melancholic, but at its most chilling in the intro. Once played over the drums, all of its power is gone. This is just a insubstantial mix addition, but that’s still a high bar to clear.
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Tim de Reuse: Wrings out all the sleaze of the original vocals into a brittle, cardboard-like residue; even so, the rest of the track is so antiseptic and clean that those flattened vocals are still the only thing for your ear to catch onto. The worst category of remix.
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Scott Mildenhall: It’s amazing what you can do with a copy of Rave eJay. Silva Bumpa has conjured a welcome reminder to listen to “Love For the Sake of Love.”
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Will Adams: That the market for this type of lazy UK house remix of Hits You Know And Love will never go away is a grim reality I’ve come to accept. The grimmer reality is that, for a Montell Jordan flip, the best choice is still, sadly, “Esta Noche.”
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