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Title: We
Walked Home Together Remix Pack 1
Artist:
El_Txef_A
Label:
Forbidden Colours
Cat
Number: 0f0c0
Genre: House
01 Claim Of Planet Earth (Eduardo De La Calle
Internal Shuffle Mix)
02 Claim Of Planet Earth (The Black Madonna's
Black Tulip Mix)
03 Every Day Is Blue Monday feat Meggy (Lake
People Remix)
04 El_Txef_A - Claim Of Planet Earth (Deep'a
& Biri Remix)
05 The Love We Lost feat Woolfy (Andres
Aguirre Remix)
As
this is a remix EP of three of El_Txef_A’s compositions from his debut album,
and as comparing individual interpretations to their respective originals often
sounds trite, let’s get straight to the point and go with the flow.
Referring
to the Black Madonna’s ‘Black Tulip Mix’ as “her particular vision of italo” on
the press releases is, I suppose, a reason in itself why press releases
shouldn’t be taken too seriously. There is a chug which is reminiscent of said
genre, but besides that it’s afterhours warehouse funk with an all-important
disembodied voice. Lake People’s presence here is every bit as inspired as
anything on his debut album, while Eduardo de la Calle’s sinewy machine funk
hovers above a techno/electro fault line, veering towards the former. Deep’a
and Biri put together an atmospheric, depth-charged rethink, taking a completely
different route to those already-mentioned reworks of the track in question,
while Andres Aguirre’s functional workout will work for some, but not for me
lacking, as it does, that little bit of imagination.
The
Black Madonna’s version stands head and shoulders above the rest, but it’s also
the version which departs the least from the original. A case of less is more
perhaps, and all the more reason to seek out the album from which it was
inspired.
Here's a review which I originally wrote for Ibiza Voice but which had to be pulled due to some "issues".
