Track Of The Day: Two Smoking Barrels - Basses Loaded (Late Night Dub) (Yoshi Toshi)

 

This is one I haven’t played for a long time. A collaboration between Terry Francis and Tony Hewitt, ‘Basses Loaded (Late Night Dub)’ is a deep, pulsating piece of after hours house. The bass takes centre stage, allowing the vocal sample, skittering percussion and synth stabs, which aren’t a million miles away from the wild pitch aesthetic, free rein. Terry Francis’ productions still more than hold their own. A lot of what he made in the second half of the nineties and the beginning of the noughts was very minimal, pitched up huge with a n implicit wonkiness. This is, by comparison, straight forward and more derivative. Still does damage though.