Sunday, July 23, 2023

Track Of The Day: The Return of DJ Duke - Release Da Tension (Power Music)


There isn’t much to this. However, its filtered approach just about predates almost all of what quickly followed it in the mid nineties. At that time filter disco was the sound. For better or worse it was unavoidable. It’s main proponents did very well out of it, and Paris, where I was living at the time, was almost its epicentre thanks to, amongst others, Daft Punk and Pepe Bradock. This is very upfront house music, stomping into your consciousness courtesy of well place vocal samples and dynamic loops. Before she knew the name of the track, my other hals thought the vocal was saying “Release The Chechens”. Oh how we laughed. Great days.

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