Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Erobique Meets Jonny Teupen - Hold On, I've Got To Leave You

ORIGINATION Mojo Club: The Remix Album
LAST LISTENED TO a few days ago
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT small
RATING

There are many remix albums about these days but this was the first one i saw, back in 1999. For those not in the know, a remix album is one where current artists take various tracks from the past and, well, remix them. Mojo Club brought out theirs to celebrate the tenth birthday of their Hamburg club, a club in which they played soul, funk, dancefloor jazz and the like.

About the participants in this particular track, i can write next to nothing. All i am (fairly) certain of is that they are both German. However, Jonny Teupen's original track appears to have been recorded around the start of the '70s and has a funky, cop-show style vibe. How much Erobique has (or have) altered it i also don't know. The only thing i can be sure of is that the pounding, four-to-the-floor beat was almost certainly was not part of the track. It works surprisingly well, with the even these obviously newly-added touches not clashing too much with what i imagine to be the original feel of the tune.

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