At 09:33 AM 12/12/01 -0800, Mark Allerton wrote:
>Yes and no...
>
>Check out 4Hero's version of Patrice Rushen's "Wishful Thinking", or their
>remix of Nuyorican Soul's cover of "Black Gold of The Sun". The Rushen
>cover is 99.9% identical to the original. The first 4 minutes of the
>"Black Gold" remix sound a _lot_ more like the original version than they
>did Nuyorican's cover.
I know, I remember reading that Marc and Dego felt that the NYS cover
"didn't capture the soul of the original." But I did like the 4Hero cover
*because* they gave you the flavor of the original, then took it to drum n
bass mode...the build and transition was what made that cover.
That was my complaint about "Les Fleur" - I wouldn't have minded the same
formula (start with sounding like the original then take it other places
midway through the song) but I guess they thought "Hey!! We're duplicating
early 1970s production values in the 21st century!"
Elson
>So I don't think anyone should be that surprised to hear "Les Fleur" come
>out the way it did. It does have the trademark breakdown in the middle,
>which is pretty nice - but if anything I'd have liked them to strip down
>the chorus. Oh well. I am surprised that it was put out as a single.
>
>The version of "2000 Black" on the album is pretty damn straight too -
>especially when compared to the Pavel Kostiuk version on "The Good Good".
>
>On a related note: did anyone else notice that Dego and Marc Mac don't
>seem to have co-written or co-produced anything on the LP? Assuming that
>Brad Somatik is not another Dego alias, I don't think that there's one
>track on the LP that has both names in the credits.
>
>..Mark..
>
>On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 03:16 AM, Elson Trinidad wrote:
>
>>I just heard this finally...um, it's not really that much different than
>>the original Minnie Riperton tune. In fact, it's a spitting image of the
>>original. I was expecting to hear this tune in "the classic 4-hero
>>style" but, I dunno, all it just seems to be showing is that they know
>>how to make it sound like the original. Whoopee. Any thoughts...?
>>
>>
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>>: . elson@westworld.com : www.westworld.com/~elson
>>: . groove to the futurethnic beats of e:trinity at www.e-trinity.org and
>>www.mp3.com/etrinity
>>
>>UNIVERSAL TRUTH #107317: If a band has the word "soul" in their name,
>>chances are they do NOT play soul music.
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: . elson trinidad, los angeles, california, usa
: . elson@westworld.com : www.westworld.com/~elson
: . groove to the futurethnic beats of e:trinity at www.e-trinity.org and
www.mp3.com/etrinity
UNIVERSAL TRUTH #107317: If a band has the word "soul" in their name,
chances are they do NOT play soul music.
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