We don't usually review remixes - the same principle applies to reviewing rubbings out on old articles - arcane, but only very occasionally interesting. But like everything there are exceptions, revel in the process and when you hear a master at work, Madlib, say, you certainly sit up.
And you bolt upright here. Catch up on the first class remixer Kaidi Tatham recently with Robert Mitchell. Here the main focus is like a 1980s vocal soul extravaganza. But the crucial bit is that the keys sound jazz and actually are. It is Kaztake Takeuchi at the board on 'Get Up' we believe. But you are waiting certainly, why would you not, for the vibes of Roy Ayers while enjoying the vocals of Vanessa Freeman. Ayers is super subtle which makes this very cool but probably not hip in terms of clubs nowadays in terms of frenetic beat patrolling and consoling certainly. That does not matter because what goes around comes around and 'Get Up' keeps it real. Gilles Peterson may well smile but he'd play it in the warm up only. There's nothing wrong with that. Answers on a postcard please. We await Gilles' big statement remixing Herbie Hancock and Lionel Loueke next year in all acceleration HH remixed. As another H -Superintendent Ted Hastings - intimated, it's been worth it: phew - in the hunt for still one further H, the arch nemesis - ''We've been round the houses, Steve, round the houses and down the bloody drains.''
Bow down to 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine' once again not only but also given the sweltering temperatures in the south of England at the moment. This KT treatment is in keeping with the spirit of LA vibes don El Roi - 82 this autumn - and still killin'.
Onwards Ted all said more reading to the jazz club owning 'tec-head Ridley, soon on ITV
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