Dancefloor Bombs

20 May, 2011
by: Music Team

Holy dancefloor! The Spoonfed DJ team pick the tunes that will be rocking your socks this weekend.

Tom picks: Inner West Soul - Crown Jewels (Disco Deviance)

Crown Jewels (IWS Edit) 96k Preview by InnerWestSoul

Summer officially starts when you press play. King of the edits Inner West Soul has pulled it out the bag again, this time turning his production skills onto Gary Byrds oft-forgotten disco gem 'The Crown'.

Believe me, this will be absolutely everywhere over the coming months, from festivals to back garden BBQs. If ever a song was made for an outdoors party, this was it. I am currently organizing a mass-playing of this tune in public which will hopefully result in dancing flowers, doves flying around in unison and a special appearance from the sunglasses-wearing sun from the Vitalite advert.

Alex picks: Solomun - Love Recycled 1

Solomun - Love Recycled 1 (Original Mix) by Electrocorp.fr

Bosnian-born producer Solomun is known for precision-engineered tech house, fathomless deep house and epic, ‘maximal’ minimal – all quite serious, Germanic faire. So it came as a bit of surprise when he dropped an E.P of disco-friendly, pop-referential soul re-edits last month, but heavens to murgatroid was it a pleasant one.

The Love Recycled E.P chiefs the vocals and some other bits from 3 golden love jams and, well, recycles them. Lovingly. My pick of the bunch is number 1, which lays the mouth-watering bass line, plucky guitar riff and shimmery Rhodes keys that made the late, great Nate Dogg’s Regulate so very gansta on top of a swaggering 120bpm house beat, and teases the listener with them for 3 whole minutes. Therein a deliciously spaced-out, minute-long breakdown commences, introducing the warped, accelerated vocals of Michael McDonald’s 1982 soul ballad, I Keep Forgetting – the original version of the jam. As McDonald earnestly declares his absent-mindedness, I am unfailingly sent into spasms of ecstasy…a cheeky cowbell strikes up in symphony. Make sure your hip joints are well oiled before busting one to this peach.

Joj picks: Break and DJ Die - Slow Down VIP
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A VIP remix is often a shamefully transparent ploy to milk an aging
track’s diminishing favour. However, some tunes are so damn good in
the first place that, with a little change of wardrobe, they
rightfully earn a second term on the dance floor.

And so, the inevitable re-release of the megaton modern classic ‘Slow
Down’ by Break and DJ Die is neither surprising nor unwelcome. The
original vocal sample now expertly effected, that first build is
layered and expanded for crucial impact and the once grumbling, hollow
bassline has been given a sweet shot of adrenaline. The sleepy monster
you had before just stood up. He sounds angry.