Robot Music

2009, Mobilee.  Taken from the excellent Back To Back, Vol. 3 compilation on Mobilee, we have a double pack of remixes here.  Mind you, the remixes themselves are taken from the Vol 3 comp, so if you buy that (which I recommend) then you will already have these tracks.

Part 1 kicks things off with arguably the strongest track of the bunch, Nick Curly’s rework of Sebo K’s Diva. The name says it all as the song features a clipped house diva vocal that repeats through much of the duration.  A punchy, slightly tribal house beat gives the track a late-night dancefloor vibe that is impossible not to move to- even sitting in front of a computer keyboard.  My only complaint?  It takes about 3 minutes of the tracks 6:55 to gain steam.  That’s what a dj is for, right?  Next up is Efdemin’s take on the Sebo K/Prosumer track, Moved. Another winner here, albeit not a stomping affair like Diva, Efdemin creates a minimal/deep house groove with a meloncholy feel that is intensified by the soundtrack from some (any) cable TV news show, tracking the daily drama of the ailing economy.  Not exactly hands-in-the-air material, especially when the soulful vocal appears, saying “Stop haunting me,” but thoroughly engaging nonetheless.

D’Julz does the business on GummiHZ’s Los Los in Part 2, offering a nice minimal/tech house workout with eerie synth patterns and a hypnotic groove.  This is a deep, moody track that would do well as a set-builder in your next tech house mix.  Christian Burkhardt closes out Part 2 with his mix of Anja Scheider’s Get Away. A bass heavy tech house groove is punctuated with clipped vocal snippets and some brooding chords.  Both of these tracks are a good listen, but benefit from the imagination of a good DJ, as evidenced by the mixed version of “Back To Back.”

Mobilee rarely disappoints these days- if you are in doubt, pick up this remix pack.  Or better yet, get “Back To Back, Vol. 3″ because there is a lot more to discover from this label, if you haven’t already.  -RM

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