After a groundbreaking first album and a successful ‘DJ Kicks’ compilation, the founder of Turbo Recordings returned with a highly expected long play called ‘Ciao!’ The results… below average I must say, even more so after an all-star production team commanded by Soulwax chipped in. Nevertheless, a genially crafted disco gem written by the one and only Gonzales called ‘Love Don’t Dance Here Anymore’ emerges from the ashes of 40 minutes of monotonous tracks, just to execute the coup de grace.
This year, Tiga presents a series of remix 12” for ‘Sex O’Clock’, ‘Overtime’, ‘Gentle Giant’ and ‘Love Don’t Dance Here Anymore’. The Canadian producer ambitiously aims to have top producers to rework his tracks. The first instalment of the series, ‘Sex O’Clock’, features the versions of Matias Aguayo, Jamie Lidell and Playgroup a.k.a. Trevor Jackson.
The face side of the 12” is a masterpiece, clearly more interesting than the original. Playgroup decided to follow his usual line of dark, microspically calculated and everlasting sum of elements, i.e. the shortened hi-hats, deep low vocals and hypnotic synths. The track takes the most important and characteristic elements and blends them, timely. Ironically, the lyrics finally make some sense when they’re transported in a Trevoresque ambient.
The Matias Aguayo remix does not comes as a surprise, nor impresses, yet it has a certain warm groove that only the Chilean producer would manage to obtain, and in such easy going manner. Finally, Lidell’s remix is the least fortunate of the tracks; although it’s interesting to hear a creator of old sounding modern ballads to play with rough sounds, by the second half of the song it stops being ‘Sex O’Clock’ to become again Playgroup time.
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