- House music today is one of the most dominating forces inside club culture. With its diva vocals and deep funky beats, people from San Francisco to London to Tokyo have embraced House Music not only as a style of sound, but as a religious experience. As every man and women flock to their favorite clubs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, their weekend has never been the same ever since. House music’s very own visionary, Eddie Amador returns hand-in-hand with Deep Dish’s Yoshitoshi label to ‘shake’ out another floor burner in “Shake It” with extended remix duties from Dean Coleman (aka Luka Brazi).
Let the BOOTY SHAKING COMMENCE! As Dean Coleman’s “Poolside Mix” starts with a synthesized male vocal that ask all the girls to “shake it to House Music.” Within time, the beat comes in and it begins. As the beat and rhythm play off one another, I listen and wait for something to happen. Waiting…I’m waiting, but all I get is the same beat looping continually while the vocals that began the track repeats, telling me to “shake it, feel it – house music” Damn, doesn’t seem like a good start now does it? And I don’t need anyone telling me this is electronica (btw, House Music is no longer really part of it these days) cos it’s suppose to loop. Sure there’s a minimal break that introduces the claps and usually piano lines, but that’s it. Not much occurs during the track and it feels like it is best suited as a DJ Tool than a stand alone track. Is this track House Music – sure, but is it H.O.U.S.E music for the body and soul?
The “Poolside Dub” you think would be a bit different than the main mix. Obviously, fewer vocals would be your first answer…and your right, but that’s about it. I didn’t hear anything else different for 7-8 minutes. Too bad, but if you don’t dig the vocals, the dub will please you just fine.
Dean Coleman’s other mix for the double pak sees a “Respekt Dub “in a much funkier, groovy version. Most definitely more pleasing and interesting than the other mixes. It’s deeper and unique with a bassline that sounds like it’s submerge underwater. More buildup and progress than any of the other mixes, you think this would be a ‘Progressive’ joint instead of a House lick. As my head grooves around in circles, you can feel the influence or blending of the genres together. Making up from the A-side, my hat tips off for ‘respekt’ to Dean Coleman what seems to be the track that will get the most play time on the dance floor unless…….
Eddie has something to say about that. Amador’s very own “Dub Mix” is a simple Deep House number with a decent groove and slight delayed vocals so that it doesn’t sound too repetitive. Thumping drums mixed with a driving b-line combined with a ruff vocal demanding that I ‘shake it;’ o, I will, once I’m in the club, but not right now, not in front of a computer screen cos that would be too strange, even for me. Reminiscent sounds that recall the massive “House Music” can be heard in parts of the dub more off than Coleman’s reinterpretations, but nothing new or genuinely exciting can be taken away from the dub.
Not as timeless as his debut of "House Music," the new single is nice and will appeal to every obsessive and devoted House Head in the world. There’s nothing wrong with the tracks, but as you listen to it over and over a few times here and there, you don’t get the same reaction as if you heard “House Music” or “Psycho X-Girlfriend.” Maybe I just put too much hype for myself when I saw Eddie Amador and Yoshitoshi together again or maybe it really isn’t that grand at all.
TracklistA1. Dean Coleman’s Poolside Mix
B1. Dean Coleman’s Poolside Dub
C1. Dean Coleman’s Respekt Dub
D1. Eddie Amador Dub Mix