After Maya Jane's excursions into slower, dubbier pastures (below) let's stick with the slightly more leftfield house vibes, with this rather lovely four-tracker from Flash Atkins, AKA Paper Recordings main man Ben Davis.Test One is a reworking of Sweet Exorcist's bleep classic with the tinky-tonk analogue acid sparseness of the original replaced by an altogether more sumptuous and uplifting nu-disco feel. And a trumpet, unless I'm very much mistaken… but it works. In Flash Dub form, which has something of a big-room techno feel to it, it works even better. And it comes accompanied with Cherry Bounce, an altogether funkier, more organic affair with plenty of uplift, which again is accompanied by Flash's own Dub for maximum impact.
Playing the original and this version of Test One side-by-side is quite instructional, actually, I think. It's the perfect demonstration of how far we've come, and proof of what for me is one of house music's greatest strengths – the ability to essentially all sound the same, and yet simultaneously, continue to ceaselessly reinvent itself.
Anyway enough of the cod theorising – this is good.
Out: This week
About: Here's the obligatory Paper Recordings link, then.
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