Believe (The New Mastersounds Remix)
Soldiers of Twilight
12″ Single, 2005
If you plan on downloading this song, please indulge me: download the track, listen to it all the way through and then continue reading.
Did you listen to it?….all the way through?
Crazy, right!? What is this slice of heaven, you ask? A prime candidate for the next city-specific “Lost Soul” compilation (minus the decade-spanning transition at the end of the song)? No ma’am, no sir, as the end of the song belies, this is a remix of house track that came out last year.
This came to me digitally and although the person who sent it to me told me that it was a remix of a house vocal, I couldn’t get it out of my head that it was a new backing track for an old soul vocal, although the talking at the end of the song sort of gives it away. And sure enough when I was entering the info into my iTunes, I realized that I already had the “King Britt Funky Mix” via DJ Subs Planet.3 mix cd.
This is one of the most unique songs I’ve heard in a long time. It seems to be in line with the New Mastersounds’ sound, or at least what I can glean about it from reading their website but I still find it uncanny how well they were able to put the ’68 dusty basement studio vibe on that vocal in such an utterly convincing way.
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