Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Boatface

Duncan Gray's never ending supply of high quality chug continues into 2023 with the release of Boatface on Tici Taci. Gorgeous, slip sliding, 100 BPM chug with some tension inside that sinuous groove.  

There are two tasty remixes. The Long Champs remix is an insistent, slinky, robotic thumper, likely to wear the carpet out in the corners at house parties. Dark repetitive fun. 

The Bedford Falls Players remix, the longest of the three at seven minutes twelve seconds, is a peach. What starts out as a long drawn out intro teases for ages, all the way through, the acid squiggle borrowed from certain New York three piece rap groups while vocal samples talking about flying objects coming from the stars pop up.

Edit: vocal sample is Buzz Aldrin, being interviewed about being on the moon. 

7 comments:

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  2. the Beastie boys sample in the remix is originally from the Commodores

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  3. I was considering unpicking all the samples in Hey Ladies...

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  4. Yes it is. Machine Gun from 1974.

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  5. I was going to leave a comment along the lines of; Chug, a musical genre in waiting, but after a brief visit to Bandcamp, I note that Chug is, apparently, already a musical genre. So I stand corrected.
    I very much enjoyed the Bedford Players Remix of Boatface, but, if push comes to shove, I think my favourite of the three versions is the original.

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    1. It's not just a genre Swede, it's a way of life.

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