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SONGS OF THE DAY: Botnek – “Through the Night” and My Digital Enemy & Jason Chance “Feel It In the Air”

These are probably two tracks that you wouldn’t place together, unless of course you were a lover of ’90s italohouse and clocked both vocal samples as coming from diva Ann Marie Smith. Coming off the heels of a massive mix of “Easy” by Matt Zo and Porter Robinson, Canadian duo Botnek has been ceremoniously anointed the next big thing by Dim Mak founder Steve Aoki. Tracks like “Panama Bass” and “Rass” laid the ground work of the electroglitch sound that they’ve developed succinctly over the past few years. For “Through the Night,” they nicked the vocal line which sounds like a sample of Sharada House Gang featuring Ann Marie Smith “Dancing Through the Night.” Starting off like just about any other stadium house track, the magic comes as the vocal is deployed throughout the intro, leading to a drum fill that crescendoes into glitchy electro madness. Whether that vocal effect becomes the “Botnek” trademark or just another sound in their wheelhouse is yet to be seen, but for now they’ve got a massive record that is set to be a massive festival anthem this season. The collaboration of My Digital Enemy and Jason Chance led to the recently unleashed, frolicking “Feel It In the Air.” The energetic mix of tribal and piano house has a definite feel of a big nineties club track with a bit of electro to keep it sounding current. Playing it in my club sets since it was released, the vocal sample has been driving me nuts because I kept thinking it was Motiv8 “Rockin for Myself.” It wasn’t until I heard the Botnek track that it hit me, the sample is from “Move Your Feet” by 49ers featuring Ann Marie Smith (the song which Motiv8 sampled). When combined with “Move On” by Leonardo GloVibes, these tracks point out that the current ’90s house revival movement is also paying its due respect to Italohouse.

Images courtesy of Dim Mak and Zulu Recordings.

SONG OF THE DAY: Leonardo GloVibes – “Move On”

A really good DJ/producer can be compared to a burlesque dancer – a good tease leads to an even better payoff. Just as a master DJ might tease his crowd with a sample of a something familiar, Italian born Leonardo Glovibes has constructed “Move On” to do the same thing. About 45 seconds in, there is just a single sampled horn note. The note is so familiar- and as it is effected and repeated, the anticipation builds. After another 30 seconds, the sample is played longer and all the trainspotters are going crazy realizing that it’s taken from a house classic. Then after another thirty seconds, the sample is played in full and you realize that its the sax line from Black Box “Strike It Up.” Over the next five minutes, the horn line is worked every which way – stretched out, staccatoed, echoed – all over a disco/tribal house beat that is set to be an Ibiza anthem. Already in the Beatport Top 10 on Beatport, it’s a record that crowds will love as much as the DJs do. It makes a fitting tribute to the original artist Black Box as their modus operandi, which was often liberally sampling other people’s work without giving credit until after it was discovered (see Loleatta Hollaway and Martha Wash). There’s a good chance that this track is going to become so big this summer that a vocal will be added and it will become a new house standard a la Lee & Cabrera “Shake It.”

Images courtesy of PP Music.

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