Yuppie Disco
What do modern high salary working couples put on at their dinner parties in the UK these days? At the end of the 90s onwards they had a massive freezer of trendy smokers’ chill to raid, but nowadays I couldn’t imagine anything more cringe-worthy than tucking in to my char-grilled lamb chump to the sounds of the K&D sessions…And for that matter what’s the compilation of choice for the current back-to-mine-comedown-bifta-bashes? If anyone has the answer I would be generally interested to know. Bearing all this mind I recently came across this track and have since been liking it more and more each listen, and infact it has become a skip resistant tune on my iShuffle. The track could fit as perfectly on the Ikea table mounted Hi-Fi, as in a montage sequence in the next Bridget Jones film. The lyrics are a bit cheesy and the whole tone so unoffensive that it could even have fairly conservative middle aged women happily having it played on their car radios as they drive to Tescos. So why do I like it? Well firstly Tracy Thorn’s voice is always a pleasure to hear under foot-tapping beats and I’ve been a fan of this ever since I first heard Todd Terry’s reinterpretation of Missing. Secondly New York band/producers Escort’s decision of totally stripping away the electro-pop klangs of the original Ewan Pearson production and rebuilding it in a Sade on the dance-floor architecture, really adds even more beauty and emotion to the timbre of Thorn’s distinctive voice (which is possibly slightly lost in the mix of the original). The lyrical sequence “close your eyes, count to ten, turn around back again..” is a wonderful little-girl lead in to the funky chorus. To hear this childlike innocence in Thorn’s usual furrowed-brow adult manner is a first for me and something I repeatedly enjoy, especially in contrast to her usual style throughout the rest of the track. Anyway, I can’t really play this out, even at some of my classy lounge club gigs I have been blagging recently so I thought I’d post it up here.. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Maybe you might even put it on when you are entertaining guests, unless of course you already do and I have subsequently answered my own question…
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