jon e cash / lsg - up in the club
it's a diva dub! for a mad sec once i thought i came up with that! but it seems boy george and chaka khan have been making diva dubs since day dot. i guess in olden times they worked the same as rap/rnb's uber-annoying TV TRACK which i still dont really understand! did anyone ever say, even in the go-go 90s, thank god i can now hear busta rhymes' multi-track ad libs? did anyone ever play a tv track on the radio or in a club or anywhere?
(i hate 12s which have the tv track but not the instrumental and sometimes wonder whether there is a deliberate ideology going on, ie when some labels always give you the full works of instr/pella treats and some are so stingy that you're thankful just for a dirty version... what are they trying to say??)
in typical intense uk spod style jon e cash seems to be pushing some kind of diva dub purism, since there is probably no proper version of this meandering grimey piano track with occasional ladywailing in place of an actual vocal. i like diva dubs!
aftershock - pay attention
this is the song that was picked over "who are you" by 1xtra listeners to be aftershock's first single from their album. cruelly there was no 'pick your own fucking single you divs!' third option. both songs are pretty useless in terms of hooks, it's quite depressing! really their first big single should have been el rae's "old skool love", easily one of the five best brit rnb songs of the 00s. still, aftershock have made more rng records than anyone! i respect that.
alex mills - my house
she's still great! not really sure if she would ever be on 1xtra if target didnt fill in for heartless all the time, but so what, this rnb not grimey at all track has alex exploring high notes with a touch of n bedingieldish whimsy (sorry) and is great fun!
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