{"id":1283,"date":"2009-09-03T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2009-09-03T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:51:25","slug":"william-orbit-purdy-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"william orbit &#8211; purdy ep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamorbit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/purdywater.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"418\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>having <a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1196\">reviewed<\/a> and enjoyed the album,<font color=\"#008080\"> my oracle lives uptown<\/font>, from which this track has been lifted, i was rather keen to hear these new remixes.<\/p>\n<p>however, as much as it saddens me to say, i think <strong>william orbit<\/strong> has actually missed a trick here. <\/p>\n<p>basically, the original laid back blissed out slice of gorgeousness, has been given five set of thumping and bumping makeovers aimed squarely at the dance floor.<\/p>\n<p>chart topper <strong>chicane<\/strong> has, as to be expected, provided a commercial&#160; big room hands in the air euphoria dance track that will make a lot of people feel good; <strong>greenmoney<\/strong> goes for a more electro-dancehall vibe with a jump up beat, and snatched vocals which at the 3 minute mark then adds an extra layer of rave styled synths; <strong>billy buttons<\/strong> heads for the old school piano house riff groove, adds some lightweight sunkissed fem-vox to the proceedings, and keeps things close to the source; and finally, <strong>henner &amp; green<\/strong> go all widescreen bleep-n-rave anthem-esque, which while not bad, is purely functional.<\/p>\n<p>all of which underlines the fact that the original version (also included on the ep) is by far the better of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>so what&#8217;s missing ? <\/p>\n<p>well, were i to have any input to the remix selection, instead of these run of the mill dance floor fillers, i would have suggested that given the quality of the source material with its central piano riff, swooping synths and underlining synthetic throb, i would have used up the budget to track down <strong>lindstrom and prins thomas,<\/strong> requested an epic 25 minute drawn out nu-balaeric disco retake, and let the resulting funker loose. <\/p>\n<p>naturally, i can see such a team up being highly beneficial to my play list.<\/p>\n<p>after all, <strong>william orbits<\/strong> previous work virtually defined sunshine friendly, ambient house, and <font color=\"#008080\">purdy<\/font> (the original) very much fits in with that league of excellence.<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamorbit.com\/blog\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; &#160; having reviewed and enjoyed the album, my oracle lives uptown, from which this track has been lifted, i was rather keen to hear these new remixes. however, as much as it saddens me to say, i think william orbit has actually missed a trick here. basically, the original laid back blissed out slice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singles-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}