Is this the finest Balearic House music record ever released?
Is this the finest Balearic House music record ever released?
First released in 1989, this stunning piece of Balearic house music will be etched into my mind for as long as I still have my faculties in working order. This seminal piece of music encapsulated a feeling of freedom and a break away from the confines of mainstream pop music, a movement of hazy bliss. The main sample for this track is taken from Manuel Göttsching's 1984 Ambient LP "E2-E4" and is the perfect example of how to take one genius piece of music and flip it into another genius piece of music to appeal to an entirely different musical demographic.
The addition of various other bird samples and atmospherics helps to encapsulate perfectly what Balearic house music was all about. This was yet another winning idea from those slick Italians, a nation who i have always spoken very highly of in the context of electronic music production and sample usage.
Derrick May also did a fine job of further remixing a couple of years after this, but for me the original mix is still the winner.
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