Deadboy – If U Want Me
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With so much time to build up hype from the initial DJ plugs to the time the record actually drops, the tracks we fall in love with at first sight face a serious challenge. Will they stack up once the first hype fades off and the record has to stand on its own legs? With the numerous ‘exclusive’ stamps and teasing tweets, we, as listeners with no special acces, have to deal with the waiting-time and possibly fading interest.
Deadboy‘s If You Want Me has been making the rounds since last year, but the release didn’t drop until this month. This means that things could take two different turns. Would we all be bored with the track by the time we could own its luring grooves on a proper 12″, or had we built the right momentum to fully appreciate the tune?
Listening to the track today, I know I am in the latter department. The dead-simple combination of gliding keyboards, swinging hi-hats and a kick drum that veers into a dubstep territory still sounds like tomorrow’s music, even though we have been bopping along to this for months. Even the Lumidee sample sounds as fresh as ever.
I’m afraid of overfeeding you guys with great tracks at the moment, but these last couple of weeks have provided some of the most interesting tracks in house and dubstep for a long time. Deadboy’s single marks the first release on the Numbers imprint, and I will be surprised if this does not find its way to my end of the year list. (Was this statement a little too confident for an April post?)
Graphic high five via Cristoph Schreiber
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this is definitely going to be on my end of year list too.
i haven’t heard a tune that roared instant classic quite like this one in a very long time. it’s fucking amazing, and believe me, while i knew deadboy was around and about, i absorbed none of the hype.
there really is nothing this year to compare with it, imo.
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