The
second single from Gecko Turner's rather super album on Lovemonk ('Chandalismo
Ilustrado) comes complete with a pair of bumping version excursions
from former Spiritual South-ist Danny J Lewis and the Dutch Rhythm Combo
– a bit of a bonus for the floor...
The original
is an afro Cuban charmer, a real Cuban influence here, and no wonder:
the vocal comes from the amazing Gene Garcia, and the piano tumbao is
from the Cuban jazz legend Javier 'Caramelo' Masó. Gecko's typically
quirky original is given the heavy percussive work-over in a deep Detroit
house style by Danny J Lewis's Afrofuturistic mixes– so Spiritual
South it hurts. It begins with a bassbin-threatening stomp with Danny
letting himself loose on all the studio percussion, before settling
into a cracking uptempo groove for peaktime. It's a right stormer, and
no mistake. The Dutch Rhythm Combo's Felix Haaksman beefs up the track
into a distorted bass- driven bumper, taking Caramelo's piano as the
lead in a West London-influenced cracker.