Posted by Budgie at July 29, 2005 02:08 PM

To The Other Side...

This record has been doing my head in for the past couple of weeks now. It's not the music, it's more me trying to get to the bottom of who is behind it...

Track : THE DOORS - "BOSSA ROCKER"

This cheeky white label bootleg has been doing the rounds since the beginning of this year. I stumbled across it a few weeks back whilst looking for records by my favourite remixers of the past couple of years, Yam Who?, and it was hiding in amongst their stuff in my local record shop.

Is it the work of them? I dunno. It could be. It's very similar to the sort of ideas they pursue under that guise and their Blackbeard one.

But, to confuse matters more, in trying to find info on it, i've also seen the record referred to as "Break Through This" and credited to Bossa Rocker.

I've also heard a rumour that the guys behind GAMM, the remix / edit side label of Sweden's Raw Fusion records, are behind it too...

Ach, who cares. I should just let stuff like this go and just relish in the music.

I will tell you this though, it does feature The Doors.

There have been quite a lot of lazy remixes clogging up the charts this year. Pretty unimaginative covers of 80's pop songs or just dull producers taking an old tune and slapping a 4/4 beat under it and hoping it sells - whish for some reason, it does...

If you are a Doors fan, don't fear. This track, a reworking of their "Break On Through" is not like that.

This is a tasty re-edit of "Break On Through", I say "edit" as the guys behind it, whoever they may be, have treated this with respect and cleverly use a lot of the original. It's just that they re-jig it into a different order, but it's still unmistakably "Break On Through".

But why "Bossa Rocker" as a title? Well, it's funny, I had thought that the remixers had slapped a latin percussion onto this, but on revisiting the original, that latin groove is there right from the start. It just gets swamped by the rest of the track later on.

As this version is aimed at the dancefloor, it teases you with the percussion and the infamous riff and although they do add a 4/4 beat to the proceedings, it's very unintrusive. In keeping people on the floor they keep filtering and dropping out the bassline and percussion to maximum effect while loads of Jim Morrison samples, and the lyrics to the song, punctuate it all whilst building up for a break down before Jim yells "WAKE UP!" and it all kicks off again.

In the right hands, on the right dancefloor, at the right time, "Bossa Rocker" would be deadly.

Enjoy.

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Ta,
Budgie