Hello, and welcome! It is my honor to present the inaugural post in our "song of the day" series! No, it doesn't have a cleverer name than that yet!
Belgium-based producers Vito De Luca and Stephen Fasano, as Aeroplane, have been steadily gaining momentum over the past 12 months as hotly-tipped remixers and purveyors of fine Italian Disco on their own 12" records. They are set to raise their profile significantly with upcoming remixes for Cut Copy and Lindstrom.
Their single "Whispers", which features the vocal talents of Kathy Diamond (who made one of last year's favorites Miss Diamond To You), is my personal favorite song of the year. Not that such a thing matters - this simmering, bowl-you-over groove is bigger than any calendar or year-end list. De Luca and Fasano obviously studied up on Miss Diamond, giving her a meaty, stuttering bass line around which to wrap her velvety voice and shimmering showers of synths to wear like the ice that bears her name, recalling and one-upping her own anthem "All Woman".
Aeroplane (feat. Kathy Diamond) - Whispers
Monday, November 17, 2008
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does song of the say have to be a newish song or can i post my favorite ace of base cuts too?
What that guy said.
i know i plan on mixing it up as far as old and new.
jeez, gung ho song of the day proponents, way to comment on the inaugural post.
my piece: i'm normally a big fan of anything "dance" or "electronic," but i found this song pleasant but unremarkable. that's only after three listens, so this may be unfair, but my first test for any new music is that it "grabs" the music loving part of my brain in some noncritical way. the song does get more interesting towards the end, as they add more melodic variation to the instrumental accompanyment (i know the one-note bass grove is a standard tension-building electronica trope, but i've never appreciated it much), but the favorable parts (synths, guitar lick, etc) don't add up to a compelling whole. i think the vocal melody kills it for me ... it's not particularly interesting, never goes anywhere, and fails to hold the song together and move it beyond "repetitive disco groove" to "coherent song." maybe that's asking too much, but breathy disco vocalists are a dime a dozen and overall the song didn't strike any special chord for me.
i reserve the right to amend this review more favorably later, but as for snap judgments so it goes. also, i may have just broken the land speed record for music review cliches in one paragraph.
heh - it may say something about my preferences that my 2007 "song of the year" was "In the City" by Chromatics - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOxribt3kA
which contains, i think, 2 bass notes, 2 sequenced blips, guitar scratching and ruth radelet, who ain't exactly whitney houston herself. that song was ALL build-up and no payoff, but somehow it worked for me.
i'm not sure if i'd classify "Whipsers" as a "grower", but i did listen to it once back when Forkcast posted it. i liked it well enough, but sort of forgot about it. a few months ago when i ran across it again, it stuck with me and it's pretty much been in constant rotation ever since.
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