Phunk Remixes

Phunk Remixes

Shinedoe, Innersphere [Intacto]

28 August, 2007 | 2.49PM

• Written by: Richard Brophy
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: innersphere, intacto, shinedoe

Ricardo Villalobos’s rambling, 20-minute long tracks usually make me wish that he could get to the point quicker.

Thankfully, he tempers his tendency for musical verbosity on this remix of upcoming Dutch producer Shinedoe - whose ‘Sound Travelling’ album was one of last year’s most overlooked releases.

Laying down dubby, shuffling beats, the combination of a hypnotic, Oriental-like repetitive stab and warm keys - and not much else, but it doesn’t matter as his arranging is excellent - sound more like late 90s deep house brought up to date than a blueprint for the future of minimal techno.

That’s a compliment by the way: Ricardo Villalobos always excels when he leans closer to his house roots, and it’s for precisely this reason that his version of ‘Phunk’ is so rewarding.

The other remixer, Mark Broom, has also taken influence from the late 90s.

The London DJ/producer’s version is more upbeat, focusing on the loopy tribal rhythms that were de rigeur pre-minimalism, but although it is more pumping and will work on the dance floor, it doesn’t sound like Broom is trying to push this sound forward.

On this release, the lanky Chilean’s understated version has used up the phunk quota.

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