Reach Out (What Would Happen) / Peace Of Mind

Reach Out (What Would Happen) / Peace Of Mind

Atlantic Connection [Spearhead Reco...

5 November, 2007 | 2.47PM

• Section: Music Reviews
• Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

What a treat ‘Reach Out’ is.

This is one of those releases that’ll have you clicking the ‘buy’ button faster than Paris Hilton does on copies of her own album.

We’ll call its style “liquid” – even if incestuous drum & bass DJs insist that all D&B is the same and that sub-genres don’t exist.

So, establishing that ‘Reach Out’, whilst not particularly-originally named, is a mellow type of track, let’s now describe what makes it such a hit.

A tasty and well-engineered jazz break (that skitters in syncopated fashion) builds up its backbone, and is surrounded by a smooth rolling sub and a bizarre, filtered vocal pad.

God knows where the pad came from, but it works a treat, and you can hear very bizarre, subtle atmospheres wriggling and resonating behind it.

Atlantic Connection’s sonic mastery doesn’t stop there, because they throw in all sorts of blinking ‘put-the-coin-in-the-slot-in-Vegas’ samples… all perfectly pitched and placed.

So to round off, expect a brilliant, obscure vocal that every other drum & bass producer has missed in the last 10 years — but that Atlantic Connection nailed.

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