Shingaling

Shingaling

Jean Claude Ades, VIncent [Great St...

20 May, 2008 | 11.09AM

• Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: jean claude ades, martin eyerer, rainer weichhold, shingaling, vincent

It’s time to shake your shingaling to the sounds of this festive Jean Claude Ades and Vincent number.

This is a very commercial electro house track suited to the more unforgiving dance floors.

Featuring what sounds like a huge salsa hook, the commerciality inside this production is quite stark considering that it’s electro house, a genre that usually shies away from large samples like this.

It’s built from a whole array of harmonious elements - Spanish-sounding horn, acoustic bass and exotic percussion.

In fact, anyone who has watched Spanish football on Sky Sports 1 will be quite familiar with this style - it’s pretty much exactly the same as its theme song!

If this were the theme tune to a football team, it would be Real Madrid, then.

Due to Real Madrid’s Brazilian contingent, this track conjures memories of that Nike advert featuring the entire Brazilian team with the similarly-sounding ‘Mais Que Nada’ (’More Than Nothing’ in Portugese) as its soundtrack.

When everything starts properly in ‘Shingaling’, you can tell that the sample was literally a sample and not a live arrangement, because the minimalist 4/4 kicks and friendly-toned, resonant bassline are a world apart from what came before.

The contrast works though - the bass is thick and juicy.

Play this one at those more commercial, higher-paying nights to strike gold amongst the crowd.

It’s well worth picking up the Rainer Weichhold remix too.

This is far more underground and, to put it bluntly, cooler.

It takes the sprawling sample of the first track, chops it up, and envelopes everything in moody, tight production.

This totally changes the context in which the upbeat, original sample is played, mutating it into something more haunting.

Reverberant percussion ticks away like a doomsday clock throughout, partnered with some distorted, rolling, bleak synths.

The build-up will definitely bring tears to the dilated pupils of the dance floor massive.

This is special tech house, so check it out immediately.

Finally, we have a minimal remix by Martin Eyerer.

It’s similar to the aforementioned remix, but with some very subtle, lucid arpeggiators nestled in the background.

A more hopeful, resonant synth plays out the main melody, which gets a tad repetitive after a while.

All in all, there’s a lot going for this triple release - there’s something for everybody, as the cliché goes.

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