Trouble (Wink Edit) - Tom Pooks

The 20: October 2007

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Featured Review #03

Trouble (Wink Edit)

Tom Pooks [Ovum]

#03 in this month's The 20

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: The 20: d'julz d'julz d'julz d'julz d'julz d'julz d'julz josh wink tom pooks

One day French DJ and producer Tom Pooks woke up and thought, ‘Sacrebleu! I think I’ve found ze perfect zound for dis electronic muzik’. And that sound was the noise that all little boys make when they play with their toy cars: ZeeeeOOOOOOOMMmmmmmmm!

Yes, ‘Trouble’ is built around the sound of a Formula 1 car zooming past at around 240 miles per hour.

A simple stripped down tech house groove interspersed with sexy vocal snippets jiggles and wobbles whilst the dancefloor feels the burn of Michael Schumacher ripping past in reverb.

It sounds like a recipe for a pile up on the first corner, but ‘Trouble’ is in fact a dancefloor destroyer that’ll grow on you.

You can blame Josh Wink for the addictiveness of this track – by slightly re-tweaking the sounds and adding a few special Winky FX he’s come up trumps once again with a crowd-pleasing tech house groover.

There’s also a D’Julz remix that cuts up the Formula 1 sample, and Tom Pooks and El Farouki’s original is an FX-laden beast.

Drop this at a party, and just wait for the dancefloor to scream out ‘ZeeeOOOOOoom’.