Trans Afro Express (Gerd Janson 'Dance' mix) - (6:47)
124 BPM Trans Afro Express (Gerd Janson 'Dance' instrumental mix) - (6:47) 124 BPM
Trans Afro Express (Ricardo Villalobos '242 Free' remix) - (10:32) 130 BPM
Review: As expected, Rekids has assembled a crack team of remixers to put their stamp on Jerome Sydenham, Fatima Njai and Mario Punchard's brilliant Afro-house-goes-electro cover of Kraftwerk's 'Trance Europe Express'. Gerd Jansen steps up first, delivering vocal and instrumental takes that brilliantly re-imagine the track as a Moroder-influenced, retro-futurist disco-house treat (think sequenced bass, Chic-style guitar licks, punchy drums and sweeping synth-strings). Naturally, Ricardo Villalobos takes a totally different approach, crafting a wonky-but-bouncy new rhythm out of Punchard's percussion and his own medical-grade kick-drums, before adding all manner of mind-mangling noises. It's one of his funkier reworks of recent times, but still formidably out-there and unusual. That's a great thing, by the way - it's a hugely impressive rework.
from $1.89REKIDS 186
10 Sep 21
Disco/Nu-Disco