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+ Mike Dunn ft. The Beat Gorillaz: "The Boy Beats on His Drum" (the MD Remixes)
:: Dope Wax
Beat this shit with both hands! If you're a longtime reader, you know that MD first released this track on our WMC sampler in 2008. He told me a few months later that he had reports that it had hit in Amsterdam and now you can rock it too with these new mixes courtesy of Kenny Dope's Dope Wax imprint. Mike Dunn's Blackball Main Mixx is a solid rework with a moody spoken word (classic MD style) over a bouncy old school key riff. The instrumental rolls in that bridge-from-French-Kiss kind of way.

It isn't really instrumental, if only because it starts off with what I thought then and think now is the best set intro for a DJ that I've heard in ages. Cue siren: "Ladies and Gentlemen, you have 3 seconds to exit the building, otherwise, you'll be jacked to fuckin' death. Time's up." You can count on one hand the number of producers that could pull that off and Mike Dunn is at the top of the list.

 

+ Where Can I Find It?

Still in pre-release for the moment. -tm

 

+ Track Listing Duration Recommended
01: Mike Dunn BlackBall Main Mix 6:17 our pick
02: Mike Dunn BlackBall Instrumental 6:17 our pick

 


:: posted jan 11 by terry matthew in music reviews, november 2009 issue
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