Sourced in "It's Over" by The Funk Master - main sample is at 1.56 - "not a little girl anymore / used to be the one I adore / but there's plenty more fish in the sea / for meee".
Also used is "too many times you made the plunder by tellin' me / You'll be with me"
Amazing how Chris Mack turns that "be with me" into this sensually sinister loop...
Vocal science! Vocal sorcery!
The mood and feel of the original is completely transformed
The track's slinky-and-twitchy production is incredible: a sort of sublime fussiness, a palsied panache.
Those dramatic slashes of.... strings? .... are like intensifications of the way staccato strings are used in Chic to slice across the soundscape.
It's avant-pop where the avant and the pop are equally strong
Flipside also fabulous
What do you know, the Funk Master tune was actually a Top Ten hit in the UK
Chris Macfarlane, true hardcore hero and Exhibit A in the Case for Nuumological Continuumity
A playlist I made of his entire uuurrrvvvv (near as dammit anyway - 164 tunes + remixes) running through hardcore, jungle, UKG, 2step
Wonder what he's doing now...
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