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Weekly mp3 #95: Major Lazer - Cash Flow (Classixx Glass-Bottom Dub)

Mad Decent, Major Lazer's label, have this track up for download under the title What did they use of the original Classixx remix!!!" Punctuation aside, it's a fair question. Some little bits of vox. Same chords?

A downtempo house beat starts things off. In comes a bit of synth bass and some absurdly big handclaps. Breakdown to some echoing vox and ... hey, whaddaya know? It's a downtempo house track. Plenty of different parts weaving around - lots of 80s synth vibes. Some distant slide guitar and arpeggiating synths combine at times to make something suspiciously like Tangerine Dream's oft-sampled / covered / re-hashed 'Love on a Real Train'.

As this track has close to zero to do with Major Lazer, I'm not even going to bother linking to them. If you like this at all you'll be more interested in following up on Classixx who are two guys from LA. Throughout 2009 I listened to a lot of this kind of gear and I reckon Classixx actually write decent licks (lixx?) more often than most.

Labels: music, weekly mp3

Posted at 6:00 PM