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Drums, bass and vibes
David Boomah feat Rowpieces 'Wish Upon a Star (Battery remix)' (Forward Ever Recordings)
“I don’t need a shooting star,” trills David Boomah on the original mix of this bumper-remix package single. But what he does need, it seems, is a brutal dismemberment of the track via Metalheadz hypesters Battery. Viciously taut slabs of concrete bass thunder into each other, wrapped tight around threshing snares and smeared in scissoring synth trails, with the tech-stepping maelstrom occasionally relenting for long enough for Boomah’s angelic tones to glide back in. It shouldn’t work, but it does – because both artists can do no wrong right now. Check N-Type getting in on the action, too, with a garage remix.
8/10
https://play.spotify.com/track/7bzvfcN4NjUESedhQ5LvI0
