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High Contrast NuBreed | Cat# HCNB001
Released: Friday February 1st 2008 / Tuesday February 5th 2008 (Vinyl)
Buy here: https://www.beatport.com/track/undone-feat-sari-rank-1-remix/482942
Buy here: https://www.beatport.com/track/undone-feat-sari-rank-1-remix/482942
01. | 133 BPM | G#Min | 07:42 | Rank 1 Remix
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What's funny here is that this remix is completely unrelated to my weakest subject, it was actually tied to my strongest! I was doing my History homework as I pressed play on ASOT #329. I had seen the tracklist beforehand: Rank 1 for TOTW with a new remix! In a strong first hour that featured some tasty tracks by the likes of SvD, Jaytech,Starkillers and Max Graham, Rank 1's Remix for Undone would be dropped as the tenth track. It was not quite what I expected but it hit the spot all the same!
Rank 1 Remix
Funky. As. Sh*t. That's how it starts. That pokey synthline, the kick, the subtle hat that goes with all of that... I just couldn't stop bopping my head as Armin mixed it in. Also, remember that Undone was being mixed into Jaytech's Pepe Garden which in itself has an incredibly funky bassline/percussion combination. Armin took groove and squared it with even more groove!! It was December but he was going out on a limb to make us taste Spring/Summer already. One of the most memorable transitions in earlier ASOT history imo. Sari's voice starts singing before being used as a lyrical loop with a pad resembling a whistle kind of sound alongside her. The bassline is deep yet subtle as the track progresses and leaves behind the melody patterns for a bit. Where could it be headed? An Electro-driven climax? Strings? When all of a sudden, in the track's most quiet bit we hear "Ladies and gentlemen... This is... The Tune Of The Week!". Sari returns and brings the melodies with her, whistle pad among them as the bassline is backed by a gritty main lead synth which would turn out to be a bit of a relative to And Then...'s main lead. A gentle string layer is also sneekily added to the mix before Sari goes into loop mode again as the main lead does a short loop repeat of its own. Once again, all elements return in melody mode before the track commences its breaking down process and all elements start fading one by one. Once I ripped this track from the whole episode, I think I played it about 4-5 times a day for the first two weeks or so? I do recall that this is a Rank 1 production I replayed a record amount of times in just one month. It was THAT addicting...
Compared to the original, the melody and overall mood here is very different... Upbeat, happy even. The original was more nostalgic. I always wondered how the guys came up with it. But at some point a couple of years back I started paying attention to Sari's singing, the notes she hits so to speak. Could it be... Rank 1 ignored the original melody and instead followed Sari's voice for the melody?? I've never really asked either of the guys if this is true but from what I can hear myself, it seems plausible they extracted their main motif from the singer, rather than having the singer fit their melody!
vs. the Original
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Final verdict
Once again Rank 1 decided to take things down a completely different road than the original creators. And once again it l.e.d. (pun intended :D) to a delicious remix that got its fair share of replay button loving from me over the years. To this day it gets me going and groovin' when I decide to play it. Absolutely delicious. The original by contrast, for all its melancholia, never really got me to appreciate it beyond the 3/5 star threshold (or "decent' if you prefer that score in words). I guess the Rank 1 Remix was just far too addicting for me to bother with the original beyond the few times I heard it on ASOT.
NOTE | This review is part of a larger Retrospective feature:
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Rank 1 Remix
Funky. As. Sh*t. That's how it starts. That pokey synthline, the kick, the subtle hat that goes with all of that... I just couldn't stop bopping my head as Armin mixed it in. Also, remember that Undone was being mixed into Jaytech's Pepe Garden which in itself has an incredibly funky bassline/percussion combination. Armin took groove and squared it with even more groove!! It was December but he was going out on a limb to make us taste Spring/Summer already. One of the most memorable transitions in earlier ASOT history imo. Sari's voice starts singing before being used as a lyrical loop with a pad resembling a whistle kind of sound alongside her. The bassline is deep yet subtle as the track progresses and leaves behind the melody patterns for a bit. Where could it be headed? An Electro-driven climax? Strings? When all of a sudden, in the track's most quiet bit we hear "Ladies and gentlemen... This is... The Tune Of The Week!". Sari returns and brings the melodies with her, whistle pad among them as the bassline is backed by a gritty main lead synth which would turn out to be a bit of a relative to And Then...'s main lead. A gentle string layer is also sneekily added to the mix before Sari goes into loop mode again as the main lead does a short loop repeat of its own. Once again, all elements return in melody mode before the track commences its breaking down process and all elements start fading one by one. Once I ripped this track from the whole episode, I think I played it about 4-5 times a day for the first two weeks or so? I do recall that this is a Rank 1 production I replayed a record amount of times in just one month. It was THAT addicting...
Compared to the original, the melody and overall mood here is very different... Upbeat, happy even. The original was more nostalgic. I always wondered how the guys came up with it. But at some point a couple of years back I started paying attention to Sari's singing, the notes she hits so to speak. Could it be... Rank 1 ignored the original melody and instead followed Sari's voice for the melody?? I've never really asked either of the guys if this is true but from what I can hear myself, it seems plausible they extracted their main motif from the singer, rather than having the singer fit their melody!
vs. the Original
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Final verdict
Once again Rank 1 decided to take things down a completely different road than the original creators. And once again it l.e.d. (pun intended :D) to a delicious remix that got its fair share of replay button loving from me over the years. To this day it gets me going and groovin' when I decide to play it. Absolutely delicious. The original by contrast, for all its melancholia, never really got me to appreciate it beyond the 3/5 star threshold (or "decent' if you prefer that score in words). I guess the Rank 1 Remix was just far too addicting for me to bother with the original beyond the few times I heard it on ASOT.
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