It creates a tension that the power-tool guitar couldn’t possibly generate on its own, sounding devoid of human touch as it does. Michaelangelo Matos: I think what works about this for me is the way that at no point does the vocal go in lockstep with the riff and beat. When the plug suddenly gets pulled at the end it feels like being given permission to breathe again. It’s surprising and exciting and actually a little draining. Nneka sounds totally, compellingly mental in the chorus, falling over herself to get half-formed words out as the beats pile up behind her. Iain Mew: By no means does this remix all work - the chugging (nu-metal?) guitars initially come off slightly dated and very out of place - but when it does it’s really something.
The crashing guitars don’t gel with the singing, but the contrast between the sledgehammer approach of putting them on top anyway with the quieter, tense parts of the chorus is stark and effective. I’d give the original an 8 in this format, I can pass.Įdward Okulicz: Creepy, taut and hypnotic. The blend is never clarified and the resulting unfinished product is a colloid on a par with cold clam chowder. The Chase and Status remix undoes all that delicate anarchic balance with unnecessary bluntness and glammy rock guitar. It’s uneasy but powerfully thrusting you don’t know whether to dance or bob your head or cover your ears or what. The original “Heartbeat” is wonderful a hyperventilating soup of dub, rnb and dancepop.
John Seroff: I really quite like Nneka and expect great things from her in the near future her voice is unique and her globalblind approach to songwriting works like a pencil come to a fresh point. Pharrell Williamsĭrum’n’bass team help propel Nigerian singer to unlikely UK hit…Ĭhuck Eddy: So apparently the big controversy here (judging from what Frank Kogan told me) is whether this half-Nigerian, half-German singer’s current Brit-hit remix improves on her year-old non-remix, right? So I played them both, back-to-back, and I can definitively say that they both made me seasick.
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