Son Kite - Aiwana Remixes

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Son Kite - Aiwana Remixes

 

 

Artist: Son Kite

Title: Aiwana Remixes

Label: Digital Structures

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. 09'23" Son Kite : Aiwana (DJ Nukem Rmx)

02. 08'02" Son Kite : Aiwana (Flow Mix)

03. 08'43" Son Kite : Aiwana (Original Version)

04. 08'47" Son Kite And Lisa Thelin : Aiwana (Downbeat Mix)

 

Review:

 

Aiwana was the track to finish the great second Son Kite album released last

year. It's has a beautiful morningish tribal feel, with the metallic Son Kite

percussion work, great darbuka sections and a levitating and caressing melody

in the back. The break and build up are present of course, and done just

beautifully. A great emotional tribal morning track with a lot of happiness.

Here we get three more versions of it, one already released and two new

refreshing ones.

It opens up with a remix by DJ Nukem, which gives the track a more hypnotic

atmosphere, really tribal and repetitive, this one will trance you and groove

you. Beautiful. Then it's Son Kite themselves with a new unreleased mix of the

original. The flow mix is just a full on melodic driving track, a real killer

full of emotions and a real sunrise hymn that I already wait to dance to in a

party. Than it's the original version and to finish things you get a vocal

downbeat mix released on the first Chillosophy. Starting and ending with a

heartbeat, this is a completely different interpretation to the sweeping

tribal morning frenzy of the original- "mass emotion of the beat"- fascinating

tale with amazing sounds giving me goose bumps, and great vocals.

Recommendation: Excellent- own it, for the floor, for home. Favorites: All.

[mahoney]

What I rescently read in an interview with Marcus and Seb they are a bit tired

of all the dark and hard progressive music released nowadays. This cd-release

proofs that, it´s 3 remixes of one of the most harmonic tracks from the Kites

?perspectives of?? album. It was one of my personal favourites on that album,

and if you haven´t heard the album version, don´t worry, that one is included

aswell (track 3, Original version). Track one is the Dj Nukem Remix which is

the most club-oriented track on this release. Hard pumping beat and the tribal

drums that you get in the original get´s some space on top. It´s not

superfast, but very very progressive with the female-voice swooching by (which

is the most significant thing from the original), good for your warm-up sets?

The second dance-oriented version is the Flow Mix, and this is a BOOMBB for

all dancefloors! It´s a remix by the Kites themself, and I couldn´t imagine

how wounderful it would feel on the floor hearing this before I first

experienced it. Hard, fast, tribal but still with the harmony that you get

from especially the original version. I can´t really imagine how they could

have done this track any better without changing the original to much. The

samples and voice,, sooo beautiful. Will leave you floating around the floor

with a big smile on the face, that´s the effect it had on me, perfect

building, perfect music. Enough said, the Original version is the

album-version. The softer version of the Flow remix, not that pumping, but

still very beautiful and tribal. The Downbeat mix, which you also can find on

the excellent Chillosophy comp. on the same label, is the laid-back one.

Irregular beats with all the harmonic swooching sounds and echoing effects

that you´ll get from the other tracks in one track. Laid-back melodies and

vocals and lyrics that fits perfectly by Lisa Thelin only makes it even more

enjoyable. Some waves hitting the beach ends this release, which I only can

say is high quality music, extremly proffesional production, espescially the

Flow Mix (!!!), the original and the downbeat scores high for me. If you

rather by it as a 12?, then it´s available, but you only get the two

previously unreleased tracks (Dj Nukem and Flow versions). Recommended for all

electronic music-lovers.