Here it is, our remix for Kraak & Smaak‘s Let’s Go Back.
It features the vocals of house legend Romanthony, who you might know from Daft Punk’s One More Time.
We were huge fans of Romanthony’s work since he released some really nice and dusty house tracks in the early 90′s, which sounded like a clash between Mr. Fingers and Prince on acid.
When the guys from Kraak & Smaak played us their new single, we instantly heard that old school Romanthony sound we love so much, so we knew we had to remix it.
One of the tracks that appeared on our House Masters compilation is René Et Gaston – Vallée De L’armes. We already made this track back in 1993, but some 2 years ago our buddy Laidback Luke did a really bad ass bootleg.
We kinda forgot about it, but with the whole House Masters thing going on, and especially with all of the support you guys are giving to The Good Men – Give It Up 2011 edit (which is doing really wel at Beatport!), we thought it might be a good idea to give you something back and share this bootleg with you!
Now, all you have to do is press the ‘Pay With A Tweet’ button below, sign in with your Twitter of Facebook account and click ‘Post Tweet To Download’. This way you spread the word, it makes you look cool, and your friends won’t miss out on this bootleg.
We had lots of fun making this track because it has super weird voices, heavy drums and fat basses. But also because we had two young guys (that go by the name of Firebeatz) in the studio who were using strange language, were jumping around like puppy’s, didn’t like fruit tea and brought us some cake.
We used to call ourselves The Good Men, and in early 1992 we made Give It Up.
Back then our studio was very basic. In fact it was a bedroom with nothing more than a bed and a few pieces of gear. For example our mixer was a dusty Boss BX 8 mixer with only a few channels and bass & treble knobs. We played the chords on a Roland D-20 that Dobre bought with some help from grandma, who was a big supporter! She had a huge stereo and would play al our records to her friends, haha! We also borrowed this EVS-1 synth module from Olav Basoski to play the arpeggio bell sounds. One day our German neighbor got angry because he didn’t like living next to dudes making house with loud drums, so he climbed up to the gutter and started banging on our window. That didn’t stop us of course.
When we gave the track to a then well known Amsterdam record label they rejected it, because they thought it needed more snaredrums or something like that. So then we went to another record company that didn’t want to put it out either, but eventually we got them convinced to give us our own label (Fresh Fruit Records) and put it on the B-side.
Who needs a G6 anyway? (ca 1993)
Then the record blew up big time and things got really crazy for us. We suddenly ended up from going to school and being unemployed to playing all over Europe, Japan and America and being driven in a limousines. That was quite something to say the least.
Now, after 19 years it was time to rerelease the song as part of our House Masters compilation. Now what do you do with a track that was so huge en so recognizable? Well, not much. We kept all the original ingredients and just did some editing, and added some oomph and swooshes. And you guys seem to like it, as it’s now climbing the beatport charts!
Here it is, our remix for Kraak & Smaak‘s Let’s Go Back.
