Comments on: LWE 2Q Reports: Top 5 Overrated Singles

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:16:07 +0000

Can’t help it but I love Dubfires Grindhouse remix. I guess it’s one of the best songs in 2008. I didn’t know what song it was till I read/listened it here. Heard it at Green & Blue, Frankfurt and it really rocked the floor. It made the floor go mad. Nice voice, stomping beat and when you heard it once, you’ll recon it again. great.
Great thread by the way. Much better than the always same charts.

By: Le K

Le K — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:25:03 +0000

I’m so glad to read that!

By: Onirik

Onirik — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:31:35 +0000

it is a great track! love it

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:20:58 +0000

‘Onandon’ makes an appearance in this incredible Mark-Henning mix if you fancy it:

http://www.mark-henning.net/barca_set/mark-henning_becool_barcelona_20012007.mp3

I can’t get enough of this mix at the moment.
And what a great track from Audio Werner regardless!

By: hutlock

hutlock — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:23:48 +0000

Oooooh! I was just playing Audio Werner’s Onandon the other night! He needs to put out some new music!

By: Onirik

Onirik — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:54:45 +0000

I agree for Garnier and Hugo, they’re not essentials for me.

Roar is more of a tool for me, I wouldn’t play it more that 2mins or so….However I would have suggested Bodzin’s “Puck” track as a substite.

About Orbitalife, at the very beginning I didn’t get it. It didn’t impress me that much, however since I heard in a club I’ve been enjoying it more and more. It’s such a pleasure to mix (try with Onandon from Audio Werner) and that little voice…hmmm…it’s gotta be an hypnotic anthem.

Am I gonna be the only one to defend GrindhouseFire ?!?! I think it’s a very powerful track. You should have seen the effect it had on a normally very quiet parisian crowd, people were almost jumping on top of each other . I’m not usually a fan of Dubfire’s prods/rmxs but I got hooked on this one.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:21:36 +0000

I vouch for “Roar.” I played it on top of Dettman’s “Lattice” at my club night last Wednesday and it sounded incredible. This drunk hair stylist was like, “Bring back the farty sounds!” I’m all for dance tracks that briefly, and tactfully, go overboard into noise territory… like Poni Hoax’s “Budapest.”

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:59:03 +0000

Dubfire’s new stuff bores me to tears, it just all sounds the same to me yet all the Beatport Top 10 whores don’t seem to notice. I’m not saying it’s a bad sound, I’m just saying he’s becoming almost as bad as Deadmau5 for relying on the same, fairly limiting, sound on all his remixes. The guy’s clearly got some talent, why can’t he push the boat out a wee bit?

By: krul

krul — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:29:22 +0000

completely agree on the sloop, that tune needs to die fast, I liked it the first time (although even then I thought it was pretty cheap), but it gets annoying so fast and it gets played so much.

I love the grindhouse tool, great to give another piece of wax some more “oomph” (ooh and tantakatan, shit, now thats a groove), but I honestly don’t know what went through matt’s head when he allowed dubfire to remix it. foghorn, pitched down vocals, and just about every other cliché in the book.. and damn, that part around 6min makes me cringe.

I don’t really have any problems with roar, sure its overplayed, but it is a really useful tool and much of the songs power depends on what you mix it with.

“The drawn out and searching tones at “Afrodiziac” mix’s core are promising, but soon find themselves buried under every organic percussion sound Garnier could fit without freezing his Mac.” – nuff said

And then there’s orbitalife . Well, it doesn’t get my vote as track of the year (yet), but you have to admit months after its release it still gets played a lot and this one has the lasting power my young padawan. Hypnotic, subtle, so much details.. perfectly mixable, and one lovely long breakdown = one hell of a track, gotta disagree with you there . And the other two tracks are just as good, if maybe a bit more straightforward.

looking forward to the next top 5

By: Will Lynch

Will Lynch — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:05:00 +0000

I gotta say, I’m just as dubious of dubfire as the next pretentious techno journalist, but the first time I heard his grindhouse remix was during Radio Slave’s set at Mutek, and it was a total show stopper. I recognize how cheesy it is, but any track that gets people going like that is kind of hard to deny. And for better or worse, hearing it without knowing whose remix it was probably put it in a more flattering light for me…