Ben Sims - Disco Trix download free

The first in the highly successful series of Ben Sims' disco influenced floor killers, and the first one recorded in a new studio after the label has been put to a four year slumber. These tunes have been additionally engineered by Paul Mac and previously road tested by Ben himself, and the results show. The sound is much better compared to those early Hardgroove records, and while the tracks aren't that original, their true purpose reveals itself only on the dance floor, within a context of a driving DJ set.My favorite here, "Love Picks Me Up" samples Carolyin Harding's 1987 garage classic "Movin' On" to deadly effect. The vocal bits are shuffled, skillfully pitched to tip the hungry crowd over. A deadly percussion drop around the two minute mark and from there on it's containable madness. Remember that a tune like this one isn't supposed to stand on its own..."Work That Body" lifts about half of a verse plus the chorus hook line from Beni Arashiro's "Work That Body", a Japanese pop throw back to the good ol' disco days. SIms turns it into a techy funk affair, although the work that body vocal bit was already pretty trite even by 2008..."Ain't No Stoppin'" could be sampling the famous McFadden & Whitehead disco classic, or one its many covers or reworks, but then again I might as well just be wrong.Anyways, never really was a big fan of this sound, although I have to admit it works wonders in club land. The casual party goers - lacking a more appropriate term at the moment - go nuts when something like this gets tossed into the mix; heavy on the uplifting vocals, with filtered disco loops punctuated by well measured outbreaks of euphoria preceded by patient build-ups.