New Music Review: Deepgroove & DJ Clock
In the last of our feature reviewing Soul Candi’s latest releases, Dawn Penny gets strict and demands the most from our beats. Sharpile for the words as always!
Truth presents In the Club mixed by Deepgroove
6 Beats out of 10
The first time I listened to “Truth presents In the Club” I was at home on a Saturday night, making supper with a friend. Needless to say, we didn’t finish cooking and ended up going out instead. The two producers Lee Pattison and Grayson Shipley have always made it their mission to get you on the dance floor. And do they do it this time with “Truth presents In the Club” you ask? Well, in a word, yes. Their latest club mix has this nice mix of different subgenres of house; hip house, vocal house, acid house, deep house, funky house and a touch of hard house as well. It most certainly is a moving club mix and can get you revved up for a night out on the town. Get it or not? I’d say yeah, get it.
The First Tick – DJ Clock
3 Beats out of 10
As I sat and listened to DJ Clock’s “The First Tick”, I gazed at my watch and it was 5 past his career. You laugh but I’m being serious. Firstly the name DJ Clock just isn’t ‘big time’ material, but that’s beside the point. His music has a monotony that would put you to sleep if it wasn’t so disruptive to listen to. He lacks individuality, originality and downright listenability – which I have on good authority as being the main ingredients to having musicality. And really I think if you’re gonna sample a track, you need to either make it as good as the original track or better, there’s no room for ‘ok’. He did a rendition of Mika’s “Relax, Take it easy” and he killed it! No, not in that head bopping kinda way, he actually put it six feet under ground. DJ Clock needs to go back in time and rethink releasing something this below par.
