CD REVIEWSidestepper: The Buena Vibra Sound System(Palm Pictures)Remixes often go overboard in their attempts to remodel (or, depending on who's opining, destroy) the original tune. The new CD from Sidestepper does it right, not only giving us 11 tracks of hot Columbian sounds mixed with ragga-style toasting and booty-shaking beats. Nine of the 11 tracks are (like this song) previously unreleas...
CD REVIEWSidestepper: The Buena Vibra Sound System(Palm Pictures)Remixes often go overboard in their attempts to remodel (or, depending on who's opining, destroy) the original tune. The new CD from Sidestepper does it right, not only giving us 11 tracks of hot Columbian sounds mixed with ragga-style toasting and booty-shaking beats. Nine of the 11 tracks are (like this song) previously unreleas...
Sidestepper (or Richard Blair as his mother knows him) is a UK born producer/musician, whose goal is to mix Colombian rhythms and melodies with UK/Jamaican beats and grooves. This comes from his 2003 Palm album 3am: In Beats we Trust. Only the vocals are originally Colombian , and I've been unable to ascertain who the performers are; the backing track is British created. Does this tune work? To...