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Barton - Take Me Up

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From Isaac McCalla, for About.com

Barton - Take Me Up

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This track is dark, pornographic, and eccentric. Manny's mix really explores pitch shifting and the hi-hat while he works out a down-and-dirty Latin groove. This mix swirls in late night, sweaty dub atmosphere. In contrast to the darkness, Manny introduces a playful, childlike melody line. Vocally, it's a coin flip on whether this is a porn-like delivery or something like a horror flick. At any rate, it's a deep and quirky circuit groove.

Kupper keeps a Latin-tinged feel with some simple go-go bells and sustains a deep house groove with a simple funk bassline which transmogrifies into the lead synth and back to a bassline again. Again, Barton's vocals are on the ominous side. Kupper follows the lyrical message of "Take Me Up" by raising the melodies and chords up out of the depths before settling back into a deep groove.

The Dark extended mix, fittingly, goes in a shadowy direction and features robotic techno de-tuned melodic stabs. The musical chord lifting is taken to the extreme here as the synths rise to impossible notes and then ebb back into low-pitched oddity. The Reflux mix is the most minimally techno of the batch. And possibly the most twisted as well. This one was no doubt made for late night darkened rooms and not for the faint of heart.

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