In the spirit of Dewaele Brothers (Soulwax/2manyDJs) and James Murphy's (LCD Soundsystem) Despacio being a big highlight among music festivals, I was wondering what a Chemical Brother playlist would look like if they took the helm of Despacio.
For the record, I have not experienced Despacio, but from what is described, all of these tracks on this spotify playlist have been performed in its existence: spotify playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6MrTfCEpy4Tb9o2JSARMQY)
From that list, my assessment of a Despacio track would be something that:
- Exists on vinyl
- A dynamically rich track that that can utilize the full high fidelity speaker setup they have
- Not exclusive to dance or club mixed type tracks
- Have a personal influential quality
With that in mind, what do
YOU think would be on a Chemical Brothers Despacio playlist?
Some tips I would give what would make a good track for this playlist:
- Tracks where they have borrowed or sampled music from
- Tracks that can be heard in their DJ mixes
- Tracks that they have specifically spoken about
- Tracks that have close proximity to their career and thus likely to be a Chemical Brother friendly track.
I'll start us off :
Kylie Minogue - 'Slow'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amvK5maWlTc
Kraftwerk - 'Europe Endless'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms6kC-3yq0k
Freestyle - 'Don't Stop the Rock'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3BQbVPL9Fo
The Bugaloos - 'The Senses of Our World'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y75HzOXrwy0
What you guys got? I'll try and keep us updated with a masterlist.
That early version of "It Began In Afrika" that was just the vocal sample over a montage of famous breakbeats might be a good pull.
(btw, anyone know where the DJ set they played that in can be found? iirc it was a New Year's show and they also played "Free Nelson Mandela" at some point)