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C2C feat. Derek Martin – Happy

“A gospel song run through a turntable and a sequencer.”

Tom: Remember C2C?

Tim: Erm…

Tom: They’re the French turntablists I raved about a couple of weeks ago — and you were fairly nonplussed about — with ‘Down the Road‘.

Tim: Ah, yes, of course. What’s this then?

Tom: Well, here’s the next single: this has been out for ages in France, but the UK promotion’s just starting. Skip to 0:30 for the start of the track.

Tom: I don’t want to come on too strongly here, but this is my favourite track of the year so far.

Tim: Blimey.

Tom: It’s a gospel song run through a turntable and a sequencer; it’s like it taps straight into the musical-appreciation bits of my brain.

Tim: Hmm. Favourite track of the year, interesting. Not mine, but I certainly get what you like about it, because it really does have something of everything you need in a good get-up-and-go style track – it’s quickly movement, it’s got excitable vocals, nice squeaky-scratchy bits to think “ooh, that’s them, I like them”.

Tom: Frankly if this doesn’t want to make you dance like a loon — like a rather less professional version of the spectacular dancers in the video — I think there might be something wrong with you.

Tim: Well, it certainly passes the dancing in my chair test you presented last time, so that’s at least is one thing that’s not wrong with me. Good.

C2C – Down The Road

“This passes the “dancing in my chair” test so, so well.”

Tom: A bit of introduction here. C2C are not the southeastern rail company, thankfully: they’re a French turntable group. So their shtick is to take old tracks — in this case, Mississippi bluesman Eddie Cusic’s You Don’t Have To Go — and shift them into something… else. And this is one hell of a remix.

Tom: This passes the “dancing in my chair” test so, so well.

Tim: Hmm. Well, I like the thing with the skateboard and the tyre, that was quite good.

Tom: It’s already reached number 1 in France; it probably won’t do quite as well in the UK but, bloody hell, it deserves to. The new album seems just as promising. Really, I’ve got nothing to add to this: I just bloody love it.

Tim: I know reading YouTube comments is often described as the first step to madness, but I do like the bluntness of the guy who just wrote “this is honestly the worst sound ive ever heard”. It’s not that bad – I think I’m just having trouble trying to work out what it’s meant to be.

Tom: You remember Mint Royale’s Singin’ In The Rain remix? It’s a bit like that. Hell, it’s even got a boots-and-cats beat going on in the background if you can’t quite get it.

Tim: The loud bit in the second half is quite listenable, but the rest of it just seems a little uninterpretable. Hmm.

Tom: Speak for yourself. I’ll keep dancing in my chair.