| DJ Jack - "Made In Brazil" Review |
 DJ Jack is back on Five AM after his amazing BBC Radio 1 supported remix of Danilo Ercole's 'Sea Shadow'. He’s back with a brand new solo single with jaw dropping remixes from fellow Brazilians Fabio Stein and Danny Oliveira. Jack is the founder and manager of Energy BR, the first and only nucleus of trance music in Brazil. They are sending the message out to Latin America with full effect and now its reaching us here with some incredible new flava! Read on for more details about this tune....
The track ‘Made in Brazil’ is a fusion of Brazil’s uplifting and bodily creative Capoeira with slick Samba touches. It’s a refreshing and mind inspiring composition that really relates the hot intense passion felt by these guys for not only their heart folk music but deeply rooted into the gritty mezzanine of tech trance. And so the Energy.br team strike again. DJ Jack mix takes us on a bass rolling journey through tribal beats and samba touches, building up the energy with joyous shouts of “Braaazzilllll” flourishing. Real carnival atmosphere and an amazing originality of combinations. This is how music should be constructed! Fabio Stein sorts us a Samba Freak remix and it takes on irresistibly addictive drumming and layering out nailing sounds. An extraordinary new level of dance floor freak out. Ferocious hammering, tribal mish-mash ultra samba-fied and rocking on with a scoring style vox scream that soars over the stylish dance showdown. Danny Oliveira squelches down and wraps on a mechanized gauze to skin the beast. The digital funk console in full array of main switches ripping out the wires and twisting them up to hacked new kaos routing of music, gushing funk like neutron stars. TheTranceArena.com's verdict:DJ Jack - "Made In Brazil" (Original Mix): This mix kicks off with plenty of guts - starting off with a real Samba vibe as bongo's and percussive elements form the intro. It starts with just the bongo's, but as the intro progresses, kick drums and hi-hats all come into play to give it a bit more bite. After the intro, the strangest breakdown i've ever heard kicks in! There's no hands-in-the-air moments with big melodic synths and chords - instead, the bongo's come back into play to make you feel like your standing in the streets of Rio de Janeiro rather than the Dance Valley music festival! After the breakdown, the bassline comes back into play - and the bongo's, plus the occasional cowbell, accompany it to form the main part of the tune. I really don't know what to make of this tune - its very bizarre and possibly the oddest thing i've ever heard! I couldn't imagine it working in a set because it wouldn't mix particularly well with anything, plus I think it would seriously kill and low the set has built up - however, something about it is quite catchy and appealing. I also felt that the production quality wasn't as strong as it could have been - I felt that it sounded a little basic, and perhaps needed a bit of 'smoothening out around the edges' before it was released. Very bizarre, yet very catchy too. 6/10 DJ Jack - "Made In Brazil" (Fabio Stein's Samba Freak Remix): Fabio Stein's Samba Freak Mix: I've always been a big fan of Fabio Stein. He has a very distinct bassline that, as soon as you hear it, instantly sounds out as being his work. Fabio, again, in this remix, has added his trademark sound to it. His pounding bassline comes in to play instead of the bongo's, and a few kick-drums and hi-hats help to give it a more energetic bassline that was lacking from the original mix. Unfortunately, despite all the promise of saving this tune after the disappointment of the Original mix, I felt that it didn't really go anywhere - there isn't really much of a tune to it - its more a case of powerful basslines and odd Samba-vibed elements which sound quite odd. Again, like the original mix, it doesn't really fit a genre - its not Trancey, its definately not Techno, and it certainly doesn't fit the House category. I really think this would struggle to fit in a set without sounding out of place and altering the flow. Its very rare I dislike a tune i'm sent to review - even if its not my style musically, I always look beyond that and pick out the elements that I think other people would like - but unfortunately, i'm really struggling with this tune. 6/10 DJ Jack - "Made In Brazil" (Danny Oliveira Treatment Remix): Danny Oliveira Treatment Remix: This remix starts off with the best bassline so far - plenty of guts, which, reminds me of a speeded up version of the old Faithless bassline used in their late 90's productions. Unfortunately, like the previous two mixes, that's about all it has to offer. There still isn't much of a melody, the breakdown doesn't really offer much, and apart from percussive elements in-between, the main part of the tune doesn't offer much either. Again, Danny Oliveira is a producer i've been really impressed with in the past, but on this occasion, I was left very disappointed. I've reviewed some great Five AM releases in the past - they've been one of the most consistent labels around for consistently, but so far, this tune has been by far the weakest. All three mixes sound very random, although if you like tunes with a unique sound, then this might be worth checking out - I can guarantee you won't find another tune with a similar style to this! 6/10
Release Date: 15th November 2007 |
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