Archive for January 9, 2009
Still a sucker for pretty songs
Every week, I have the honor and privilege (or burden, depending on the week) of previewing somewhere between 200 and 300 new tracks, which once you remove duplications for remixes of the same song, equates to between 75 and 100 songs. I’m picking what goes into rotation on iDanceRadio.fm, and what I want to spin in my own DJ sets, and needless to say, there’s a lot of variety of approaches, styles, levels of quality, and so on.
There are a lot of things that can make a song stand-out, but “beauty” is one of them. I suppose it comes from my liking emotional songs my entire life; I like music that makes me feel something. But well-written, well-produced songs that are just “pretty,” whether the vocal or the production, always register.
One recent example comes from Italy’s Alice Edun and Spanish producer Oscar Salguero. I know Edun (actually as just “Edun,” too) from her 2007 smash hit, Put ‘Em Up, which was a worldwide dance success. I know Salguero from his work with my friends at CAPP Records, most notably on some of the Rikah tracks, which is what initially caused me to listen to this track.
But when I did, I found an uplifting, emotional, and well, beautiful song with amazing songwriting, and a vocal that shines through like a flashlight during a power outage.
I don’t know who actually wrote the track (I suspect it was Salguero), but it’s one that’s definitely worth checking out. It’s in-rotation on the radio station, and it’ll be a part of my DJ sets for some time to come.
