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Now that we found (music)
Sep. 4th, 2019 03:02 pmA slightly different post this time - four takes on the same track, over time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j9g1DTCJn0
The original. "Now That We Found Love" was first done by Motown heartthrobs The O'Jays in the early 1970s when disco was starting to creep in. You can hear the original Motown style, with strong lead vocals, backing chorus, artful orchestration, string sustains, and so on. The horn bits particularly echo some of the disco sounds of the time, but it's a pretty classic late Motown track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s5H9tpgbqw
A few years later, Martha Reeves did a slightly more R&B take on the track. Single female lead voice replaces the male harmonies, and electronic instruments replace the orchestration, including an annoying-to-me electric guitar. I remember how much I disliked this version compared to the original. Looking back now, it's an interesting historical take but I still think it's an inferior interpretation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNEgUPKxk7A
The song fades into obscurity until, like a large chunk of Motown, it gets revived by a hip-hop artist. In this case, it's Heavy D, whose version builds back off the original, doing what sounds today like an A|B mashup. The O'Jays voices are prominent, and they are spliced in counterpart to Heavy D doing his own rap. His flow interprets and takes off from the lyrics, but is its own original creation. Like the Reeves version, this one also subtracts out the orchestral bits but this time subs in a funky synth and some electronics for the horns.
https://soundcloud.com/sultanshepard/sultan-shepard-x-showtek-we-2
And now here we are 18 years after that and Sultan Shepard has a very modern EDM version of the track out. You can find his original and several remixes online. I picked this one, by Sidney Samson, because it showed up in an Afrojack set and I loved it. It's got an unabashed "funky-ass beat" and it shred-samples the O'Jays at higher speeds than they likely ever imagined. My biggest complaint, as with many of the modern tracks I like, is that at 2:40 it's just too short. I think it could easily be 50% longer and still be interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j9g1DTCJn0
The original. "Now That We Found Love" was first done by Motown heartthrobs The O'Jays in the early 1970s when disco was starting to creep in. You can hear the original Motown style, with strong lead vocals, backing chorus, artful orchestration, string sustains, and so on. The horn bits particularly echo some of the disco sounds of the time, but it's a pretty classic late Motown track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s5H9tpgbqw
A few years later, Martha Reeves did a slightly more R&B take on the track. Single female lead voice replaces the male harmonies, and electronic instruments replace the orchestration, including an annoying-to-me electric guitar. I remember how much I disliked this version compared to the original. Looking back now, it's an interesting historical take but I still think it's an inferior interpretation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNEgUPKxk7A
The song fades into obscurity until, like a large chunk of Motown, it gets revived by a hip-hop artist. In this case, it's Heavy D, whose version builds back off the original, doing what sounds today like an A|B mashup. The O'Jays voices are prominent, and they are spliced in counterpart to Heavy D doing his own rap. His flow interprets and takes off from the lyrics, but is its own original creation. Like the Reeves version, this one also subtracts out the orchestral bits but this time subs in a funky synth and some electronics for the horns.
https://soundcloud.com/sultanshepard/sultan-shepard-x-showtek-we-2
And now here we are 18 years after that and Sultan Shepard has a very modern EDM version of the track out. You can find his original and several remixes online. I picked this one, by Sidney Samson, because it showed up in an Afrojack set and I loved it. It's got an unabashed "funky-ass beat" and it shred-samples the O'Jays at higher speeds than they likely ever imagined. My biggest complaint, as with many of the modern tracks I like, is that at 2:40 it's just too short. I think it could easily be 50% longer and still be interesting.
