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Lee Burridge
24:7
(Global Underground)
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Fans of Lee Burridge’s soulful 2001 Global Underground: NuBreed CD will likely be surprised by the cool, acid-and-breakbeats style of this two-CD DJ mix session. Gone almost completely is Global Underground’s profound house music, the warm exultation and blissed-out tenor-voiced chants that placed Burridge firmly, one would have thought, in the Junior Vasquez/Carl Cox camp of disco DJs. Instead, one finds music with an edgy, jocular tone, full of sardonic riffs and caricatures of melody, chillier than the usual temperature of Paris "lounge" music but no less jazzy. Burridge sounds a lot like Stéphane Poumpougnac, whose smirky expressions and Brazilian riffs hold sway over soulful house in dance-music clubs right now. What remains is Burridge’s superb remix skills. Whether you like his song selections hardly matters; what counts in these two sets is his instinct as a quick-cutter and an overlay maker. He can cut from beats to voices, from atmospherics to beats, or from one melody to an entirely different one without puzzling or misleading the dancer. He makes the music fly, or soar, or tumble, or slide, wherever his fancy leads him — and his fancy always gets it right.
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