About 20 years ago, there was a label called Best Seven, with a freestyle sound "with main influences being Reggae/Dub and Soul" so it's great to see Daniel Best is still going strong with his contact's book as Best's Friends with a remix version of Cosmo Klein & The Campers' 'Soul Fiction'.
The "old" contact's book included favourites like Lightning Head (aka BiggaBush - my mentor), Joe
Dukie (Fat Freddy's Drop), The Black Seeds (these were a great live band), Frost & Wagner and my favourite, Eva Be (who is still DJing Cle Kahlcke / LoYoTo) so it's really exciting to see DJ,
Producer, all-round Berlin-based mover and groover Daniel W. Best is
still at it with Best's Friends Music.
The original Cosmo
Klein & The Campers' soul, pop, funk album came out last year but this time it's been given a Best Seven style remixed make-over including dancefloor
omni-present Art Of Tones (who have a track 'The Magic Count' on the 'Best Of 2024' EP that's also coming out today - see review HERE). 'Nothing But Love' has a Indo-biting dust vibe that could be a nice warm-up to 'The Magic Count'.
Keeping the New Zealand connections going,
the Berlin-based Kiwi, DJ & producer Philippa takes us on a Fat Freddy's Drop bounce on the dubby 'Life Back Home': and just to let you know, '& The Campers' came about as the original album was mostly recorded by Cosmo visiting his jazz mates around the country in his 1988 Hymer Camper (now you know this, you'll see loads of Hymer camper van conversions on the road).
The jazzy mates are most obvious on the Moods' remix of 'Head' and back to the reggae, 'I Do Love You' is remixed by the Frost outta
Wagner, Oliver Frost and it's very radio/commercial/hit friendly.
Talking of popular DJ Friction is well known in Germany being in 90s DMC DJ Battles and hip-hop band Freundeskrels but his remix of 'Nothing But Love' is a funker and comes with the instrumental version.
And when it comes to worldwide well known, we get 'Right Here, Right Now', the Opolopo remix and instrumental version. Sweden's Opolopo is regular remix name on YATM (see review HERE) has just released his own album with Angela Johnson. And perhaps it's because the title is not that 'Right Here, Right Now; (thankfully), the instrumental sounds brilliant.
This is such a varied album and in keeping with a German theme, if you said the originals have been Jazzanova-ed in
house, dance and reggae/dub, not even Thomas Tuchel could improve this.
Artist: Cosmo Klein & The Campers
Title: Soul Fiction Remixes
Release date: 29th November, 2024
Label: Best's Friends Music
Catalog Number: TBC
Format:Digital / Bandcamp
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