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 Ralph Sliwinski - “Pox Box” [Sushitec] (buy)
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I hadn’t heard much of Ralph Sliwinski until i bought his “Boutique Orange” EP earlier this year. I had heard EFDEMIN spinning it & i remember thinking to myself i need this record, so after a bit of digging around i eventually found out it belonged to Ralph. His latest sees him on the Sushitec label with a good track titled ”Pox Box”, which also comes with the now “obligatory” Johnny D remix, which is a bit of a let down to be quite honest, but more on that later. Ralph’s original version is the one you need to be reaching for, he has carved a fine piece of house music in Pox Box, but carved it using the the bare minimum & it works, it works well. It’s a shuffled percussion affair with warm pads & a really lovely vibe about it, the sort of record you could play early & it would be a good taster for whats to come later. Johnny D’s remix is quite the opposite. To me it just sounds like one long percussion track that never goes anywhere, in fact it sounds almost identical to his last release, like the build up from his last Oslo release, “Orbitalife”. It’s as if he has used the same parts from each track, but with the Pox Box remix he has failed to hide the fact that he has done this. This is definitely a tale of two cities. Go for the original. Johnny D’s remix would be better used as a tool or better still not at all.

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