The Thick And Thin Of It All
Basic Operators, The Lazarus Man
LABEL: Galaktika Records | GLK057
GENRE: Deep House
RELEASED: 2015
MP3 DOWNLOAD SOURCE: WEB
BITRATE: 320kbps / 44100kHz / Full Stereo
TRACKS: 4
SIZE: 80.60 megs
4 TRACKS TOTAL
1. The Thick And Thin Of It All feat. The Lazarus Man (Acumen Remix) 7:01
2. The Thick And Thin Of It All feat. The Lazarus Man (Alexander Maier Remix) 8:39
3. The Thick And Thin Of It All feat. The Lazarus Man (Dub) 8:49
4. The Thick And Thin Of It All feat. The Lazarus Man (Original Mix) 8:48
Total Playtime: 33:17 min
Barcelona’s Galaktika imprint delivers ‘The Thick And Thin Of It All feat. The Lazarus Man’ from Basic Operators this July, backed with Acumen and Alexander Maier remixes, following their remix of Cosmic
Cowboys ‘Hydra’ on the label earlier in the year.
Basic Operators is the new collaborative guise of Thomas Sari and Alexander Maier, the latter has been involved in the industry for quite some time now with material on Moodmusic, Buzzin Fly, Hypercolour and Fresh Meat in his back catalogue. Thomas has been involved in the electronica scene also for years. If you have not caught one if his live performances or DJ sets, you might then enjoy listening to his original works and/or remixes which have been released by such labels as Blue Note, Missive Music, Timid Records & Night Drive Music.
Here we see the pairs newly formed alias return to the Galaktika imprint with a new single featuring The Lazarus Man. The young south-african artist needs almost no introduction. His distinctive and personal poethic vocals have already been featured on collaboration with Martin Stimming, Tigerskin, Andre Lodemann or The Djuma Soundsystem. For Thomas this release is a very intimate. Already 4 years ago, he co-wrote with The Lazarus Man the vocals to “The Thick and Thin of it All”, telling a very personal story of his life and is very delighted about the release and the collaboration with Alex.
The original mix of ‘The Thick And Thin Of It All’ kicks off the single and sees Basic Operators deliver an ethereal slice of deep house fuelled by airy pad melodies, organic rhythms, glitched out synth tones and a bumpy bass hook, all running alongside The Lazarus Man’s poetic vocal stylings. A ‘Dub’ versions follows and as the name suggest strips things back to it’s rawer, instrumental form.
On the latter half of the release French producer Acumen reshapes ‘The Thick And Thin Of It All’ into a bass heavy, stripped back number with growling sub bass tones, loose and evolving rhythms and tripped out snippets of the original’s vocal lines. One half of Basic Operators, Alexander Maier, then offers up his own interpretation of things, offering up a smoothly progressive take on things with drawn out melodies and shuffling drums to close the package.
Basic Operators ‘The Thick And Thin Of It All feat The Lazarus Man’ is out on Galaktika 20th July 2015.
