Singleversity #61

Audiversity’s weekly column on music we stumble across during our sonic adventures. No random numbers, just straight audio goodness.

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Been cruising Muxtape this week to see what some of my friends have posted on their respective pages. One in particular recently posted a mix that features The Zombies and their take on George Gershwin's 1935 hit, "Summertime." Literally, this song (from the Charleston, SC-set opera Porgy and Bess) has been covered dozens of times by artists as far reaching as George Benson and, yeah, Sublime. This live version performed in The Zombies' British homeland was recorded somewhere in the immediate aftermath of both their self-titled 1964 debut and a "recent Beatles competition," of which the St. Albans quintet were presumably the winners.

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In lieu of that cumbia article he recently generated for The Fader, I've been dusting off some old snippets that Jace Clayton aka DJ /rupture has produced for us in the past. It's easy to remember he writes Mudd Up! but so easy to forget that he also produced one of the decade's great full-lengths in 2004's Special Gunpowder. With assistance from Ghislain Poirier and oud/violin player Abdel Hak, "Taqasim" is a late-album highlight showcasing Clayton's far-reaching tastes in an album packed with grooves from all of his globetrotting adventures. Still a thing to behold four years on.