- Is it too facile to consider this Dennis Ferrer's yang to "Hey Hey"'s yin? It's super-obvious, right? Yet if there's more to it than that—there always is—there's still something to say for an artist so adept at getting everyone to sing along, and then turns around and releases something as subterranean and acid-tracky as "The Red Room." And puts Kyle MF Hall on the flip. Because he can.
Ferrer's "Obj Vocal Mix" is spurred along by conga accents and pulsating 303s, but Dawn Hulton's vocal is arty-spiky in a way that brings to mind post-punk and its more recent descendants as well as above-it-all Grace Jones-style ice-diva-dom. Ferrer keeps moving the furniture around to show off different facets of his multi-lined groove.
And on the B-side, Hall's "MeMix" goes . . . fidget-house?! Not quite, but the stuttering vocal snippet ("Wuh-w-w-wh-wh-well!") isn't that far removed from mid-'00s Switch. The groove is, though—comfortably flat four with springy accents whose glitchy touches (including those vocals) are absorbed by the kick drum, and thus easy on the ear.
Tracklist A The Red Room (Obj Vocal Mix)
B The Red Room (Kyle MF Hall MeMix)