Manuel Tur feat. Holly Backler - Most of This Moment

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  • It's never good when melisma sounds like the product of exhaustion or pain, as it does in "Most of this Moment." Actually, pain can be a righteous catalyst, but in this case, on top of tiredness, it's more like mild discomfort—something nagging and bothersome but not enough to register as anything but just bland. Sounding weirdly like she's preoccupied with a bunch of errands she has to run later, vocalist Holly Backler does house-diva duty in service of some fatefully fizzy words: "Let's make the most of this moment, tonight." (That last part, presumably, helps differentiate the track from others that celebrate moments worth seizing, say, 48 hours prior, or two weeks from Tuesday.) It's bad, but fair enough: it's house, and avowedly old-school house at that. Yet Backler isn't done any favors by a track—courtesy of Germany's Manuel Tur—that lumbers along with a lot of weight and very little character. There's no air in it, to the point where the simple rising-note sequence and the big, meaty beat squeeze out all the deep house soul that it seems to be going for. Tur's own dub mix of it does better by cutting the vocals to smaller bits and pushing everything into a sort of zoned-out state. That state figures as well into the 13-minute "Original Full Length Demo Mix," which benefits greatly from room to stretch out and changes of scenery through a few different rises and falls. Backler sounds sharper when less fully in focus, too, which could stand as something of a lesson.
  • Tracklist
      A1. Most of This Moment A2. Most of This Moment (Tuff City Kids remix) B1. Most of This Moment (MT''s dub) B2. Most of This Moment (Blakkat acid mix)
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