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6 Responses to “Toto – Africa”

1. 1 IAN FRANCE
   2009/05/03 at 3:18 am

   I just got to say, you guys post some of the best music on this blog. Great song, thanks for the download.

2. 2 Spooky Electric
   2009/05/03 at 9:21 pm

   Feel My Bicep has quickly become my favorite blog. Keep up the good work.

3. 3 hprice
   2009/05/05 at 11:23 am

   One of the best songs ever. Keep em coming guys this has got to my favourite blog xx

4. 4 Jonitch
   2009/07/06 at 9:25 am

   Toto – Africa (D double J rings of Jupiter remix)
   http://johanblomgren.se/archives/Africa%20(D%20double%20J%20rings%20of%20Jupiter%20remix).mp3

5. 5 sunny d
   2009/07/07 at 10:24 am

   Well… I have an enormous soft spot for the Toto original, from way back when I was a wee slip of a lad, and I love my edits too – but I have to say I approached this with some trepidation… as an AOR classic it isn’t really a natural candidate for edit treatment, while simultaneously presenting the truly daunting challenge of developing a well-loved original without either spoiling it or crossing into “cheese” territory.

   I’m sorry to say that this edit just doesn’t quite pull it off (IMO, obv). The opening percussion starts very promisingly, but the familiar synths and vocals drop far too soon and are layered over with so much material they are very quickly subsumed in a terrible mush. The strategy needs to be to strip this down and tease it out sooo slowly, building imperceptibly to the synth drop, with much more dub and echo.

   I fear only a Krivit, a Terje or a Mudd really has the chops to pull off such an ambitious edit as Toto’s Africa with any hope of success… but credit to the ambition of this mixer for trying I suppose.

6. 6 feelmybicep
   2009/07/07 at 10:27 am

   I agree there are sometimes even the great editors would walk away from a challenge like this.