- Best known for the tremendous Bedrock release "Pushin Too Hard" which was dropped into sets by well, everyone... Saints and Sinners a.k.a. Yoogie Van Bellen is back with what can only be called mo funky'.
Instead though, its called Purgatory... the supposed place in between Earth and Heaven. On the A we have the Saints in Hell version and the B flows on with the Sinners in Hell version. Built upon the same layers of funky shakers and wobbly basslines, the tracks deliver the funk nasty that your standard track can't come close to compete with. It's quite obvious Yoogie knows his percussion and uses this knowledge to drop percussion from all over the world into the mix. Congas, bongos, shakers, tambourines, wood blocks, and more unrecognizable sounds all happily dance around the sonic spectrum keeping the mellow backing launching forward at all times. Both tracks build on the basic principle, one a little darker and longer than the other, but equally as groovy. If you can't shake your ass to this, you might as well give it all up. Not only the percussion rocks, but the sounds are molded together perfectly. Bouncy chords swing in and out at perfect timing... funky bass moves in and out, warm sweeps and pads roam around, just gluing it into one big musical mass. As a final touch, the Sinners in Heaven version ends with a little latin bit with the percussion solo'ed and vintage playing, brings back happy memories of Santana... On the whole, its a Purgatory is a must purchase record, no doubt, it'll find a home in any record box, house, tech, prog, trance, its equally fitting. One of the years best.
Tracklisting:
A. Purgatory (Saints in Hell)
B. Purgatory (Sinners in Heaven)