- What with all the recent attention given to Flying Lotus, you could be forgiven for passing over Sparo's 'The Falling' which, whilst not quite as avant-garde as the Warp hipster, shows he has considerable promise as a beatsmith. The title track is a lazy, mellifluous downbeat hip-hop cut that wouldn't be out of place on the next Aim album. Clipped string samples, lazy guitar chords and fat head-nodding beats combine to make the opening delightfully filmic. But it's not all lushness with Sparo, and halfway through it breaks down into one of those guitar riffs that's so funky it makes your body spasm in a James Brown kinda way. Well, it does mine anyway.
My Left Retina's remix gives the track a completely new spin whilst just about being recognisable as the original. He takes a four-bar melody exerpt, rearranges the notes so it sounds like the theme from 'Get Carter', and slows it down so the beats are even chunkier and clunking. There's also some gibberish samples about experiments with humans which is a bit Coldcut but works very well. Also on the EP is the mix by Mexican Institute of Sound which adds afro percussion and a choir of vocals to reasonable effect. Joey2Tits' effort turns it into a generic electro house number complete with Justice-lite cut-up effects.
Tracklist1 Sparo – The Falling (Original)
2 Sparo – The Falling (Mexican Institute Of Sound Remix)
3 Sparo – The Falling (My Left Retina Remit)