CAFÉ DEL MAR

Energy 52

Both my regular readers will be a bit surprised by this review, but rest assured I really did write it (and of my own free will too). I appreciate that it’s unusual for me to give a glowing review, however this is exactly how a dance track should be done. No band consisting of forty-five members and their cat trying to work out what the next line should be so the kids in downtown Newton Longville think the song relates to life on the streets (man). No female session singer dragged away from her lunch break to record some “wooo”s and “yeah”s so they can be used three times a second throughout the record’s twelve minute duration. No hastily programmed drum machine bashing out the same drum loop for the best part of a week. And do you know why there’s none of this to found on Café Del Mar? “Go on Simon, tell me”, I hear you cry. Alright then, I will. Because this song is a work of genius, simple as that. It may seem very predictable on the surface - it starts off as one tune, quietens down and then goes for the big finish as an almost totally different tune. Any old fool can do that and, more’s the pity, any old fool regularly does. The people responsible for this finely crafted work (Paul M and Cosmic Baby, although I have a suspicion those names aren’t on their birth certificates) have sat down, thought about it and then come up with something so amazingly simple it’s unbelievable. And if you think that’s good, have a listen to the Michael Woods Ambient Mix – it’s the nearest you’ll get to lying on a beach on a warm evening without being there.

Look, it really is me writing this, honest...