Tim: There’s a sample here you may recognise.
Tom: Never mind that. Who sets their alarm clock for 7:03am?
Tim: Someone who wants to wake up at seven and whose clock is three minutes fast, but thinks it’s too much faff to work out how to change it. (This may or may not be why my alarm goes off at 7:06 each morning. (Really, it does.))
Anyway, the main problem with this tune, as far as I’m concerned, is that sample. You see, it’s a perfectly competent – more than competent, in fact, and I might even say very good – dance tune, and I like it a lot.
Tom: I like it too – and Dex clearly does, since he’s able to provide the kind of DJ dancing that I haven’t seen in a long while. It’s enthusiastic, to say the least.
Tim: BUT, I keep listening out for that little bit of Children. “Will it come back? There was only a bit of it, so it might not. But oh, there’s a bit. When’s it going to be next?”
Tom: “Children” is sampled so much that it’s almost become generic – and that’s a shame, because the original is an absolutely cracking track. But to just put this little short snap of it in? It just seems so bizarre.
Tim: Yeah, and I don’t know if most people will do that, or if it’s just me, but it means I’m so busy listening out for a few particular piano notes that everything else sort of passes me by, and that’s a shame, because this is otherwise an excellent piece of dance music, if perhaps six months early and/or late.