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Duck Sauce – It’s You

“I quite liked it on first listen.”

Tom: You’ll remember Barbra Streisand, of course. You may even remember the earlier aNYway, which made it to number 22 in the UK. But their one single since then sunk without leaving a much of a trace. And the new one…

Tom: …ah, hell, it’ll probably do the same.

Tim: Yeah, about the same.

Tom: That’s a shame, because I quite liked it on first listen. I seem to be rather liking tracks — of any genre — that sample and remix old records, and this should play into this. However, there’s nothing to sustain the interest on a second run-through: it’s the house music equivalent of by-the-numbers bubblegum pop.

Tim: It’s good enough – it’ll go down alright in the middle of the dance floor, but I can’t imagine that many people liking it enough to create a demand for it. The video’s interesting, though – I wonder what the casting call was like. WANTED: person who can do weird things with his eyes and doesn’t mind getting drowned in foam.

Tom: Would I dance to it? Yeah. Just not that enthusiastically.

Duck Sauce – Barbra Streisand

It’s catchy, and it’ll get people moving.

Tom: You’ll remember Duck Sauce – the code name for a collaboration between top DJs Armand van Helden and A-Trak – from last year’s aNYway, or at least from its glorious video. Here’s their new one.

Tom: I hated this on first listen, but I keep hearing it and it grows on me every time. First things first: this isn’t a track for the masses to download. This a track that’ll get people in dancing in clubs, that’ll get mashed up with everything under the sun, that DJs good and bad will chuck into their megamixes. I’ve already heard one mashup that throws in samples of Beat It and adds a ‘Michael Jackson’ voiceover in place of the titular Barbra.

Tim: I can imagine it going down well in a club – I thought the ‘ee-oo-ee-oo-blah-blah’ bit was a bit rubbish until it came back in at 2:50, when I realised the point of it, getting people oo-ing along.

Tom: And yet, somehow even the original is pretty listenable, before other stuff gets added in.

Tim: I disagree – I can’t really imagine ever listening to just this. Like you said, mixed in with something, maybe, or as a backing for something else, but on it’s own there’s not a lot to it. It’s catchy, I’ll grant them that, but for me not in an ‘Ooh, I’m glad this is in my head’ sense.

Tom: Well, it’s still catchy, and it’ll get people moving. And that’s all you can ask for from something like this, I reckon. There is an official video, but it agrees with you: it’s less of an official video and more of a travelogue with a consistent backing track and a massive rolling shutter problem.