MonkeyRobot - Hooked up

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Eric P. & LuiGi aka MonkeyRobot are longtime Laid Back collaborators previously known as Infinitskills and part of the 74 Miles Away project… Get ready to hear a lot about them in the coming weeks.

On the 6th of November, they will play a live beat set for LeftO's show on Stubru live from Pluto festival. On the 11th they will present an exclusive mix on Laid Back's mixcloud account AND during the next 7 weeks they will offer some music from their archive vaults as well as new and freshly cut material on their soundcloud account.

This track was created around the intro of a classic soul-boogie tune from the 80's by Jocelyn Brown that LuiGi sampled a while ago, after finding the 12'' hit-single 'Somebody else's guy' on a local flea market near his place for a bargain price. It's rather rare (for MonkeyRobot) to start composing a tune from vocal chops; it is actually more common to add vocal bits when the track is almost layered. In this case (even if we knew the original track for a long time) the deep and soulful intro from Brown instantly gave us inspiration. LuiGi previously recorded some chords and a melodic structure that we just had to bring back to another key scale, in order to match the vocal chops. The edgy drum pattern and bass line were layered on the same day.

It is our pleasure to finally share this track, that for an unexplainable reason was put on a dusty shelf for a long period. Most people pretend beats aren't getting better with age like red wine…well, in this case 'Hooked up' still sounds fresh to us. Enjoy.