aaamusic | On 24, Jul 2011

Do you remember the 90’s? I do. I also remember the awful attempts of bedroom producers to emulate the superclub smashing hits. This is what Hippie Daze is. The track is also a “club mix” of 70’s rock inspired song by four anachronistic youths.  Simply the words “club mix” can send chills down the spine of any record buyer.

This remixed version is, putting it simply, outdated and clichéd. Dance music has moved on considerably since those halcyon days in the 90’s to become one of music most forward thinking genres. It is with this notion that it would be my guess that this has not been produced by someone who neither makes nor even has an interest in dance music. The overriding feeling after listening to this track is that it has been made by someone who has simply taken whatever default sounds and samples in their recording software and made this track to see if they can. It’s amateurish.

This amateurism has prevented me from being too hard on the producer but any illusions that this is a good track should be abandoned. Worse still, this would not play out well in a club in any era.

 

Author: Barry Gray