October 4th, 2016 2:20am
This Side Of Heaven
Yung Bae “As Sweet As My Baby”
Yung Bae is more DJ than producer. He’s less focused on composition than in digging up excellent obscurities and crafting them into a thrilling collage precisely calibrated to make people happy. He’s got a fantastic aesthetic – very indebted to the nostalgic disco vibes of the first Avalanches record, but with a deeper groove and traces of Japanese and Korean high-gloss hyperactive pop. There’s also a lot fewer samples involved, and as far as I can tell, Yung Bae’s main deal is reworking existing tracks rather than building up tracks from several sources. (This particular track is basically just a remix of Chris Bartley’s “The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven” from 1967.) But that’s not a problem, since the dude is so good at sustaining a vibe that makes the world sound like a joyful, exciting, and lovely place for about a half hour at a time. This track is just a fragment of that experience.
Buy it from Bandcamp.