On their New Skool EP, IDM collective Centuras offered listeners 3 versions of Ideal Planet. Their thinking appears to have been that samba was due to be the hot new sound which dance music had been waiting for in the early 90s and I think they deserved every bit of support possible to have made a samba revival a reality.
There was a time when I felt that Part 2 was the least impressive of the trio, but I now think that the order in which the tracks were sequenced on the EP reflects their quality, albeit we're talking about cigarette paper widths of difference between the three parts. Had Peel got his playlist running to a slightly different timescale, it's possible that he may have chosen to end his 12/12/92 show with the 4 minute long Part 1 with its irresistible samba rhythms. Or he may have gone with Part 3 which would have satisfied the need for a 6 minute track but which is blighted by an opening half which contains frequency modulations that only serve to irritate before the beat hits and makes up for it in the second half.
Part 2 shares many of the characteristics which make up the track in its other parts such as the spoken word Paradise sample, the metal pipe percussion, samples of what sound like wildcats scowling and a string sample which sounds like it's been lifted from John Williams score for The Well of the Souls scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. It incorporates into the samba elements a slightly more restrained form of speedcore dance, which isn't entirely successful to my ears, especially compared to the purer samba sound on Part 1, but it benefits from having such good fundamentals that it simply has to go on the metaphorical mixtape.
Video courtesy of Adrian Cojocaru.
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