Budakid - Aku Aku I Exploited by Exploited published on 2020-11-10T18:40:05Z Buy / Stream: https://orcd.co/ringobingo The masterful Budakid is back on Exploited with two beautiful tracks. A spellbinding, slow-burning slice of melodic-tinged house music, ‘Ringo Bingo’ has shades of Todd Terje in its spacious arrangement, rolling groove and gorgeous riffage. An electro arpeggio percolates over the throbbing bass tones; heavily reverbed percussive hits create atmosphere; and nagging piano chords build a tense melodic backbone. The cute lead melody is at once euphoric and melancholy, and a stunning synth solo in the mid-section adds some dazzling freestyle energy that really opens the track. ‘’Ringo Bingo’ is for me a travel between fusion, club and a glimpse of electronic jazz” says the man behind the track. “I n the break I asked an old friend of mine — Rolf van de Sande, with whom I used to play in a band — to come up with a jazzy and extraordinary solo. He totally nailed it. I wrote the arrangement in the end around the solo, and let the groove take over the focus at the climax to get more of a dance feel to it. This is one of the tracks that was a pain in the ass to finish and mix because it was full of harmonies and melodies. But I thought "If Snarky Puppy can do it, I can try to do it..." ‘Aku Aku’ goes deeper still, with lush strings decking out a light arrangement where shuffling percussion and dreamy, crystalline chime melodies flit across the surface. The chimes are seamlessly bolstered by live bass guitar, doubling the melody up a treat, with splashes of percussive texture here and there bringing a little extra spice. A few piano chords later on are all that are needed to complete this sublime track. "Aku Aku" is more of a dubby groove based track where I tried to use only a few elements. A hallucinogenic melody that's very repetitive, but easy on the ear due to its polyrhythm and harmony. Once a friend listened to it and said "Kevin, this sounds like an old 00's game". I totally agreed, so one of my favourite game characters was an inspiration for the name.” Early Feedback: DJ Mag France: Ringo Bingo is a nice mixture of sounds. 5Mag: He will appear in the next issue of 5Mag. Dave Aju: Love the texture and 6/8 line in Aku Aku, would be dope to hear it over some alt rhythms too, nice one! Claptone: Thx! Riva Starr: Thanks for the music. Matthias Meyer: Aku Aku is cool. Christian Martin: Love Aku Aku. John Digweed: Downloading. Biesmans: Ringo Bingo is a nice groover. Horse Meat Disco/Severino: Lovely. Eelke Kleijn: I know this is good! DJ T: Thank you for the music. Annie Mac/BBC Radio 1: Downloaded for Annie. Karotte: Aku Aku is cool. Like it. RSS Disco: On the point - as always. Smooth & warm. Takes me places! Quality material. Artist: Budakid Release: Ringo Bingo Label: Exploited Cat: EXPDIGITAL211 LC: 15799 Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing Releasedate Beatport/Spotify: 19.02.21 Releasedate I-Tunes (all other stores): 05.03.21 Genre Deep House Comment by Kym Rushton This one hella funky track. Goes perfect with your funky shirts 2021-02-23T23:38:00Z Comment by Nikki Lev's Dope 💯 2021-02-22T22:09:08Z Comment by Adam Ghanem <3 2021-02-22T21:51:13Z Comment by Aura 🦋🦋🦋🦋 2021-02-21T04:25:51Z Comment by Greg Venny 🎶 enjoying the ride 2021-02-19T14:29:03Z Comment by sunnyboy lovely 2021-02-19T14:24:23Z Comment by Henrique Campolina Flutuation 2021-02-19T13:57:26Z