(Hussle/EMI)

1.Out The Door (Superdiscount remix) 7.53
2.Out The Door (In Flagranti vocal mix) 6.10
3.Out The Door (In Flagranti dub mix) 6.23
4.Out The Door (album version) 4.12

Danish disco-funk trio Whomadewho’s self-titled debut album has certainly been greeted with a warm reception since its local release through Hussle / EMI earlier this year, and this third single to be lifted from the album seems set to broaden their rapidly growing fanbase even further, as it selects what’s easily one of that longplayer’s most immediately infectious and memorable moments.

In its original album form, ‘Out The Door’ certainly comes across as one of the recent album’s most sinuously bass groove-laden moments, a vaguely Rapture-esque bassline powering its way alongside crisp punk-funk snares and fuzzbox guitar riffs, while Jeppe Kjelleberg’s vocals slide easily in near falsetto around the jagged edges; a refreshing change from the barked vocal delivery that’s often firmly in place on similar efforts by many of Whomadewho’s peers. Gallic producer Etienne De Crecy crops up under his Superdiscount guise and contributes what was personally my favourite of the excellent reworkings on offer here, eliminating virtually all of the original elements of the track and rebuilding it from the ground up into dark, buzzing electro-house brimming with squelching acid 303s, sinister analogue synth bass powering its way beneath icy handclaps and menacing distortion as Kjelleberg’s vocals are reduced to mere stuttering, rhythmic fragments in a moment that calls to mind fellow Frenchmen The Youngsters.

In Flagranti also supply two different remixes here that offer a considerably smoother house excursion that allows plenty of space for the original’s Joy Division-esque basslines to take the foreground alongside colourful bleeping analogue synth tones and cowbells; while the vocal mix retains pretty much all of Kjelleberg’s original vocals; for my money, the dub mix comes across as the slightly more intriguing of the two as it plays the falsetto backing vocals off against ratting, almost tribal house percussion. An excellent 12” remix package from Whomadewho that’s pretty much worth grabbing for the storming Superdiscount remix alone.

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