(Magnetic Recordings/EMI)

The Puerto Rican born, Chicago bred – DJ Sneak – in a recent interview stated that he wanted to put the funk back into the music simply because it needed it so bad. If anything this single, from his forthcoming album, has succeeded in fulfilling Sneak’s proposal. At present, Sneak’s Fix My Sink has been adopted by some of the world’s greatest house purveyors, just one of them being Derrick Carter.

This single houses the Radio Edit, Original Club Mix and the Basement Jaxx Bouncy Vocal Dub, but to describe this track plurally in all its forms would go something along the lines of… ultimately chunky, funky slabs of jackin’ house; constantly percussive and stringy, filtered with beautiful live saxophone, capped with the vocals by Bear Who? The now familiar – ‘fix my sink, funk my funk, walk my walk, talk my talk, do what you gotta do, she said fix my sink’, ripe with all the sexual connotations Sneak can inconspicuously offer, all hit the listener refreshingly, listen after listen.

In essence, the Radio Edit and Original Club Mix don’t vary all that much apart from the obvious length and the more predominant feature of the saxophone in the club mix, but the Basement Jaxx Bouncy Vocal Dub strays from the previous tracks. It is as the title suggests – bouncy and not to mention very typically Basement Jaxx, with female vocals sensually moaning and aligned with Sneaks original words. The saxophone appears heavily in this remix as well; very improvisational, adding to the juxtaposed, jangled feel of this remix.

What’s the response? Bring on the full album and bring on Sneaks Australian tour!