<Electro House/Swing> It was just over a year ago that I sat listening to the Fishies third studio album, Get Busy Living, wondering if it could live up to the expectation created by the runaway success of Perceptions of Pacha. Well, as anybody who is familiar with the duo’s music will know, their album no. 3 more than met the anticipation of their fans and received amazing support from SA music channels including all the biggest radio stations. Goldfish have learnt to tread a precariously thin line between pop and dance music with songs that are cleverly constructed and are very well composed. In short their albums sell because they know how to write hit songs. A remix album is a different beast though. Tougher beats, deeper grooves, syncopated percussion and sassy vocal tweaks are the order of the day as 13 remixes are served up by a host of SA and international producers. Some tracks are remixed more than once but anybody who knows dance music will understand that remixes are DJ fodder and as such a different take on one track is a welcome interpretation. Overall this is a solid reworking of an already classic album that should ignite dancefloors both locally and abroad and re-affirms Goldfish’s status as SA’s leading dance music duo. Pick of the remixes for me are; In Too Deep (James Copeland remix), Big Band Wolf (Ugo Platana Remix) and Culoe De Song’s deep urban remix of Call Me is strangely alluring.
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