Break my soul a review of sorts.

 So it's out, a new Beyonce album and a decent single from said album. No its not the one that is a retread of Anti Vax knob jockeys, Right Said Fred's I'm too sexy. (Seriously America what the fuck is wrong with you, most Brits in the 90's though they were cringe) But it's the one that is part shitty rap (Bounce) and part Robin S Show Me Love retread (Stonebridge remix.)

If people had any balls this is the Image they'd use.

It helps that Beyonce has a golden voice, and that only a ill guided rap part in the middle lets it down, otherwise the Acapella and original mix are the ones to go for, where Bounce and not Robin S are the glue that holds together that wonderful voice. Cull it and you get the mess that is the Instrumental. The bounce bits do not work on their own and the interpretation of Stonebridges Show Me Love rework are few and far between.

There is a bunch of mixes to go with it as well. Including what I thought was a mash up or a joke but is 100% official. The Queens Mix with Akhenaton faced whore, Madonna.  I got 1 min in before switching it off. 

There is a Will.I.Am mix which is adequate to a point but there is one sound that puts me off.

The Honey Dijon remix isn't half bad, quite a big drum build up and still haven't heard it all the way through to see if they'll do anything with it.

Nita Aviance does a good job with a stripped down house version that still has the rap sadly.

Full props must go to Terry Hunter for creating something that sounds like it should've been released on Strictly Rhythm back in 1994. It really feels like that area of Garage house, like Morels Groove. 

Still has the rap line in it.

Me I've been playing an edited acapella over DHS House of God Jack Dangers mix.

EDIT.

As a postscript to this, a few things stood out for me. First of all no one does anything like this any more. And by this I mean totally fuck with the vocal track. Check out Ron Hardy's Ghost, or Car Crash both chew up Let No Man Put Asunder and spits it out in strange ways.  No one rips up tracks any more.

Second, I've seen a number of shill writers wibble on about Black and Queer  Gay culture, when what you really mean to write is that era from the mid 80's when House was being threshed out of Italo and Disco in Gay clubs in NYC and Chicago. It still doesn't matter, that Korg piano house era was ten years later, in 92 -95, and Stonebridge's mix, on which this is based off of, is a Swede.

If you had any balls you'd base your track on this.