Freaks are back on Rebirth with a great cover of the Womack & Womack classic remixed by Henrik Schwarz and Johnny D !Freaks follow up their release, 'Right Now featuring Robert Owens' with another exciting single on Rebirth. This time Luke Solomon and Justin Harris team up with Diz aka 012 to reinterpret the Womack & Womack classic !
In the words of Freaks, We first started recording this record around 6 years ago. Originally to a live drum track. The track started off as a straight cover, then eventually was stripped down and remixed effectively. Diz used to stay with us quite a bit in London and around the time that we first recorded the vocals we had been listening to a lot of Funkadelic, The Style Council and this. Diz started singing it in the car and we just decided to record it for fun. It just seemed to work so well, probably because Diz really understood the soul of the track and captured it in the delivery of his vocals. We then added some backing vox and stripped that back and ended up with this version...The album, 'Conscience', that we took it from, is one of our all time faves
The one and only Henrik Schwarz also serves up a strong remix and dub with his trademark warm sound, piano, synth and acid bassline ! Magic and epic at the same time... From Germany Johnny D reworks the song with his special groove and vibe !
Already tried and tested by Gilles Peterson in the last month....... this is a another monster tune from the Freaks stable.
DJ Feedback:
PETE TONG BBC RADIO1
DEETRON ‘awesome release - really love the original and the Schwarz remix is a killer as always!’
2000 AND ONE ‘Love it !’
EWAN PEARSON ‘love it, both in the original and henrik's remix. excellent. ‘
DJUMA SOUNDSYSTEM ‘This is great! I especially love the Schwarz mix!’
JIMPSTER ‘Henrik Schwarz mix is sounding deadly! looking forward to playing this one out’
GEL ABRIL ‘love henrik schwarz mix’
DJ GREGORY ‘Dope !’
TRICKSKI ‘great original, great cover, great remix of the cover. the remix of the cover is my fave though. I like it a lot!’
FEYGIN ‘both mixes are fire! ..please send the link to the whole thing! Amazing’
ASHLEY BEEDLE ‘Had a good listen to the Freaks ' Conscious Of My Conscience". Both mixes are wicked and of course Henrik is on fine form as always. ‘
CRAIG SMITH (6th BOROUGH PROJECT) ‘Love the Womack & Womack original from way back but as always Henrik Schwarz delivers an amazing interpretation.’
PEZZNER ‘Love the original mix. The Henrik Schwarz mix is good too.’
FREEFORM 5 ‘Love it...great cover. Nice remix too, but for once Henrik doesn't outshine the original!!’
SILICONE SOUL ‘lovely heart warming house music - feeling this! ‘
CATZ N DOGZ ‘amazing! will play for sure!’
PASTA BOYS ‘Conscious e' una delle mie canzoni preferite di sempre!! Full full full support!’
MELON ‘original and henrik's mix are both great! i played the original at pbar last saturday and they went mad!!!really great to see that the freaks are doing stuf again’
MANUEL TUR ‘very cool release, liking both versions a lot, with slight preference to the original.’
SIMBAD ‘WOOOOOOW THIS IS A CLAAAAAAAASSIC tune 4 me !!!! Absolutely beautiful, really lookin 4ward 2 play it, gonna be in my box for years to come’
MUSARIA ‘Love the vocal mix, and I love the mix of the synth sounds and the piano in the Henrik Schwarz mix. Both would find a happy home in my sets.’
DISKJOKKE ‘fantastic, loving both versions!’
RODRIGUEZ JR ‘Lovin' this release. The two mixes are awesome. Beautiful vibe and feeling !’
CROWDPLEASER ‘Great great great !’
MOUSSE T ‘Dope !’
CHRIS WOODWARD ‘this is fantastic!’
JULIEN CHAPTAL ‘Awesome release! Loving both of these versions.’
NICOLAS MATAR ‘Best Henrik Remix I have heard for ages. Full support from Cielo NYC’
RAINER TRUEBY ‘One of my favourite tracks ever recorded by Womack & Womack...the cover version is done with respect, loving both mixes...’
NUNO DOS SANTOS ‘Wow massive release!! Original & Schwarz remix!’
PETE HERBERT ‘wow! loving the Henrik remix!!! and the Freaks is superb too....’
LIVIO & ROBY ‘Great package, loving both of mixes’
AXWELL ‘Schwarz remix is a beauty’
CHRIS LAKE ‘ original more playable out but remix is very coo and may use on pod cast...’
ALEX FROM TOKYO ‘This is a great cover! The 2 mixes are great. ‘
ALEX TEPPER ‘Nice cover of a great record. Loving Henry's remix..’
SHUR I KAN ‘some classy shit here. Like both mixes!’
QUENTIN HARRIS ‘I'm a big fan of Henrik and Dixon and I love this. It's just as you said, it's stripped down and intimate and yet surprisingly epic. ‘
TOM FINDLAY (Groove Armada) ‘love the Schwarz mix, nice deep groove with proper dirty synth/bass’
TONY HUMPHRIES ‘Amazing tune and Remix from Henrik!! He’s truly a genius.. :)’
MR V ‘both mixes rock!’
BROTHER’S VIBE ‘Massive project! All I can say :O)’
MICHEL DE HEY ‘excellent schwarz remix!’
MICHAEL REINBOTH (COMPOST) ‘Henrik mix is awesome. Fantastic. Orig is great, too, will play both. Full support.’
MICHAEL RUTTEN ‘great release. Always a big challenge to do cover versions of such amazing classics, but the Freaks done it well - and Henrik Schwarz delivers another, yet different sounding side of his musical state of the art.’
SAN PROPER ‘Sexy stuff... I'm crazy 'bout both mixes. Love the shuffle of the vocal-mix, it's excellent groove... (and I like the backing vox!). Henrik's version works great too. Let's go piano.’
CHRIS COCO ‘Henrik's mix is lovely. Perfect for my Melodica radio show and gigs. ‘
X PRESS 2 ‘Fantastic !’
BEN WESTBEECH ‘LOVE THIS! ‘
WILLIAM K. DJOKO ‘This is killer!! I will definitely chart the Henrik Schwarz mix..’
HECTOR ROMERO ‘WOW! Original is a future classic! And it's better than the Henrik Schwarz remix - which is very difficult to accomplish cause Henrik is the man! Love this! ‘
LOST HEROES ‘After a series of strong release in 2010, Rebirth is kicking of 2011 with this bomb ! A very interesting project between the Freaks + Diz covering one of my all time time by Womack + Womack . The new version is modern , deep + very now. As for the remix well, Henrik "cannot do wrong" Schwarz is killing it ! This is my # one track for January !’
DJ CHUS ‘Oh my god! HS mix is absolutely amazing!!!!!! love it!’
FISH GO DEEP ‘Lovely vocal and two fine mixes. Not sure which one I prefer yet.’
TERRY FARLEY ‘boss track ! Love it’
NEIL QUIGLEY ‘Incredible stuff, here's my feedback: 'Massive! 2011 has its first anthem!'’
NICK WARREN ‘Excellent release, both mixes are great’
In the words of Freaks, We first started recording this record around 6 years ago. Originally to a live drum track. The track started off as a straight cover, then eventually was stripped down and remixed effectively. Diz used to stay with us quite a bit in London and around the time that we first recorded the vocals we had been listening to a lot of Funkadelic, The Style Council and this. Diz started singing it in the car and we just decided to record it for fun. It just seemed to work so well, probably because Diz really understood the soul of the track and captured it in the delivery of his vocals. We then added some backing vox and stripped that back and ended up with this version...The album, 'Conscience', that we took it from, is one of our all time faves
The one and only Henrik Schwarz also serves up a strong remix and dub with his trademark warm sound, piano, synth and acid bassline ! Magic and epic at the same time... From Germany Johnny D reworks the song with his special groove and vibe !
Already tried and tested by Gilles Peterson in the last month....... this is a another monster tune from the Freaks stable.
DJ Feedback:
PETE TONG BBC RADIO1
DEETRON ‘awesome release - really love the original and the Schwarz remix is a killer as always!’
2000 AND ONE ‘Love it !’
EWAN PEARSON ‘love it, both in the original and henrik's remix. excellent. ‘
DJUMA SOUNDSYSTEM ‘This is great! I especially love the Schwarz mix!’
JIMPSTER ‘Henrik Schwarz mix is sounding deadly! looking forward to playing this one out’
GEL ABRIL ‘love henrik schwarz mix’
DJ GREGORY ‘Dope !’
TRICKSKI ‘great original, great cover, great remix of the cover. the remix of the cover is my fave though. I like it a lot!’
FEYGIN ‘both mixes are fire! ..please send the link to the whole thing! Amazing’
ASHLEY BEEDLE ‘Had a good listen to the Freaks ' Conscious Of My Conscience". Both mixes are wicked and of course Henrik is on fine form as always. ‘
CRAIG SMITH (6th BOROUGH PROJECT) ‘Love the Womack & Womack original from way back but as always Henrik Schwarz delivers an amazing interpretation.’
PEZZNER ‘Love the original mix. The Henrik Schwarz mix is good too.’
FREEFORM 5 ‘Love it...great cover. Nice remix too, but for once Henrik doesn't outshine the original!!’
SILICONE SOUL ‘lovely heart warming house music - feeling this! ‘
CATZ N DOGZ ‘amazing! will play for sure!’
PASTA BOYS ‘Conscious e' una delle mie canzoni preferite di sempre!! Full full full support!’
MELON ‘original and henrik's mix are both great! i played the original at pbar last saturday and they went mad!!!really great to see that the freaks are doing stuf again’
MANUEL TUR ‘very cool release, liking both versions a lot, with slight preference to the original.’
SIMBAD ‘WOOOOOOW THIS IS A CLAAAAAAAASSIC tune 4 me !!!! Absolutely beautiful, really lookin 4ward 2 play it, gonna be in my box for years to come’
MUSARIA ‘Love the vocal mix, and I love the mix of the synth sounds and the piano in the Henrik Schwarz mix. Both would find a happy home in my sets.’
DISKJOKKE ‘fantastic, loving both versions!’
RODRIGUEZ JR ‘Lovin' this release. The two mixes are awesome. Beautiful vibe and feeling !’
CROWDPLEASER ‘Great great great !’
MOUSSE T ‘Dope !’
CHRIS WOODWARD ‘this is fantastic!’
JULIEN CHAPTAL ‘Awesome release! Loving both of these versions.’
NICOLAS MATAR ‘Best Henrik Remix I have heard for ages. Full support from Cielo NYC’
RAINER TRUEBY ‘One of my favourite tracks ever recorded by Womack & Womack...the cover version is done with respect, loving both mixes...’
NUNO DOS SANTOS ‘Wow massive release!! Original & Schwarz remix!’
PETE HERBERT ‘wow! loving the Henrik remix!!! and the Freaks is superb too....’
LIVIO & ROBY ‘Great package, loving both of mixes’
AXWELL ‘Schwarz remix is a beauty’
CHRIS LAKE ‘ original more playable out but remix is very coo and may use on pod cast...’
ALEX FROM TOKYO ‘This is a great cover! The 2 mixes are great. ‘
ALEX TEPPER ‘Nice cover of a great record. Loving Henry's remix..’
SHUR I KAN ‘some classy shit here. Like both mixes!’
QUENTIN HARRIS ‘I'm a big fan of Henrik and Dixon and I love this. It's just as you said, it's stripped down and intimate and yet surprisingly epic. ‘
TOM FINDLAY (Groove Armada) ‘love the Schwarz mix, nice deep groove with proper dirty synth/bass’
TONY HUMPHRIES ‘Amazing tune and Remix from Henrik!! He’s truly a genius.. :)’
MR V ‘both mixes rock!’
BROTHER’S VIBE ‘Massive project! All I can say :O)’
MICHEL DE HEY ‘excellent schwarz remix!’
MICHAEL REINBOTH (COMPOST) ‘Henrik mix is awesome. Fantastic. Orig is great, too, will play both. Full support.’
MICHAEL RUTTEN ‘great release. Always a big challenge to do cover versions of such amazing classics, but the Freaks done it well - and Henrik Schwarz delivers another, yet different sounding side of his musical state of the art.’
SAN PROPER ‘Sexy stuff... I'm crazy 'bout both mixes. Love the shuffle of the vocal-mix, it's excellent groove... (and I like the backing vox!). Henrik's version works great too. Let's go piano.’
CHRIS COCO ‘Henrik's mix is lovely. Perfect for my Melodica radio show and gigs. ‘
X PRESS 2 ‘Fantastic !’
BEN WESTBEECH ‘LOVE THIS! ‘
WILLIAM K. DJOKO ‘This is killer!! I will definitely chart the Henrik Schwarz mix..’
HECTOR ROMERO ‘WOW! Original is a future classic! And it's better than the Henrik Schwarz remix - which is very difficult to accomplish cause Henrik is the man! Love this! ‘
LOST HEROES ‘After a series of strong release in 2010, Rebirth is kicking of 2011 with this bomb ! A very interesting project between the Freaks + Diz covering one of my all time time by Womack + Womack . The new version is modern , deep + very now. As for the remix well, Henrik "cannot do wrong" Schwarz is killing it ! This is my # one track for January !’
DJ CHUS ‘Oh my god! HS mix is absolutely amazing!!!!!! love it!’
FISH GO DEEP ‘Lovely vocal and two fine mixes. Not sure which one I prefer yet.’
TERRY FARLEY ‘boss track ! Love it’
NEIL QUIGLEY ‘Incredible stuff, here's my feedback: 'Massive! 2011 has its first anthem!'’
NICK WARREN ‘Excellent release, both mixes are great’
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