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The masterful Budakid is back on Exploited with two beautiful tracks.
A spellbinding, slow-burning slice of melodic-tinged house music, ‘Ringo Bingo’ has shades of Todd Terje in its spacious arrangement, rolling groove and gorgeous riffage. An electro arpeggio percolates over the throbbing bass tones; heavily reverbed percussive hits create atmosphere; and nagging piano chords build a tense melodic backbone. The cute lead melody is at once euphoric and melancholy, and a stunning synth solo in the mid-section adds some dazzling freestyle energy that really opens the track.

‘’Ringo Bingo’ is for me a travel between fusion, club and a glimpse of electronic jazz” says the man behind the track. “I n the break I asked an old friend of mine — Rolf van de Sande, with whom I used to play in a band — to come up with a jazzy and extraordinary solo. He totally nailed it. I wrote the arrangement in the end around the solo, and let the groove take over the focus at the climax to get more of a dance feel to it. This is one of the tracks that was a pain in the ass to finish and mix because it was full of harmonies and melodies. But I thought "If Snarky Puppy can do it, I can try to do it..."

‘Aku Aku’ goes deeper still, with lush strings decking out a light arrangement where shuffling percussion and dreamy, crystalline chime melodies flit across the surface. The chimes are seamlessly bolstered by live bass guitar, doubling the melody up a treat, with splashes of percussive texture here and there bringing a little extra spice. A few piano chords later on are all that are needed to complete this sublime track.

"Aku Aku" is more of a dubby groove based track where I tried to use only a few elements. A hallucinogenic melody that's very repetitive, but easy on the ear due to its polyrhythm and harmony. Once a friend listened to it and said "Kevin, this sounds like an old 00's game". I totally agreed, so one of my favourite game characters was an inspiration for the name.”

Early Feedback:
DJ Mag France: Ringo Bingo is a nice mixture of sounds.
5Mag: He will appear in the next issue of 5Mag.
Dave Aju: Love the texture and 6/8 line in Aku Aku, would be dope to hear it over some alt rhythms too, nice one!
Claptone: Thx!
Riva Starr: Thanks for the music.
Matthias Meyer: Aku Aku is cool. 
Christian Martin: Love Aku Aku.
John Digweed: Downloading.
Biesmans: Ringo Bingo is a nice groover. 
Horse Meat Disco/Severino: Lovely.
Eelke Kleijn: I know this is good!
DJ T: Thank you for the music.
Annie Mac/BBC Radio 1: Downloaded for Annie.
Karotte: Aku Aku is cool. Like it.
RSS Disco: On the point - as always. Smooth & warm. Takes me places! Quality material. 

Artist: Budakid 
Release: Ringo Bingo
Label: Exploited
Cat: EXPDIGITAL211
LC: 15799 
Publisher: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing
Releasedate Beatport/Spotify: 19.02.21
Releasedate I-Tunes (all other stores): 05.03.21

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