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Dee Edwards “Why Can’t There Be
Love?” has a raw Motown flavor befitting one of Detroit’s finest soul
vocalists. It was originally released on 7” single by Guido Marasco on
his Bump Shop label, so named because Marasco ran a car bump and paint
repair shop. The track is featured on the Gilles Peterson Digs America
Volume II compilation.
Prolific French producer Pilooski takes
the original Dee Edwards version and squeezes it through his magic
re-edit machine adding a nasty dose of bump n’grind. If you haven’t seen
the version used by Adidas in their Celebrating Originality campaign
you may have been living under a rock. The version on this 12” is
extended, is longer than the TV commercial, and has never been made
available before.
On the flip the mysterious S.L.P.P.O. drop an
Afrobeat track inspired by Bob Azzams club favorite “Batucada Por Favor”
and a little World Cup fever. While the Azzam track is a batucada
rhythm track that gains speed as it plays, “Accelerate” does the same,
but using an Afro-beat rhythm that gets faster and faster. One version
is percussion-based, the other features a fully-stocked band.

