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Freerange had ‘the other room’ set at Peterson’s gig last week, with GP, Peter Kruder and a live set from Stereotyp in competition; you could well have missed this one.

If you believe all you read, Manuel Tur comes from Essen that’s “synonymous with urban boredom”. Well that’s a good thing as he’s clearly spent many hours indoors developing a passion for DJing that progressed to hours in the recording studio writing and producing tracks for his sets. Freerange’s Jimpster (he of The Bays) has already got Mr. East on his ‘Love You Better’ track off the Amour project so it was a natural to get East on vocals and between them, they’ve got a hit on their hands with ‘Will Be Mine’ in the proportions a of classic Robert Owens.

So you might gather I’m rather keen on ‘Will Be Mine’ and it’s the type of track, if you or I had produced it, we’d be thinking job done, feet up, rest on laurels. So it comes as a great bonus that the other track, ‘Stay’ is as equally as good.

Slower, funkier, dubbier with more soul, it satisfies your warm-up box with sexy vocals from Larissa Kapp (don’t miss out on the instrumental though).

Getting back to ‘Will Be Mine’, it’s good to see that veteran Ian Pooley’s remix standards as high as every (and not just because he release a track called, ‘The Fly Shuffle’ and featured on Night Stories) as his version is on it in a bangin’ 4×4 before getting scary with the synth stabs and there’s a couple of versions by Arto Mwanbe that ups the funk; big noise on the hypnotic dub version.

Manuel Tur’s background includes releases on Drumpoet Community’s with Dplay and Ovum with Langenberg and his remixes are hot deep house favourites.

‘Will Be Mine’ is the first single from his debut LP entitled 0201 which is due out in the summer and it’s one we’re going to be looking out for.

Reviewed: Manuel Tur feat. Alexander East - Will Be Mine (Freerange) Cat. No. FR121 Release date: 18th May 2009 (12”) 1st June 2009 (Digital)
1 Will Be Mine (12” Extended) (6:43)
2 Will Be Mine (Arto Mwanbe Dub Version) (6:55)
3 Will Be Mine (Ian Pooley Remix) (6:57)
4 Stay (Original) (3:35)
5 Stay (12” Extended Instrumental) (5:51)
6 Will Be Mine (Arto Mwambe Vocal Remix) (7:33)

Links:
www.manueltur.com
www.myspace.com/manueltur
www.dplay.info
www.myspace.com/alexandereast
www.planeteastmusic.com
www.ianpooley.com
www.myspace.com/therealianpooley
www.myspace.com/larissakapp
www.freerangerecords.co.uk
www.myspace.com/freerangerecordsuk
Freerange @ The Arches - Friday 15th May
Tickets are now on sale for the next Freerange shindig, which is on Friday 15th May at The Arches in London Bridge. The club is running a spanking new programme of events on Friday nights under the banner We Fear Silence. It’s a fantastic venue, and Freerange will be hosting Room 2 - a dark intimate little space perfect for some delicious deep house. Jimpster will be playing a 4 hour set, joined by Pash Ostovar. Meanwhile some chap called Gilles Peterson will be spinning in the main room - apparantly he’s rather good. Snap up advance tickets here.
Gilles Peterson :: 16th April 2009 :: All Winners 2009 Part 1
LD - Traumatic Times (Hyperdub)
Miguel Atwood Ferguson & Carlos Niño - Fall In Love (Mochilla)
Elmore Judd - Staring (Test)
Oumou Sangare - Lyo Djeli (World Circuit)
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Mensequo (Strut)
Beirut - The Akara (Ba Da Bing)
Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu - Global Party (Sahko)
Nacho Patrol - African Space Program (Kindred Spirits Electronic)
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro - The Dreaming Mind Part 1 (Tru Thoughts)
Mos Def - Quiet Dog (Downtown)
Jay Electronica - Candyman (Test)
Bullion - Time For Us All To Love (One Handed)
Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So Maybe No (Stones Throw)
Elan Mehler - New Breed (Brownswood)
The Long Lost - Amiss (Ninja Tune)
Hudson Mohawke - Monde (Warp)
Martyn - Elden Street (3024)
Manuel Tur - Patchworks (Freerange)
Manuel Tur - Stay (Freerange)
Floating Point - Like This (Eglo)
Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Re-edit) (Tirk)
Phlash & Friends - Do It Up (Archive)
Toddla T - Better (1965)