Maybe that is one reason why he did not get any further at the Goldie Awards (which come out of the Fool’s Gold camp) either: he did not fit neatly into either of the two categories.

With a monster of a routine like this, the question of category or genre does not even come up. It just rips!

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Direct link to the reel on Instagram.

Thumbnail from Rafik’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@DJRAFIK

To mark the 10th anniversary, A-Trak shared some background on the release of the track and especially on the making of the video. I love how A-Trak has been sharing behind-the-scenes stories over the past few months. That reminded me of how I once cut an edit from the video’s audio track and the original song, combining elements from the video that weren’t in the original. The scratch solo, the talkbox and the “Here I aaaaaam” from the fake Barbra are brilliant!

The video, complete with fresh backstory captions, dropped yesterday to celebrate the anniversary.

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More Duck Sauce over at Fool’s Gold Records and on the Duck Sauce YouTube channel.

September 13 marked the sixth anniversary of Mehdi’s death and regardless of that, I had actually dug out Signatune by chance shortly before to hear this extraordinary and incredibly energetic track again. This track seems a little lost, almost pointless, in the Lucky Boy album, as it starts practically with the hook* and, with a running time of just over a minute, is over pretty quickly too. It follows the style of the album to the extreme and not only serves the French, rather techno-leaning house, but with its short, DJ-tool-like tracks also reflects Mehdi’s hip-hop past.

The entire Ed Banger squad around Busy P flooded Instagram with posts in remembrance of Mehdi this year, and rightly so. Many other musicians, including A-Trak, did the same, and it was A-Trak who paid a wonderful tribute to Mehdi with his minimix in 2011. When Signatune appears in this mix (at minute 2:40), I get almost painful goosebumps, and that’s not the only reason why this track is firmly in my top 3 all-time favourites.

Thomas Bangalter’s edit was used for the official Signatune video, equally brilliant:

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Featured image credit: Michael Grech via flickr, CC-licensed
* Hook or hookline: the most distinctive, character-defining feature of a song (if anyone asks).