Saved My Life - Basement Cuts EP (803CGCC010) DIGITAL WAV Files!

Tracklist:

1. Sharon Stoned: Down (SML Club Version feat. Senpolya)

2. Smiths Boys: Beauty & Thug (SML Club Edit)

Distorted melancholy: On their 1996 album Sample & Hold, German noise rock band Sharon Stoned (featuring guest appearances by The Notwist and Tocotronic) defined a unique aesthetic of "German Angst." Can this vibe be translated into the club?

The perfect challenge for Saved My Life aka Siggatunez (Gooey) and Constantin Sankathi (The Healing Company).

As a studio team, the two have spent the last decade transforming Italo disco, Brazilian samba, and French chanson into highly distinctive edits and remixes that stay etched in your memory.

For Crystal Grooves 803, the pair have refreshed Sharon Stoned's heartbreak anthem "Down" into an almost

unbelievable track, a hybrid of garage and trance, anchored by Senpolya’s vocals, which capture the mood of the original with intense yet subtle precision: "Your favourite shirt I'll wear it everywhere."

"Beauty & Thug" showcases another core strength of Saved My Life: reduce to the max. An R&B bootleg from the early 2000s is stripped of its slightly-too-mainstream choruses and rebuilt with string overdubs and

studio craft into an hypnotic late-night jam. Soulful vocals always hit hardest when you least expect them: "So burgundy, the window to his soul."

True to the spirit of SML's own imprint Downtown Romeo Records, the record comes complete with a sticker and an 8-page booklet including all lyrics.

This release is dedicated to all people believing that music is more than just music: substance and meaning.