What I Might Do

Album: What I Might Do (2013)
Charted: 7
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Songfacts®:

  • The Manchester based DJ and producer Ben Pearce is the co-founder with Chris Farnworth of the record label/DJ agency Purp & Soul. This slinky, Deep House music tune was his debut single. It was released on March 26 2013 by Universal Music Group, under exclusive license from Under the Shade Records.
  • The song samples the bluesy vocals from the Anthony Hamilton song "Cornbread, Fish & Collard Greens." Pearce told Beatport the tune was a long time in the making, and he spent months tweaking it. "It's probably the longest I've ever spent on a track because I usually work very quickly," he said. "I'm glad I procrastinated because the end result has been worth it. The arrangement was pretty much always the same. I added the higher pad quite late on, and when I had the base of the track, my girlfriend suggested the vocal. I threw it over and it just worked."

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  • Mads from NowhereThis song is catchy :)
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