Beachball is one of my favourite tracks from back in the days when Paul Oakenfold used to bash it out to a packed courtyard each week at Cream in Liverpool.
Beachball is also one of the tracks I think is best suited to a series of modernising remixes, which is exactly what it’s had on the varous Beachball 2010 releases.
Rather than plumping for one of the excellent progressive house remixes of the track which I’m sure will be a hit in all the usual places, I’ve actually plumped for the trancier Myon and Shane 54 remix.
The remixers have done a sensible job of not overcomplicating the modernisation, and have kept in the distinctive bongo, bird sounds and riffs. And while first time around the instrumental version stole the show, the vocal in this instance is really well worked and doesn’t sound at all dated.
Another noteworthy mention has to go to the excellent Joris Voorn remix which first alerted me to the track.
Here’s a link to the original beachball. Just to prove even the best tracks can be completely ruined, here’s Tall Paul murdering beachball.