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Making covers of well known stuff are almost always a good catch. However getting to do a cover album of the greatest electronic anthems ever straight on is a mammoth task. Simply for the fact that these are really the biggest electronic anthems ever and you don’t have the chance to go wrong.

(from his 2005 EP on Hi-Fi Terapi)

Mr. Horne is a talented musicman from Bergen, Norway and this song is off his debut release on the yummy Norwegian label Hi-Fi Terapi. Espen is not a newcomer in the scene though, he has released many records on the ever-successful Stereo Deluxe label as Bobby Hughes and on the Tru Thoughts label as Kinny & Horne with Caitlin Simpson.

This return to a local label, sees him doing a brilliant cover work of Bill Withers’ Ain’t no Sunshine (Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone/It’s not warm when she’s away/Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone/and she’s always gone too long/Anytime she goes away).

Chopped up beats, retro organs, and beautiful urban acidjazz interpretation by Kinny, takes the song to such a level, that we previously thought only Dani and Herbert could achieve. Up there with the Sonar Kollektiv and Compost releases, I’m sure Mr. Gilles Peterson is cranking it up everyday. :)

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