Review
Genre and Mood
Bakermat, GoldFish and Marie Plassard made Games Continued, and this page is about its radio edit. GoldFish, announcing the release, said the collaboration set out to take melodic house to the next level; Discogs files the EP under deep house and house. Carefree and dreamy are this page’s reading of a song chosen to soundtrack sunsets, not words from a review.
Song Summary
Games Continued is the second song of Bakermat’s Games EP, released by Dirty Soul on 5 February 2016. The first, Games, is Bakermat with Plassard; the second adds GoldFish, the duo of Dominic Peters and David Poole from Cape Town. The digital release carries an extended mix of 6:18; this radio edit, at 3:23, appears beside it on the three-track Games release in MusicBrainz and on a promotional CD. GoldFish called it a long-awaited collaboration and said it had been teased in the Final Kid Ultra Europe aftermovie, filmed on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, before the full track came out. No source describes the lyric.
Musical Breakdown
No published review takes Games Continued apart, so this page draws no map of its sections. What can be said is what the edit is: the same song as the 6:18 extended mix, cut to little more than half its length for radio and streaming. The video on Bakermat’s channel runs about ten seconds longer than the audio edit. Listen for where Plassard’s voice enters and how much room the edit leaves the instruments around it.
Concepts in Focus
A radio edit is a version cut for radio: a faster start, fewer repeats, a length a playlist can hold. The extended mix is the DJ’s version, with room to mix in and out.
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That makes the second track an alternate version in a loose sense: the title says Games goes on, with a different team. Play Games and Games Continued side by side and hear what stays.
Artistic Context
Bakermat, born Lodewijk Fluttert in 1991, broke through with Vandaag in 2012, and Wikipedia credits his approach with inspiring the style often called melodic or tropical house; he often plays with saxophonists, singers and other live musicians. GoldFish, two jazz musicians who met at college, mix house, pop, jazz and African music and play double bass, saxophone, flute and keyboards alongside samplers. Bakermat had already released Teach Me on Dirty Soul Music, a division of Be Yourself Music.
Impact and Reception
Games reached number 76 in Flanders; Wikipedia lists no chart entry for Games Continued. Its life came elsewhere: it became Corona’s Sunsets anthem for 2016, celebrated with a London rooftop show streamed by Mixmag, and travelled on compilations such as GoldFish’s Organic House 4. Play it at the end of a long day.
