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Close To You single cover: Kef in a blue shirt photographed from above, hand on his head, inside swirling contour lines
Released
September 2000
Label
Amherst Records
Format
Promotional CD maxi-single
Catalog no.
CD DJ 26
Genre
Pop / Hip-hop
Publishing
KEFSKI Music / Harlem Music (BMI)

Maxi-single · Kef · 2000

Close To You

The second single from Poppaloopa, a simple love song about a girl I passed on the way to work. Björn Schaller stretched it into an eight-minute electrofunk mix, and KC Cohen did a club mix.

Tracklist

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  1. 1Close To You (Radio Edit)3:57
  2. 2Close To You (Björn’s Electrofunk)8:19
  3. 3Close To You (KC’s Club Mix)6:13
  4. 4Close To You (Album Version)5:22
  5. 5Close To You (Pub Dub)4:49
Credits
Written by
Dave Keffer
Produced and performed by
Dave Keffer (as Kef)
Executive producer
Leonard Silver
Recorded at
Kef’s Place
Mixed by
Keith “KC” Cohen at Larrabee West, Los Angeles, assisted by Jason “J-Dub” Schweitzer
Backing vocals
Mark Carter, Sandra Allen
Guitars
Carlos Villalobos
Vinyl
DJ Drez
Additional crowd
Mark, Jess
Remix (Björn’s Electrofunk)
Björn Schaller, recorded at Monique’s Garage
Remix (KC’s Club Mix)
Keith “KC” Cohen, recorded at JaxxTraxx
Mastered by
Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman, Hollywood
Photography
Mario Perez
Published by
Harlem Music, Inc. / KEFSKI Music (BMI)
℗ & ©
2000 Amherst Records, Inc., Buffalo, NY. Promotional use only, not for sale.

The sleeve

Close To You back tray card: credits, the five-track list, the Poppaloopa cover and a Promotional Use Only notice over blue and grey contour lines
Back tray card, from the original print files
Close To You disc face: black-and-white photo of Kef from above with blue KEF and Close To You lettering and the five-track list
Disc face, from the original print files

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