What's the difference between an edit and a remix ?
I Prefer The Remix will be out of office for the next three weeks or so....
A break today - not so much a remix as a totally different track that drops a sample to devastating effect.
Just be warned, it's pretty hard techno (and all the better for it) until that drop....
Rrrrramp it up. Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger .... so to speak.
Difficult to see how this could cause anything other than dancefloor devastation (mind you, the Dirty Funker remixes of the same track were pretty limp). Pretty much essential for either Drum & Bass fans or White Stripes Fans I'd say, and nothing else need be said.
Now this really is creating a miracle. From the smallest of vocal samples, N-Joi managed to totally de-contruct the Aberdonian warbler into a rave queen.
N-Joi have been unfairly dismissed as one hit wonders (thanks to their uber-smash hit "Anthem") but it's perhaps more than a little unfair given the strength of their back-catalogue. I strongly recommend you try and track down a copy of their album "Inside Out" as well as their "Live In Manchester" EP*.
I don't believe there's much I can say about Annie Lennox that hasn't already been said. Let's just leave it at that.
hahaha - and here's yesterday's post that I somehow managed to delete ! Don't forget to scroll down for today's entry ....
Erm .... Sugarcubes ..... Jesus & Mary Chain ... blah blah blah.
(and thanks for your comment Ctel which is now lost forever !)
Not the first time 808 State have featured on this blog, and I suspect it won't be the last time either to be honest. A band that were pretty far ahead of the competition in their early days, and responsible for more than a few early dance classics. Which brings us nicely to "Cubic".
Originally a B-Side on the "Extended Pleasure Of Dance" EP, it became obvious that the song deserved greater exposure thanks to it getting thoroughly rinsed as rave music turned away from the piano-driven rave anthems towards tougher beats and stabs. The music very much seemed to match the mood in the clubs at the time to an extent, and in many ways Cubic was a precursor to the harder techno that was to follow.
As with a lot of dance music, a re-release provided the opportunity for another remix. Thankfully John Carter in his Monkey Mafia guise was able to not only turn in a remix very much in keeping with his consistently high output, but also create a remix that captured the atmosphere that every DJ at the time knew to well - it's cheeky but accurate, but you'll know what I mean when you hear a punter half way through this remix.
I know Photek has already been featured, but it's difficult to ignore talent when it slaps you in the face repeatedly.
Jem's been very quiet over the last few years, but her new album is out imminently ... sneaky listens have thankfully it's a little more than you may expect. For this track however, the premier single "They" from her 2005 album "Finally Woken" is revisited, and twisted beyond recognition by Rupert Parkes (for he is Photek) into a tear-up drum & bass monster, complete with Beltram hoovers and wub wub sub-bass. The oblique song lyrics (almost completely removed in this remix) refer to the fear of others' unknown feelings or intents created through the necessity of modern day anonymity. The mood created by Photek counter-plays on this theme effectively stripping the original's disarming backing and replacing with a chrome plated modern day nightmare.
Erm ... it's been a while hasn't it. I mean what kind of idiot forgets their password, eh ?
Back to the programme - track 1 of 12 proposed for what I reckon makes quite a ncie little compilation album. This is the rarer of two remixes that Surkin completed, but to my mind the better of the two, making a bit of an acid techno monster in the process ...
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