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Mar. 12th, 2018 10:58 amI realize my frequency of posting these has dropped off dramatically. I'm... not sure what's up. I still listen to music though mostly sets from people I like and those are harder to blog, not least because I want to listen to the set at least twice for comment purposes. I have a few tracks I'll put down here first, then try to do a series of sets. Some of these individual tracks come from the aforementioned set - when I can pull out favored tracks I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ&feature=youtu.be
Start with this - a cover of "Zombies" from Bad Wolves. Apparently, this is the track Dolores O'Riordan was going to the studio to do when she died. Bad Wolves did the vocals themselves and released the cover in her memory. It's... brilliant. Covers can be better or worse, and this is certainly the best cover I've heard in a year or more. It's a heavy metal cover and it transposes the song exactly right into that genre, from the opening solo piano to the full crashing chorus, to the gentle drop-outs behind the emotional lyrics and the screaming guitar solo. To respect the original and build something great on top of it is fine artistry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbeQKnmjok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz2DZC_yPSU
That cover set me looking for others I might have missed and I turned this up. First is Lika Morgan covering "Relax", a track that gets a lot of covers. This version is from 2015 and it has a very nu-disco feel, while keeping some of the key elements of the original and adding some modern EDM tropes.
The second cover from Ms Morgan is Eurythmic's "Sweet Dreams" and also from 2015. This one feels like it's trying too hard - the same sort of nu-disco+EDM messes with the vocals a little more than I'd like. Yes, you've got the same rhythm and chord progressions, but Annie Lennox's voice does some amazing things in the original - it's one of the reasons the song was so popular - and this remix doesn't have that. (Amusing sidenote: while researching this, I discovered Lennox was awarded an OBE - neat!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMq2rFzoE3s
So, this is a thing. KAAZE featuring Elle Vee "Opera". It's a pretty standard tech-house track but with Vee rendering the kind of soaring vocals you typically get with European-style vocal trance. If you search her stuff on, say, Soundcloud, you get a selection of things she's fronted in the last year or two. They range from this "Come A Little Closer" (https://soundcloud.com/djsepofficial/sep-ft-elle-vee-come-a-little-closer-original-mix) which is a little darker, little deeper house to "Wild Ones" (https://soundcloud.com/codeblackmedia/code-black-feat-elle-vee-wild-ones) that is a completely frenetic stomp-hard track. Seems like someone worth following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOwRVTKJUw
Despite the age of this track I think I've never blogged it before, despite it being one of my favorite AvB numbers. "Feels So Good" is a standard dance song, not the usual trance style van Buuren is best known for. But it's just such a fun and bouncy track I keep coming back to it.
https://soundcloud.com/fortknoxfive/give-it-a-minute-ft-bcap-stickybuds-remix
And what would a music post from me be without at least SOME funk. This is Stickybuds' remix of "Give It A Minute" from Fort Knox Five. I'm sure I found FKF through Groovelectric originally, but I can't recall where I found this track - the tab has been open for a month or two. This is some killin' electro-funk with neat little scratch-dub bits thrown in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ&feature=youtu.be
Start with this - a cover of "Zombies" from Bad Wolves. Apparently, this is the track Dolores O'Riordan was going to the studio to do when she died. Bad Wolves did the vocals themselves and released the cover in her memory. It's... brilliant. Covers can be better or worse, and this is certainly the best cover I've heard in a year or more. It's a heavy metal cover and it transposes the song exactly right into that genre, from the opening solo piano to the full crashing chorus, to the gentle drop-outs behind the emotional lyrics and the screaming guitar solo. To respect the original and build something great on top of it is fine artistry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbeQKnmjok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz2DZC_yPSU
That cover set me looking for others I might have missed and I turned this up. First is Lika Morgan covering "Relax", a track that gets a lot of covers. This version is from 2015 and it has a very nu-disco feel, while keeping some of the key elements of the original and adding some modern EDM tropes.
The second cover from Ms Morgan is Eurythmic's "Sweet Dreams" and also from 2015. This one feels like it's trying too hard - the same sort of nu-disco+EDM messes with the vocals a little more than I'd like. Yes, you've got the same rhythm and chord progressions, but Annie Lennox's voice does some amazing things in the original - it's one of the reasons the song was so popular - and this remix doesn't have that. (Amusing sidenote: while researching this, I discovered Lennox was awarded an OBE - neat!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMq2rFzoE3s
So, this is a thing. KAAZE featuring Elle Vee "Opera". It's a pretty standard tech-house track but with Vee rendering the kind of soaring vocals you typically get with European-style vocal trance. If you search her stuff on, say, Soundcloud, you get a selection of things she's fronted in the last year or two. They range from this "Come A Little Closer" (https://soundcloud.com/djsepofficial/sep-ft-elle-vee-come-a-little-closer-original-mix) which is a little darker, little deeper house to "Wild Ones" (https://soundcloud.com/codeblackmedia/code-black-feat-elle-vee-wild-ones) that is a completely frenetic stomp-hard track. Seems like someone worth following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOwRVTKJUw
Despite the age of this track I think I've never blogged it before, despite it being one of my favorite AvB numbers. "Feels So Good" is a standard dance song, not the usual trance style van Buuren is best known for. But it's just such a fun and bouncy track I keep coming back to it.
https://soundcloud.com/fortknoxfive/give-it-a-minute-ft-bcap-stickybuds-remix
And what would a music post from me be without at least SOME funk. This is Stickybuds' remix of "Give It A Minute" from Fort Knox Five. I'm sure I found FKF through Groovelectric originally, but I can't recall where I found this track - the tab has been open for a month or two. This is some killin' electro-funk with neat little scratch-dub bits thrown in.
