drwex | Music, with a big helping of nostalgia

RCRD_LBL has been sending me pointers to remixes and I figured I'd collect up a few of them:

http://www.rcrdlbl.com/artists/Wolfmother/track/New_Moon_Rising_YACHT_Remix
Wolfmother (http://wolfmother.com/) is a hard act to characterize. It's something of a throwback to late-60s guitar rock but with more modern sensibilities and instruments. The remixes on this page are bouncy and energetic but without piling on too many BPM.

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Lauren_Flax/track/Youve_Changed_feat_Sia_Richie_Panic_and_UFO_remix
By contrast Lauren Flax is pretty straight-up dance music. High BPM, some female vocals. Has promise but I don't have time to check out more of her stuff right now.

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Erol_Alkan__Boys_Noize/track/Death_Suite_Bobermann_Remix
Likewise, this is a fairly ordinary dance track. It starts off strong then sort of fades to "meh" with repetitions near the end.

And now for something completely different. For a while now I've been thinking that a lot of peoples' reactions to mash-ups isn't so much a reaction to the mash-up itself as it is some set of reactions related to the mash-up and the component tracks. For which I give you this:
http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=218&Itemid=36
A mash-up of the new electro-rock tune "Uprising" by Muse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elElYLYG-yU) with the classic "Cover Me" from Blondie. That tune sparks a lot of memories for me. Debbie Harry was a very early crush for me. She was smokin hot (*), was an approachable punk, and was doing rap way the hell before it was fashionable for white folks. So, yeah, this mix is sultry, sexy, and very danceable in a way that the out-and-out dance mixes don't move me.

(*) In doing the research for this track I found that she was born in 1945, which made her about 40 when I was lusting after her. Bit of a surprise there.