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drwex
Sorry folks, this one is full of Gaga and disco. If that makes you cringe just skip on. But I do have to talk about a couple things.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQHvUObMbA&feature=player_embedded
I'm certain that I'll be inundated with Gaga remixes for the rest of this year, too, and most of them will suck as much as the original or worse. This, however, just WORKS. It's disturbing, really, when you think about it. How DJs from Mars (http://www.myspace.com/djsfrommars) managed to mix up Metallica's classic heavy metal anthem "Enter Sandman" with Gaga's ultra-pop "Telephone" hit is completely beyond me. The video isn't bad, either, but what really works is the underlying hard thunder that made Metallica famous which somehow pushes this track to the next level. (h/t to 'Song for the original pointer to this one.)
http://www.vevo.com/watch/christina-aguilera/not-myself-tonight/USRV81000022
Gaga's vid is not only heavily remixed and heavily played, it's getting responses. This here, the latest from Christina Aguilera, is not a mere shot across the bow - it's a direct slap back at Gaga from C.A. First, she's using the same production team as did the "Telephone" video. Then there are some very direct copies of dance moves, and a not-at-all-subtle use of a telephone and serious digs at Gaga's cheap product placements. Then there's the content - C.A. is basically all over the latex thing, and ALL OVER several men and women (take _that_ ambiguous bisexual Gaga). The blonde wigs are also a pretty out-and-out "Yeah, you did it but I was here first and I am way nastier than you" get-your-freak-on challenge.
The song? It's OK. Uses the f word somewhat gratuitously. It's danceable and I like C.A.'s voice somewhat better than Gaga's. It'll be remixed, too, but I don't think this is going to de-throne the queen of the moment. There will, as DJ Purple said to me, be war. Should be interesting; I'm reminded of the way male rappers dis each other - taken to a whole new level. Who was it said women always fight nastier than men?
http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=281&Itemid=27
OK, disco. I don't do... sigh, I can't say that anymore, can I? I mean, I really don't generally like disco. But damned if KrazyBen hasn't put together something altogether likeable out of two disco tracks overlaid with the reggae-rhyming Dizzee Rascal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPleuj42w0). Arabesque's "In the heat of a Disco Night" are to blame for starting this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcEssAf1cXE - if you can bear to listen) and it somehow has mutated from godawful to... y'know, not bad. Not bad at all.
http://audioporncentral.com/2010/04/einmeier-ovenbrod-i-feel-o.html
And if you're going to do disco you probably can't overlook the queen of disco herself. Here Einmeier & Ovenbröd (http://mimu.eu/) turn out an acoustic electro-disco stutter-mix using Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TBmeK9Abg). The track does a great job of taking the floaty bits from Summer and layering them over hard, high-BPM house rhythms.
http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=283&Itemid=27
The latest Clivester mash, which is another synthpop confection I have to confess I like. (Synthpop is the disco of the last 15 years, trust me on this.) The beats of the mash are pretty standard club stuff, built around German boy-pop-band Polarkreis 18's "Allein Allein". And I had to close with this one just so you could marvel with me at how this guy manages NOT to explode into flames: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHV4i59RaM
Seriously, watch that vid. I swear they had a brace of techs standing just off camera with extinguishers in hand.
Next time, I think, we'll be back to more usual stuff.
