Clearing the music decks
Jun. 28th, 2011 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexOld joke I guess. Does anyone even know what a music deck is anymore? Anyway, here are three new sounds and some nice remixes from old favorites.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/CREEP/track/You_Planningtorock_Remix
Creep (http://www.myspace.com/wearecreep) are a Brooklyn duo that live musically someplace between punk and electronica. They call themselves trip hop but this stuff is much darker than what I usually associate with that kind of sound. The two remixes here have a minor-key electronic buzz that took me a couple of listens to get into, but is definitely growing on me.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/chucha_santamaria_y_usted/track/fiebre_tropical
Also outside my usual, Chucha Santamaria y Usted is sort of punk and sort of electronic and definitely Hispanic. But with church-choral overtones mixed under the typical Latin rhythms it comes across as an odd sort of inside-out music that is also pretty solidly electronic dance-pop. Go figure that one out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMHHHAi5Oqk
http://soundcloud.com/zagarmusic/sets/prophet-is-a-fool-remixes/
Zagar (http://www.zagarmusic.com/index_en.php) have a number of remixes out for this, their "Prophet Is A Fool" track. You can find all of them at the Soundcloud link. This one, Eriq Johnson's take, is neatly experimental and pulls in things from New York style R&B rhythms to Australian digeridoo influences, to vocal trance choral bits. Zagar themselves are Hungarian indie rockers who pull from all over - particularly jazz and trance-dance.
http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=384&Itemid=36
Dan Mei does a "return to a classic" mix here, using Katrina And The Waves' well-known "Walking On Sunshine" underneath Eric Hassle's "Hurtful" and speeding both up to a seriously kicking BPM. Say it with me - heavy horns make everything sound better.
http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=383&Itemid=36
Speaking of Dan Mei and making everything sound better, apparently it is possible to take a seriously mediocre and over-autotuned cover of Patti Smith's "Because The Night", mash that with a little Britney Spears drivel, an overplayed Bon Jovi tune, a heavy dollop of t.A.T.u and come up with something wholly awesome. I have no idea how, but it works. I blame it on t.A.T.u. whose hauntingly pained "Can you see me now?" echoes so strongly over the second half of the mix.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/06/illegal-sunday-production-unit-intro-again.html
Production Unit (http://dave.marciablaine.com/) takes two nice tracks - Alliyah's "Try Again" and The XX's spare and haunting "Intro" - to create a smooth beautiful mix with her vocals floating above the bass and beats. I've had this one on repeat for several days and it doesn't get old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VBtI_sUuL58
And finally lobsterdust, who seemingly can do very little wrong these days. Here he takes the sacred psychedelia of Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody To Love" and puts it up with the big dance sounds of Fatboy Slim's "Praise You." I linked to the video rather than the MP3 in part because watching it - and the very young Grace Slick - brought back memories. I believe the last time I saw her (and them) live was 1983 in a small theater just outside PA. From the sixth row I almost felt like I could touch her and when they sang this song she leaned way out over the audience and sang her heart out.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/CREEP/track/You_Planningtorock_Remix
Creep (http://www.myspace.com/wearecreep) are a Brooklyn duo that live musically someplace between punk and electronica. They call themselves trip hop but this stuff is much darker than what I usually associate with that kind of sound. The two remixes here have a minor-key electronic buzz that took me a couple of listens to get into, but is definitely growing on me.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/chucha_santamaria_y_usted/track/fiebre_tropical
Also outside my usual, Chucha Santamaria y Usted is sort of punk and sort of electronic and definitely Hispanic. But with church-choral overtones mixed under the typical Latin rhythms it comes across as an odd sort of inside-out music that is also pretty solidly electronic dance-pop. Go figure that one out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMHHHAi5Oqk
http://soundcloud.com/zagarmusic/sets/prophet-is-a-fool-remixes/
Zagar (http://www.zagarmusic.com/index_en.php) have a number of remixes out for this, their "Prophet Is A Fool" track. You can find all of them at the Soundcloud link. This one, Eriq Johnson's take, is neatly experimental and pulls in things from New York style R&B rhythms to Australian digeridoo influences, to vocal trance choral bits. Zagar themselves are Hungarian indie rockers who pull from all over - particularly jazz and trance-dance.
http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=384&Itemid=36
Dan Mei does a "return to a classic" mix here, using Katrina And The Waves' well-known "Walking On Sunshine" underneath Eric Hassle's "Hurtful" and speeding both up to a seriously kicking BPM. Say it with me - heavy horns make everything sound better.
http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=383&Itemid=36
Speaking of Dan Mei and making everything sound better, apparently it is possible to take a seriously mediocre and over-autotuned cover of Patti Smith's "Because The Night", mash that with a little Britney Spears drivel, an overplayed Bon Jovi tune, a heavy dollop of t.A.T.u and come up with something wholly awesome. I have no idea how, but it works. I blame it on t.A.T.u. whose hauntingly pained "Can you see me now?" echoes so strongly over the second half of the mix.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/06/illegal-sunday-production-unit-intro-again.html
Production Unit (http://dave.marciablaine.com/) takes two nice tracks - Alliyah's "Try Again" and The XX's spare and haunting "Intro" - to create a smooth beautiful mix with her vocals floating above the bass and beats. I've had this one on repeat for several days and it doesn't get old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VBtI_sUuL58
And finally lobsterdust, who seemingly can do very little wrong these days. Here he takes the sacred psychedelia of Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody To Love" and puts it up with the big dance sounds of Fatboy Slim's "Praise You." I linked to the video rather than the MP3 in part because watching it - and the very young Grace Slick - brought back memories. I believe the last time I saw her (and them) live was 1983 in a small theater just outside PA. From the sixth row I almost felt like I could touch her and when they sang this song she leaned way out over the audience and sang her heart out.
