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This week we have the return of several old favorites in new clothes.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/08/major-lazer-get-free-the-video.html
Major Lazer is known for two things: wildness and freestlying. Given that, if this wasn't labeled as a Lazer track I would not have recognized it. It's a slow reggae/soul-infused female-vocal track paced like you'd expect for something shot in Jamaica, where it's more or less against the law to hurry.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/08/ladyhawke-blue-eyes-ron-flieger-remix.html
Back in April I noted a Scissor Sisters remix of Ladyhawke. This is Ron Flieger (http://ronflieger.com/) remixing her "Blue Eyes" and I like it. The remix makes the original sound very much like a Fleetwood Mac-era female-pop single, and then lays that down on some slammin' good dance beats. The combination works exceptionally well.
http://soundcloud.com/eliot_music/snap-the-power-eliot-mix
Another of my guilty pleasures is that I love Snap's original of "The Power" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6DO_7px1I). It's a delightful mash of all kinds of samples of American music styles, as seen by a European. So now ELIOT (or EL!OT) has done a kind of sped-up electro version that keeps many of the original's signature hooks and throws in some steel drums just for good measure.
http://www.myspace.com/lenakatinaofficial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5X2v0jGil0
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/09/lena-katina-never-forget-a-copycat-remix.html
If you know who t.A.T.u. were then Lena Katina needs no introduction beyond "she was the redhead lead for them". If you don't know who t.A.T.u. were, um... start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mGBaXPlri8 and come back in a bit. I remember when Lena's plaintive "This Is Not Enough!" stopped me in whatever I was doing. Now she's back and doing a solo project. It's different, I'll say that. You can listen to one of the tracks and a sample on her MySpace page.
OK, now that you're set you can hear the official cut of "Never Forget" off the YouTube page. It's a good deal more Euro-pop than the t.A.T.u. work, but it's still her strong vocals. And that at last brings me to the APC link, which is a Copycat (https://www.facebook.com/CopycatMusic) remix of that track. The remix picks up her voice and lifts it a bit to make room for more complex beats and interesting production. Despite having more of a DJ/producer feel, the vocals in the remix feel less harshly treated than in the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeN9KWYzE8Y&feature=player_embedded#!
And speaking of versions and remixes, here we have a double-shot of Gossip taken differently. First up, Triple-J hosted Gossip doing their cover of Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It?" Apparently they've been doing this in their live shows for some time. The version here is... OK. It's hard to beat Ms Turner and this take is a little bit more electro and drum-centric than I like. Still, hearing them do this is happy-making in that I'm glad it exists.
The second track is Classixx (http://classixx.la/) remixing Gossip's "Move In The Right Direction". As I said when I first blogged the original, it's a light disco-influenced piece. It's infectious dancey pop. The remix is very different, with almost all the vocals abstracted away. It's kind of airy trance-pop that ambles along in a pleasant enough way but I don't think it's superior to the original.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/08/major-lazer-get-free-the-video.html
Major Lazer is known for two things: wildness and freestlying. Given that, if this wasn't labeled as a Lazer track I would not have recognized it. It's a slow reggae/soul-infused female-vocal track paced like you'd expect for something shot in Jamaica, where it's more or less against the law to hurry.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/08/ladyhawke-blue-eyes-ron-flieger-remix.html
Back in April I noted a Scissor Sisters remix of Ladyhawke. This is Ron Flieger (http://ronflieger.com/) remixing her "Blue Eyes" and I like it. The remix makes the original sound very much like a Fleetwood Mac-era female-pop single, and then lays that down on some slammin' good dance beats. The combination works exceptionally well.
http://soundcloud.com/eliot_music/snap-the-power-eliot-mix
Another of my guilty pleasures is that I love Snap's original of "The Power" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6DO_7px1I). It's a delightful mash of all kinds of samples of American music styles, as seen by a European. So now ELIOT (or EL!OT) has done a kind of sped-up electro version that keeps many of the original's signature hooks and throws in some steel drums just for good measure.
http://www.myspace.com/lenakatinaofficial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5X2v0jGil0
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/09/lena-katina-never-forget-a-copycat-remix.html
If you know who t.A.T.u. were then Lena Katina needs no introduction beyond "she was the redhead lead for them". If you don't know who t.A.T.u. were, um... start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mGBaXPlri8 and come back in a bit. I remember when Lena's plaintive "This Is Not Enough!" stopped me in whatever I was doing. Now she's back and doing a solo project. It's different, I'll say that. You can listen to one of the tracks and a sample on her MySpace page.
OK, now that you're set you can hear the official cut of "Never Forget" off the YouTube page. It's a good deal more Euro-pop than the t.A.T.u. work, but it's still her strong vocals. And that at last brings me to the APC link, which is a Copycat (https://www.facebook.com/CopycatMusic) remix of that track. The remix picks up her voice and lifts it a bit to make room for more complex beats and interesting production. Despite having more of a DJ/producer feel, the vocals in the remix feel less harshly treated than in the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeN9KWYzE8Y&feature=player_embedded#!
And speaking of versions and remixes, here we have a double-shot of Gossip taken differently. First up, Triple-J hosted Gossip doing their cover of Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It?" Apparently they've been doing this in their live shows for some time. The version here is... OK. It's hard to beat Ms Turner and this take is a little bit more electro and drum-centric than I like. Still, hearing them do this is happy-making in that I'm glad it exists.
The second track is Classixx (http://classixx.la/) remixing Gossip's "Move In The Right Direction". As I said when I first blogged the original, it's a light disco-influenced piece. It's infectious dancey pop. The remix is very different, with almost all the vocals abstracted away. It's kind of airy trance-pop that ambles along in a pleasant enough way but I don't think it's superior to the original.
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