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Once again with the late music
Feb. 27th, 2012 11:53 amTaking Fridays off means I move more stuff into the other four days so I often don't get extra time at the end of the week to put a music post together. Start of the week can be slow, and we just cancelled one meeting, so here we go. We'll start off with three versions of songs I really like, hear from one well-known act, then listen to one powerful and one beautiful new voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRy_ioyIW0Y
This is actually an older mix, dating from mid-last year when Daft Punk's TRON tracks were being remixed all over the place. Fissunix takes DP's "end of the line BoyGenius Remix" and slams it up against "I Am The Walrus." The TRON soundtrack pieces all have a slightly weird and eerie feel to them and Walrus has always been one of the odder Beatles pieces. Now turn all that weird up to 11 and lay it over a medium-BPM and add in a couple of weird vocal samples. Presto! (h/t DJ Purple for the pointer)
http://thissongissick.com/blog/2011/red-hot-chili-peppers-dani-california-manic-focus-remix-official-release/
"Dani California" has been my favorite RHCP tune since it came out, displacing several great tracks they'd done previously. It has song-story structure, which I like, good vocal ranges (for me), excellent instrumentation and a soaring chorus. Sadly, it hasn't received a lot of remix attention and what it has received has largely... um... sucked. After listening to yet another crap remix I said "c'mon, someone has to have done a good job" and went looking. Google led me to this by Manic Focus (http://manicfocus.com/, http://soundcloud.com/manicfocus), the DJ name of one John McCarten. ThisSongIsSick calls it "chillstep" which is a great portmanteau. The remix has certain dubstep tropes, but avoids the heavy wub and instead keeps it low-key and chill.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/02/roxy-music-love-is-the-drug-todd-terje-disco-dub.html
Roxy Music's "Love is the Drug" is one of the core disco tunes I remember from the mid-70s. It was also the first R.M. tune to be played heavily in the US, and Grace Jones' cover in 1908 didn't hurt any. This is a nu-disco extended remix by Todd Terje and it's kind of a love homage to the original. A must-have for Ferry fans.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/02/cypress-x-rusko-roll-it-light-it.html
When rap music came up in the Confessional nobody mentioned Cypress Hill, which was really a shame. They've been interesting and provocative and cutting edge for years, often doing things first that other rap acts would then imitate. Now they're setting out on another new frontier, teaming up with dubstep DJ Rusko (http://www.ruskoonfire.com/) to bring their high-speed vocals and unashamed lyrics to lay down over some intense bass/dub lines. This is the first single of what is promised to be a 5-track EP.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/02/sykur-curling-database-remix.html
Sykur (http://www.facebook.com/sykurtheband) an Icelandic quartet that combines light vocals with electro-disco main lines gets remixed by Database, a Brazilian electro duo. The result is definitely electro, but comes out stronger and punchier than you'd expect. The girl has pipes; I'll give her that. I'm just not convinced that the electro-fuzz works for this.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/02/nawel-nightcall-kavinsky-cover.html
Finally comes Nawel (http://www.facebook.com/Nawelmusique) doing her minimalist acoustic cover of Kavinsky’s "Nighcall". The original (http://www.last.fm/music/Kavinsky/_/Nightcall) is an electro-house track that is known both for being produced by half of Daft Punk (and having the heavy thud you'd expect from that) and for being the title track for the movie Drive. Swapping out the electronics and thump track for xylophone and acoustic guitar gives this cover a very odd feel but it does let Nawel's vocals shine, while keeping some of the essential darkess of the original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRy_ioyIW0Y
This is actually an older mix, dating from mid-last year when Daft Punk's TRON tracks were being remixed all over the place. Fissunix takes DP's "end of the line BoyGenius Remix" and slams it up against "I Am The Walrus." The TRON soundtrack pieces all have a slightly weird and eerie feel to them and Walrus has always been one of the odder Beatles pieces. Now turn all that weird up to 11 and lay it over a medium-BPM and add in a couple of weird vocal samples. Presto! (h/t DJ Purple for the pointer)
http://thissongissick.com/blog/2011/red-hot-chili-peppers-dani-california-manic-focus-remix-official-release/
"Dani California" has been my favorite RHCP tune since it came out, displacing several great tracks they'd done previously. It has song-story structure, which I like, good vocal ranges (for me), excellent instrumentation and a soaring chorus. Sadly, it hasn't received a lot of remix attention and what it has received has largely... um... sucked. After listening to yet another crap remix I said "c'mon, someone has to have done a good job" and went looking. Google led me to this by Manic Focus (http://manicfocus.com/, http://soundcloud.com/manicfocus), the DJ name of one John McCarten. ThisSongIsSick calls it "chillstep" which is a great portmanteau. The remix has certain dubstep tropes, but avoids the heavy wub and instead keeps it low-key and chill.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/02/roxy-music-love-is-the-drug-todd-terje-disco-dub.html
Roxy Music's "Love is the Drug" is one of the core disco tunes I remember from the mid-70s. It was also the first R.M. tune to be played heavily in the US, and Grace Jones' cover in 1908 didn't hurt any. This is a nu-disco extended remix by Todd Terje and it's kind of a love homage to the original. A must-have for Ferry fans.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/02/cypress-x-rusko-roll-it-light-it.html
When rap music came up in the Confessional nobody mentioned Cypress Hill, which was really a shame. They've been interesting and provocative and cutting edge for years, often doing things first that other rap acts would then imitate. Now they're setting out on another new frontier, teaming up with dubstep DJ Rusko (http://www.ruskoonfire.com/) to bring their high-speed vocals and unashamed lyrics to lay down over some intense bass/dub lines. This is the first single of what is promised to be a 5-track EP.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/02/sykur-curling-database-remix.html
Sykur (http://www.facebook.com/sykurtheband) an Icelandic quartet that combines light vocals with electro-disco main lines gets remixed by Database, a Brazilian electro duo. The result is definitely electro, but comes out stronger and punchier than you'd expect. The girl has pipes; I'll give her that. I'm just not convinced that the electro-fuzz works for this.
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/02/nawel-nightcall-kavinsky-cover.html
Finally comes Nawel (http://www.facebook.com/Nawelmusique) doing her minimalist acoustic cover of Kavinsky’s "Nighcall". The original (http://www.last.fm/music/Kavinsky/_/Nightcall) is an electro-house track that is known both for being produced by half of Daft Punk (and having the heavy thud you'd expect from that) and for being the title track for the movie Drive. Swapping out the electronics and thump track for xylophone and acoustic guitar gives this cover a very odd feel but it does let Nawel's vocals shine, while keeping some of the essential darkess of the original.
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