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Trimming music tabs, part 2 - The Singles
Jul. 31st, 2018 12:02 pmOK, having just said I'm mostly listening to DJ sets and podcasts, let me now try to bring forth a few individual tracks for listening.
https://soundcloud.com/westwoodrecordings/fort-knox-five-give-it-a-minute
Fort Knox Five doing their funky thing. This one is kind of low-down twangy. It feels like I've heard the track - "Give It A Minute" before but I couldn't find an antecedent. Maybe it's that it sounds like a lot of FK5 music or maybe that it sounds like a lot of things that get sampled often.
https://soundcloud.com/likamorgan/sets/sweet-dreams
Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" also gets sampled a lot, but not often remixed. Here are two takes on Lika Morgan's EDM cover of it (original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz2DZC_yPSU). Of the two I like the first better, possibly even more than I like the original mix, which manages to be both over-thumpy and still kind of randomly glitchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tdnDFiTysk
Back Avicii died I noted that he'd had some big tracks. Some of those have been appearing in tributes. Here's a live cut of Tiesto, himself a giant in the club DJ scene, doing a major riff on Avicii's "Waiting for Love". I like that this is an extended track, and not just a quick redo. It feels like a proper tribute and I'm glad to have found it. Some of the tracks mixed in I recognized and are clear (e.g. Tim Berg's "Seek Bromance"). Also, that's a hell of a stage show, from what I can see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcfIG_86MU
While I was researching tributes I came across this, and wanted to share. It's another EDM big name, Markus Schulz, doing a remix of Linkin Park's "In the End" as a tribute to Chester Bennington. I'm not sure this would have worked as a studio-produced track. It's very high BPM and I'm not convinced translating rock tracks to EDM styles works. But in this live clip you can hear the audience singing along and really being into it. Ultimately, that's what it's about, I think. Artistry doesn't exist in the abstract, it exists between the artist and the audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTLTXDHrgtw
Janelle Monae's current and very popular "Dirty Computer" made me want to see what she'd been doing just prior to that, as I'd kind of lost track. This "Venus Fly" from Grimes features Monae doing her thing in full color and style last year. It's very interesting musically, bringing several different influences together. I really like the costuming and strong saturated colors here - it feels like many of the same things that ended up in Dirty Computer. The music is obviously hip-hop with a strong tribal drumming... oh, and don't miss the solo violin bits. Grimes is a Canadian musician and visual artist worth checking out in her own right.
https://soundcloud.com/westwoodrecordings/fort-knox-five-give-it-a-minute
Fort Knox Five doing their funky thing. This one is kind of low-down twangy. It feels like I've heard the track - "Give It A Minute" before but I couldn't find an antecedent. Maybe it's that it sounds like a lot of FK5 music or maybe that it sounds like a lot of things that get sampled often.
https://soundcloud.com/likamorgan/sets/sweet-dreams
Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" also gets sampled a lot, but not often remixed. Here are two takes on Lika Morgan's EDM cover of it (original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz2DZC_yPSU). Of the two I like the first better, possibly even more than I like the original mix, which manages to be both over-thumpy and still kind of randomly glitchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tdnDFiTysk
Back Avicii died I noted that he'd had some big tracks. Some of those have been appearing in tributes. Here's a live cut of Tiesto, himself a giant in the club DJ scene, doing a major riff on Avicii's "Waiting for Love". I like that this is an extended track, and not just a quick redo. It feels like a proper tribute and I'm glad to have found it. Some of the tracks mixed in I recognized and are clear (e.g. Tim Berg's "Seek Bromance"). Also, that's a hell of a stage show, from what I can see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcfIG_86MU
While I was researching tributes I came across this, and wanted to share. It's another EDM big name, Markus Schulz, doing a remix of Linkin Park's "In the End" as a tribute to Chester Bennington. I'm not sure this would have worked as a studio-produced track. It's very high BPM and I'm not convinced translating rock tracks to EDM styles works. But in this live clip you can hear the audience singing along and really being into it. Ultimately, that's what it's about, I think. Artistry doesn't exist in the abstract, it exists between the artist and the audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTLTXDHrgtw
Janelle Monae's current and very popular "Dirty Computer" made me want to see what she'd been doing just prior to that, as I'd kind of lost track. This "Venus Fly" from Grimes features Monae doing her thing in full color and style last year. It's very interesting musically, bringing several different influences together. I really like the costuming and strong saturated colors here - it feels like many of the same things that ended up in Dirty Computer. The music is obviously hip-hop with a strong tribal drumming... oh, and don't miss the solo violin bits. Grimes is a Canadian musician and visual artist worth checking out in her own right.
I write a lot about dance music, mostly because I find that to be an interesting set of genres. One of the surest metrics for 'goodness' in music I listen to is "does it move me?" If I'm moved then there's a much higher chance I'll like it. What measures 'goodness' in music for you?
I write a lot about dance music, mostly because I find that to be an interesting set of genres. One of the surest metrics for 'goodness' in music I listen to is "does it move me?" If I'm moved then there's a much higher chance I'll like it. What measures 'goodness' in music for you?
