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Old friends, new friends (music)
May. 16th, 2011 02:24 pmI have another huge backlog of open music tabs. This is all over the place, so let's start with some new stuff.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Parenthetical_Girls/track/Careful_Who_You_Dance_With_Xiu_Xiu_Remix
Parenthetical Girls are new to me, though the Intarwebs says they've been around in one form or another for almost ten years. The present incarnation is very much post-grunge Northwest USA sound, which is about equal parts pop, intense young-male vocal, electro, and smooth post-production. The sound is rich and complex - it reminds me somewhat of early REM meets OK Go. If that doesn't make sense to you, then just listen and see if you like it.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Gang_Gang_Dance/track/MindKilla
Gang Gang Dance (http://ganggangdance.com/) is another new-to-me act that has been around for a decade. Very different sound than P.G., though. This one tends toward heavy-bass and strong female vocals with interesting, sparse, and varied electronica backing. The set of styles on this mix is all over, including rasta-rapping from Tinchy Stryder, and lovely a capella harmonies on "House Jam" (the original), and Bjork-esque breathy bits on "MindKilla".
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/04/colatron-vs-reborn-identity-we-still-miss-you-double-pack.html
Trentemøller's "Miss You" has been a familiar friend for a couple years now. It's a little melancholy, but very beautiful. Perfect rainy summer-day music, I think. Or winter fireplace music, come to that. Here APC offers up two remix takes on the original. The first one is Colatron's "Someone’s Still Missing" and it does the trick of taking the Cubism Remix of the song, and mixing back in the original, but also drawing heavily on Vangelis's "Rachel's Song" and closing out with a sample from Blade Runner that just ties it all up beautifully.
The second is Reborn Identity's "I’ve Still Never Missed You" and it goes in a wholly different direction, using Charlene Duncan's "I’ve Never Been to Me". As you'd expect, this one has much more of an 80's pop feel to it and yet somehow the Trentemoller melancholy still permeates the track. I think it's not as good as the first but that's because I'm a closet Vangelis fangeek.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/04/depeche-mode-personal-jesus-the-stargate-remix.html
I can't believe I somehow missed blogging this when I was talking about Royksopp's D.M. cover. This isn't a cover - it's the boys themselves, remixed. I might have mentioned that I spent a lot of time listening to D.M. back in the day. Somewhere along there I became convinced that "Personal Jesus" is a song about phone sex; of course, there's an "official" answer but that's kind of dull. This mix really makes me want to hear more of what they have in store - apparently there's a three CD set of remixes due out next month.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/04/ben-double-m-policy-of-truth-miami-heat.html
It's apparently Depeche Mode month. Here we have Ben Double M working DM's "Policy of Truth" against Boy Hagemann’s beautiful electro-trance "Miami Heat" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_VJ1K_xLfg). The result is smooth and floaty and still just a little bit intense. I particularly like the way he spreads and stretches the DM tune to fit over the longer Hageman track without making it seem slowed down or unnaturally drawn out.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/05/illegal-sunday-fissunix-end-of-the-walrus.html
This one is just a little bit brain-busting. Imagine taking Daft Punk's "End of the Line" from the recent Tron: Legacy, mixing in sound bits from Tron and Battlestar Galactica, and then mashing it up over The Beatles's original psychedelia "I am the Walrus." Yeah, it's that level of weird, but Fissunix makes it work.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Parenthetical_Girls/track/Careful_Who_You_Dance_With_Xiu_Xiu_Remix
Parenthetical Girls are new to me, though the Intarwebs says they've been around in one form or another for almost ten years. The present incarnation is very much post-grunge Northwest USA sound, which is about equal parts pop, intense young-male vocal, electro, and smooth post-production. The sound is rich and complex - it reminds me somewhat of early REM meets OK Go. If that doesn't make sense to you, then just listen and see if you like it.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Gang_Gang_Dance/track/MindKilla
Gang Gang Dance (http://ganggangdance.com/) is another new-to-me act that has been around for a decade. Very different sound than P.G., though. This one tends toward heavy-bass and strong female vocals with interesting, sparse, and varied electronica backing. The set of styles on this mix is all over, including rasta-rapping from Tinchy Stryder, and lovely a capella harmonies on "House Jam" (the original), and Bjork-esque breathy bits on "MindKilla".
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/04/colatron-vs-reborn-identity-we-still-miss-you-double-pack.html
Trentemøller's "Miss You" has been a familiar friend for a couple years now. It's a little melancholy, but very beautiful. Perfect rainy summer-day music, I think. Or winter fireplace music, come to that. Here APC offers up two remix takes on the original. The first one is Colatron's "Someone’s Still Missing" and it does the trick of taking the Cubism Remix of the song, and mixing back in the original, but also drawing heavily on Vangelis's "Rachel's Song" and closing out with a sample from Blade Runner that just ties it all up beautifully.
The second is Reborn Identity's "I’ve Still Never Missed You" and it goes in a wholly different direction, using Charlene Duncan's "I’ve Never Been to Me". As you'd expect, this one has much more of an 80's pop feel to it and yet somehow the Trentemoller melancholy still permeates the track. I think it's not as good as the first but that's because I'm a closet Vangelis fangeek.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/04/depeche-mode-personal-jesus-the-stargate-remix.html
I can't believe I somehow missed blogging this when I was talking about Royksopp's D.M. cover. This isn't a cover - it's the boys themselves, remixed. I might have mentioned that I spent a lot of time listening to D.M. back in the day. Somewhere along there I became convinced that "Personal Jesus" is a song about phone sex; of course, there's an "official" answer but that's kind of dull. This mix really makes me want to hear more of what they have in store - apparently there's a three CD set of remixes due out next month.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/04/ben-double-m-policy-of-truth-miami-heat.html
It's apparently Depeche Mode month. Here we have Ben Double M working DM's "Policy of Truth" against Boy Hagemann’s beautiful electro-trance "Miami Heat" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_VJ1K_xLfg). The result is smooth and floaty and still just a little bit intense. I particularly like the way he spreads and stretches the DM tune to fit over the longer Hageman track without making it seem slowed down or unnaturally drawn out.
http://audioporncentral.com/2011/05/illegal-sunday-fissunix-end-of-the-walrus.html
This one is just a little bit brain-busting. Imagine taking Daft Punk's "End of the Line" from the recent Tron: Legacy, mixing in sound bits from Tron and Battlestar Galactica, and then mashing it up over The Beatles's original psychedelia "I am the Walrus." Yeah, it's that level of weird, but Fissunix makes it work.
