It's always nice when two musical worlds collide. At the end of the 90s I was hugely into Death in Vegas, which you can roughly translate as a post-bigbeat outfit blending rock, britpop, dance, reggae and whatnot in their mix. They disappeared off the radar to come back as Richard Fearless' soloproject last year, releasing an amazing comeback-album. And now Richard is remixing a track by one of the artists of whose label I basicly check every single release. Listen to it hear, it's a tad spooky, but I love it.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Lonsdale Boys Club - Light Me Up (GRUM Remix)
Glad to see another remix by Grum, who has been DJ'ing at our clubnight at LVC some time ago. This is a 'feel good' as housemusic gets, I suppose.
Aeroplane - Caramellas (Joakim Remix)
A favourite producer who still got unmentioned here is Aeroplane. This is their pinnacle, in a new remix by Joakim. The original is easily one of my favourite dancetracks of the last 5 year or so, but Joakim does a good job here. He's one of the few remixers I'd trust getting away with this anyway (having his sublime remixes for Antena en Max Berlin in mind). Too bad Aeroplane split up 2 years ago: I like Aeroplane V2.0 and The Magician, but none of them isn't as good as Aeroplane in their best days.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Moonbootica - Iconic (Lorenz Rhode Remix)
Lorenz Rhode's remix for Yelle (La Musique) really was one of my favourite remixes of last year or maybe even 2010. The track lasted really long among my topfavourites. And I suspect this one will do too. His website mentions Rick James and Chaka Khan and it's not easy to dismiss those influences because this is funky as hell. What a great vibe and what a nice rhythm. Rhode's a recent discovery to me, but he's certain in the center of my attention now!
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Jeremy Greenspan - Guu
...and now for something different, as there's a more experimental side to my tastes too.
Jeremy Greenspan is part of Junior Boys, a Canadian band who've made some really deep sophisticated electropop. I'm especially a fan of their albums Last Exit and This is Goodbye, the latter being the most delicate. I know they were into dancemusic themselves: they mixed an album in the Body Language series and always pick out excellent remixers for their singles. But I didn't know Jeremy has a soloproject going on as well.
Guu is a surprisingly sparse track, I could imagine it'd be the basis of a Junior Boys-track before it got poppified. The drumprogramming even reminds me a little of Plastikman's Spastik. But Guu isn't your particular dance. It doesn't have the routinal generic in- and outro, but basicly starts right off. I'm curious about any other solo efforts by Jeremy, this one surely has my interest.
Jeremy Greenspan is part of Junior Boys, a Canadian band who've made some really deep sophisticated electropop. I'm especially a fan of their albums Last Exit and This is Goodbye, the latter being the most delicate. I know they were into dancemusic themselves: they mixed an album in the Body Language series and always pick out excellent remixers for their singles. But I didn't know Jeremy has a soloproject going on as well.
Guu is a surprisingly sparse track, I could imagine it'd be the basis of a Junior Boys-track before it got poppified. The drumprogramming even reminds me a little of Plastikman's Spastik. But Guu isn't your particular dance. It doesn't have the routinal generic in- and outro, but basicly starts right off. I'm curious about any other solo efforts by Jeremy, this one surely has my interest.
The Hacker - Shockwave (Gesaffelstein Remix)
A musical inspiration, both taste- and blogwise, is Simon Reynolds. The man seems to have an innummerable amount of blogs, one for each part of his broad taste. It's through his blissblog I got track of this banging Gesaffelstein remix. I have to say I was surprised to hear The Hacker has made a track which sounds more 1992 than anything back then did. I used to like The Hacker a lot in the early 00s, but at some point he lost the magic touch for me and he disappeared of my radar.
The full EP is surely worth checking out: it even includes a remix by Altern8's Mark Archer. This Gestaffelstein-remix really does me in though. I can't wait to play this in a DJ-set.
The full EP is surely worth checking out: it even includes a remix by Altern8's Mark Archer. This Gestaffelstein-remix really does me in though. I can't wait to play this in a DJ-set.
Reese & Santonio / 101 - Rock To The Beat
I was about to write a little something about 101's Rock To The Beat, a new discovered dance tune which was apparently *the* Belgian new beat anthem, when I discovered it's a cover. So I guess I'll post both the original and cover here.
Both the original by Kevin Saunderson and Santonio Echols (artistname: Reese & Santonio) and cover are from 1988. 101's version seems a bit more prononciated, musicwise, adding vocals (including the 'aciiiid' and 'ecstacyyy'-shoutouts) and putting in a heavier synthline, whereas the original doesn't have these extras and is more focused on the groove itself. I do appreciate the pioneering craftwork of the original, but I really love the dark, sentimental and powerful vibe of 101's version. Maybe it's the new wave/ebm influence (a genre that was huge in Belgium) that's to blame for.
Both the original by Kevin Saunderson and Santonio Echols (artistname: Reese & Santonio) and cover are from 1988. 101's version seems a bit more prononciated, musicwise, adding vocals (including the 'aciiiid' and 'ecstacyyy'-shoutouts) and putting in a heavier synthline, whereas the original doesn't have these extras and is more focused on the groove itself. I do appreciate the pioneering craftwork of the original, but I really love the dark, sentimental and powerful vibe of 101's version. Maybe it's the new wave/ebm influence (a genre that was huge in Belgium) that's to blame for.
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