Finding a remix of one of my favorite songs by INXS let alone one of my favorite songs of the 80s was a pretty cool thing and I love this remix/remake of the INXS song Original Sin by Kash. Whos is Kash? I don’t really know but they’ve got a great bouncy club remake of this awesome new wave masterpiece. The song that put INXS on the map off of their first album has been given the remix treatment. The original version is off the INXS album The Swing from 1984.
Check out both Original Sin and remix version below:
I love me some remakes and this one is awesome. It’s the classic downtempo/swing jazz classic by Mr. Scruff remade by the very cool and groovy The Quantic Soul Orchestra. I love it! It’s lively, danceable and has a very retro organ sound to it. Very similar to their sound which I truly love so this version rocks! Check them both out below at the link. This remake of Get A Move On by The Quantic Soul Orchestra is off of the Tru Thoughts Covers album that’s come out a couple of months back. If you like covers, remakes or remixes then this album is definitely worth it! It’s also on The Quantic Soul Orchestra album Pushin On.
BTW The Quantic Soul Orchestra or Quantic is mostly Will Holland.
This remix to the very dark Let No Man Jack by DJ Hell is pretty darn cool. It’s slow, very bassy and hard. Almost to the point of a dark sleazy industrial cut from the electro godfather of International Deejay Gigolos record label owner. DJ Hell’s new album Teufelswerk has been out for quite a while now but it’s still has not grown on me. So wanted to go back in time and pull a cut from his last album NY Muscle which is a pretty darn cool album if you haven’t heard it yet. Check out both versions of Let No Man Jack below.
Pump Up The Jam the original version which came out in 1998 was a early Belgian house club classic that actually played on the radio. It became a worldwide smash hit going all the way to the top of the pop charts. This new version a remix by D.O.N.S. which is actually several years old now is a fresh take on the original hit by Technotronic. It’s got a more modern beat to it and it’s more in line with the sound of the clubs now. I like it but there’s something about the original that still takes me back to the days of acid house, new beat and an awesome era in club music. Both worth owning. Check them out below.
The original Pump Up The Jam is off of the Technotronic album of the same name.
Girl And The Sea by the Presets from their Beams albums is such a mellow beautiful midtempo vocal track compared to the rest of the tracks on the Beam album. It’s one of those tracks that totally stands out from everything else and it’s the track you keep listening to. So when a remix comes along like this remix by Cut Copy it doesn’t really compare unfortunately. It’s a pretty darn good remix but if I had to choose between both versions I’d pick the original. What do you think?
The remix is from The Presets Re-Sets album which is worth owning. Their are remixes by some awesome names like ascii.disko, Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism and The Juan Maclean. So I highly recommend both the album Beams and Re-Sets for any electro, synth pop/dance lover. Listen to the tracks takes me back to when I was 15 years old in 1986! What a fun time!
Louie Vega does a great cover of the disco classic Thousand Finger Man by Candido. Love this very Latin inspired track as was the original by Candido. This track comes right off the Elements Of Life “Extensions’ CD which I highly recommend for a bunch of other awesome tracks by Louie Vega all remixed. Sexy Latin inspired house music. This Thousand Fingered Man and along with the Mon Amour (DJ Gregory Remix)are the winners on the release. Pretty darn cool.
Jungle Fever (ATOJ Remix)
Cerca De Mi (Kenny Dope Remix)
Sunshine (Sacred Rhythm Mix)
Ma Mi Mama (FreeForm U Heirs Vox Mix)
Let The Children Play
Love Is On The Way (Roots Mix)
Journey’s Prelude (NuLife Remix)
Thousand Fingered Man
Mon Amour (DJ Gregory Remix)
Mozalounge (Jazz-N-Groove Extended Album Mix)
Nos Vida (MAW Remix)
A Better Day (DJ Spinna Remix)
Steel Congo
Check out both versions of Thousand Fingered Man below. Well the Candido version is called Thousand Finger Man!
After four years I still dig this track. From the legendary label Ghostly International this is a great electro/synth pop track and the remix by Alter Ego rocks. Alter Ego in top form here and this the original and the remix are certainly worth owning and worth having in any collection.
I love this! The old tired Tears For Fears track that’s been so overplayed gets the awesome remix treatment. It’s not anything cutting edge here just straight on club beats and very nice, fast and energetic. It’s the kind of track you probably would be hearing in a mix that you’ve been dancing to for quite a while.
I found this remix on a compilation called Stonewall which is a pretty generic mix of music pop dance music that was not excellent but did the job of serving up tasty pop, dance, remix club hits.
But the single is available if you can find it somewhere. I’m looking myself since the version of this track I have below at the link is taken from (obviously) a mix CD so it’s not the entire track but you’ll still get the idea. Check it out and compare it to the original.
I love this remake of Que Sera by Wax Tailor! Taking an old song especially like an old cheerful, bright and happy Doris Day song and remaking it in this style is awesome.
Wax Tailor is a French Trip-Hop/Hip Hop producer/artists that’s released several eps and albums and this is one of my favorite remakes as of recently – last couple of years. He’s worked with folks like Sharon Jones and Ursula Rucker. This track comes off of his first full album Tales From The Forgotten Melodies. Check it out as it’s a great release. For true Trip-Hop and Downtempo fans with Hip Hop flavor!
I love taking a punk rock song and remixing the hell out of it and make it a fucking cool awesome dance club song. Such is the example of this track by The Gossip. Playgroup who back in 2002 released a really awesome self titled album of electro funky dance pop. It’s a great album and worth checking out if you haven’t. I have the double CD version pictured below which you should def. own that has lots of great remixes.
Playgroup actually did major wonders to this track – he (Trevor Jackson) has added a very early 90’s sound to the remix and It’s rocking. Well in a remix way. Check it out and let me know what you think? You like? Let me know
This is a pretty good reinterpretation of the the classical masterpiece by the French impressionist composer, Debussy. One of my favorite composers so it’s always nice to hear remakes of Debussy’s music. 10 years ago The Art Of Noise released an album called The Seduction Of Claude Debussy which was actually pretty good. So if you haven’t heard of it check it out especially if you are either a fan of Debussy or The Art Of Noise.
This version comes from the Rouge Remixed album and it’s available for download from eMusic. Click the eMusic link above and search for Rouge Remixed.
What do you think of this version by Sebastien Tellier?
Just One Of Those Things (Brazilian Girls Remix) by Blossom Dearie is off of the Verve Remixed 3 release. The series basically takes old jazz recordings and updates them with current musicians mostly producing electronic music. I love the series myself very much and all 4 albums now (there’s been 4 releases so far – the last came out last year) and 1 bonus album have some really great updates on them so they are certainly worth checking out if you haven’t. I have all four definitely and will continue as long as they continue – which is what I’m hoping for.
This remix by Brazilian Girls is pretty intense – the original has the light jazz intensity but Brazilian Girls have taken the track and really sped it up. Which I really do like because you have a jazz track on SPEED. Love it. I’ve been a fan of Blossom Dearie since I first heard this track so I’ve been really enjoying her regular jazz music. But this is the track that got me introduced to her cute little jazzy voice.
Check it out – see what you think of the two versions. Let me know what you think.
This is such a classic track by Yaz and I really dig all the remixes that have surfaced of this track over the years. Brings back the great synth pop dance memories of the 80s. Well of course the original is still the best but the remixes are all really good too if not a little better than the original.
You have the 1991 single that has a great dubby/bassy remix by Youth. Then for the greatest hits package it was remixed by Club 69 which is actually not one of my favorite mixes of Situation. Then it was remixed for the Future Retro compilation by Richard X which is actually one of my favorites. It kept the original sounds as much as possible but Richard X increased the speed a bit so it’s quite nice and upbeat. Very electronic. Well the original was quite electronic which was perfect on it’s own but this Richard X version is something else.
The Club 69 version has been housed up too much and stripped away from the synth pop sound which turns me off. Don’t get me wrong I do love Club 69 and his music and remixes but this one is just not the strongest. Sounds a bit tired as well. It’s the usual Club 69 house sound that you’ve probably heard countless times.
The Don’t Go/Situation single from 1999 also contains the Richard Humpty Vission remix too but just was actually worse than the Club 69 remix. There’s also a one version remixed by Dave Ralph. Again sort of boring and tired.
We have the below four. What do you think? Which is your favorite? Feel free to leave your comments.
It seems Yaz, Yazoo in the UK have this great new box set. Their only two albums and third disc with b-sides and remixes. All remastered! Yum, we should snatch that up! Check it out below at Amazon.
I do like The Killers – well when they are remixed. I don’t hear everything of their remixed but when I find out that there’s a remix for a song then I make sure I snatch it up because I know they will be great. Especially since this is remixed by Stuart Price aka Jacques Lu Cont aka Thin White Duke. I like his remix style very much and his producing style is great as well. Madonna’s Confessions On A Dancefloor and remixes of that album were cool and of course who can forget the Les Rhythmes Digitales. So Stuart Price is in top form for this remix and this remix has so much fun energy and great singing from The Killers frontman. It’s definitely worth hearing owning. Check it out and compare it to the original. I think the remix is far superior! Don’t you?
I figured my first post on Destroy Rock and Roll should be Destroy Rock and Roll – the Tom Neville Remix. I do like the original off of the Destroy Rock and Roll album by Mylo and it’s perfect! That album is one of my all time favorite albums from this decade if not forever. It’s perfection!
This remix is alot more boompsy and not as flat as the original – the original to me is just a pop album cut. Well the version below is the edit from the album. This remix has the ultra hard bass which makes it perfect for clubs. Right? Compare it to the original and you’ll see what I mean.
Don’t you just love remixes, remakes covers? Don’t you love it when a musician samples a famous recording and incorporate it into theirs? I love it … I absolutely love taking old recordings and making something completely new to with them. Who needs it to sound like everything else that’s blasting out of the radio [...]more →
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