All Your Favorite Songs With A Different Sound! Remixed, Remade, Sampled!!!
Totally totally wicked track called Space Warrior that I stumbled onto after just listening to Fabriclive 41 the Simian Mobile Disco mix from a couple of years back. This track is just the wickedest, wildest recording ever. Takes me back to early 90s and then throws me back today now. I want to hear more from these guys but not much more is available. Anyone know anything about them?
Fabriclive 41: Simian Mobile Disco
– June 10, 2010
Billie Holiday’s version of Pennies From Heaven is my favorite compared to everyone else that’s done it. It’s so beautiful, calm mellow somewhat moody but very beautiful. When I heard of this remix from the Remixed and Reimagined CD I was quick to snatch it right up! I love remixes (if you haven’t noticed already) and will buy any remix of an existing song including the oldies. I was quite surprised at how good the Count De Money Remix is of Pennies From Heaven. I just wished it was longer. It almost feels or sounds like it starts in the middle. Those record execs and their stupid decisions to do such a thing. Give me the 12″ and day, longer versions pleeze! Either way though I shouldn’t complain because I can have my Billie Holiday songs remixed. The entire collection of Remixed and Reimagined is great. Worth it for anyone that likes remixes or is a Billie Holiday fan but not a purist. Came out in 2007.
Pennies From Heaven by Billie Holiday
Pennies From Heaven (Count De Money Remix) by Billie Holiday
Link to download the rest of the album from iTunes below. Just click the album cover!
– June 9, 2010
I love it when musicians take a song that’s so well known from an era with such a specific genre and put a new spin on it. This is the fact with Dalminjo Featuring Anja Oyen Vister covering The Smiths classic There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. Dalminjo is known for jazzy housed up club and electronic music and he’s remade this very well known Smiths track and made it housed up clubby but nothing too obnoxious with the beats sort of laidback but you know midtempo. This is the remixed version below as the original version is pretty mellow minimal. Check it out here with the original Smiths version. I like it and I do like it that he’s used Anja Oyen Vister to record the vocals so hearing this with female vocals is a pretty cool thing. What do you think?
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out by Dalminjo feat Anja Oyen Vister
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Posted in 2007, Album, Single.
– October 31, 2009
Disco will never go out of style! It’s here to stay forever and ever. That’s why musicians keep sampling famous tracks over and over again from the disco era! So Richard Dorfmeister (aka Kruder & Dorfmeister) and Madrid De Los Austrias have done an excellent sampling job on their track Boogie No More sampling the classic disco song Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Taste Of Honey. It’s perfect here and the Reverso 68 Remix is just awesome! The single also includes a Kraak & Smaak remix which is also pretty darn good. The Kraak & Smaak remix is a little more on the big beat side which makes both remixes completely different.
Check them both out below and while you are at it enjoy this live performance of A Taste Of Honey on youtube.
Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Taste Of Honey
Boogie No More (Reverso 68 Remix) by Dorfmeister Vs. Madrid de los Austrias
Any fan of disco should really own A Taste Of Honey’s greatest hits.
– October 30, 2009
I really do like this. Although I’ve been a pretty darn long time fan of Kraftwerk, James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem has taken the classic synth track from Germany’s Kraftwerk and sampled in his Gt Innocuous track. It’s a minimalist electro alternative cut that repeats the famous beats from Kraftwerk’s The Robots!
Get Innocuous is off of the Sound Of Silver album which has the hit track North American Scum a track that you’ve probably heard if you saw Step Brothers. Here’s the entire list of tracks from Sound Of Silver.
Get Innocuous!
Time To Get Away
North American Scum
Someone Great
All My Friends
Us V Them
Watch The Tapes
Sound Of Silver
New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
Check it out both to preview below!
Watch LCD Soundsystem perform Get Innocuous! live!
– September 17, 2009
This is awesome … from the great electro swing revival/movement happening in Europe now comes a great track called Midsummer Night Blues by Waldeck. Midsummer Night Blues is off of his album Ballroom Stories. It’s an excellently made album utilizing sounds from the great swing and jazz era with many samples and of course mostly electronica and pop elements with updated production an Midsummer Night Blues samples elements of great Gershwin track Summertime sung by so many great folks. The version I have below is the version by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. I felt that the music behind their version was the closest to the sampled sound from the Waldeck samples.
I could be wrong but it felt like it’s the right version.
Summertime by Ella Fitzgerald and Louie Armostrong
Midsummer Night Blues by Waldeck
Be sure to catch this great live version of Midsummer Night Blues in Vienna below. Then buy the entire album from Amazon as it’s awesome!
Or a live version in Bucharest Romania.
– July 8, 2009
Gosh? Whatever happened to Jody Watley? Well she’s still around and she’s done this awesome remake of the Chic disco classic. I think this is quite the remake – it’s excellent. It’s so good that it’s been on repeat for a while now. I’ve read that Nile Rodgers is actually done the guitar on this Jody Watley version of the Chich masterpiece from the 70s. The Jody Watley single contains so many remixes but my favorite is the Danny Krivit Original Re-Edit as it’s perfect to chill to it. It’s very similar to the Chic classic – it’s a laidback midtempo track. Here’s a list of the versions available from the Jody Watley release.
One listen to both versions and you’ll notice that it’s very similar except for the production sounds more current and the vocals are of course Jody Watley versus the Chic girls. The original comes off of the album C’est Chic.
The original Jody Watley version comes from the album The Makeover.
Check them out and let me know what you think of the two.
1. “I Want Your Love” (Soulcast Icon Mix)
2. “I Want Your Love” (Masi and Mellow Late Night Vocal Mix)
3. “I Want Your Love” (Morgan Page Sunset Strip Mix)
4. “I Want Your Love” (Angel Manuel Dirty Vox Mix)
5. “I Want Your Love” (Zoned Out Vintage Vox Mix)
6. “I Want Your Love” (Shawn Q Soltribe Mix)
7. “I Want Your Love” (Cristian Paduraru Vocal Mix)
8. “I Want Your Love” (Danny Krivit Edit)
9. “I Want Your Love” (Chin Digital House Party Mix)
10. “I Want Your Love” (Soulcast Radio Edit)
I Want Your Love (Danny Krivit Original Re-Edit) by Jody Watley
Make sure you catch this live performance of I Want Your Love performed by Jody Watley at the now closed down Virgin Megastore in San Francisco.
Oh and make sure you really do watch the original video of Chic doing I Want Your Love. It’s really CLASSIC!
Watcha think? If you like this post you might really enjoy Ring My Bell (Miss X Remix) by Miss X since they are both from the same era. You know?
Posted in 2007, Album, Single.
– July 6, 2009
I love the original of Europa And The Pirate Twins by Thomas Dolby. Even more than his bigger hit She Blinded Me With Science which as a kid I despised. It absolutely drove me crazy! But Europa And The Pirate Twins was awesome. Perfect synth Euro pop!
The original Europa And The Pirate Twins is off of the album The Golden Age Of Wireless album that also included the song She Blinded Me With Science. An awesome 80s classic worth owning if you don’t.
I do like this version by Sondre Lerche. It’s updated nicely but still doesn’t stand up to the original by Thomas Dolby. What do you think?
It’s on the single to Say It All which you can order from Amazon.
Europa And The Pirate Twins by Thomas Dolby
Europa And The Pirate Twins by Sondre Lerche
Check out the original video of the Thomas Dolby version.
– May 30, 2009
Sorry I do love MSTRKRFT but I hate this remix. For once I have to revert back to the original of version of a track and this is when I have to do it. This remix just does not go anywhere. What do you think? I think it sucks! I think The Crystal Method should have not even approved this remix. What were they thinking? This remix is on the 10th year anniversary of their Vegas CD and it’s quite lame. Lame Lame Lame. Awful. I’ll stick to the original on this one. Too bad though as it would have been great to hear some updated cut of this awesome track. No good to mix big beat with the sounds of electro. Hmm.
Watch the video for more memories…
The original brings back memories of 1997 though. Those were the good old days of electronic music. Oh well. Can’t have it all can we?
– April 5, 2009
If there ever was a remix contest I would put this remix by Trentemoller of the Robyn track Konichiwa Bitches at the very top. It’s excellent and it’s what a remix is all about. The original is cool but nothing to write home about – makes sense as it didn’t go anywhere on the charts when it was originally released so this Trentemoller remix puts new life into the song. I could see or hear this in the best clubs and it would perfect in a mix and to dance to. It’s got lots of hard bass and it definitely has the hard sleazy edge that Robyn has been pushing lately.
Don’t you think so?
Konichiwa Bitches by Robyn
Konichiwa Bitches (Trentmoller Remix) by Robyn
– March 22, 2009
I love this … I love the fact that a punk/rock/dance band has taken a electronic/dance song from the 90s and totally made it their own. It’s perfection. I remember listening to Not Over Yet by Grace back in the mid 90’s over and over again. The various remixes by BT, Danny Tenaglia, Dancing Divas and etc. This track was released off of Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto label – later on Reprise here in the states. And I remember listening to the many reincarnations of Not Over Yet – the tranced up versions that came out in 1999 as Planet Perfecto Presents Grace. Those were quite nice.
But this Klaxons version is perfect if not excellent. I love the guitars and the vocals – they are all perfectly blended together. Don’t you think? Check out the video as well.
This is off of their Myths Of The Near Future album.
Not Over Yet (Perfecto Mix) by Grace
It’s Not Over Yet by Klaxons
– March 8, 2009
This is such a beautiful piece of music as I love both the original by Henri Mancini and the remix by Zeb. It’s from a film that I have not seen called Gaily, Gaily but anything with Henry Mancini’s music is worth at least checking out. Well the music that is.
Zeb has added the jazzy downtempo touch to the original and spiced it up a little but still the original can be heard in the new remix.
This remix is off of the album Cinematic: Classic Film Music Remixed – and contains awesome chill, jazzy, moody downtempo cuts. I love the whole disc. The oddest cut off the disc is an updated remix of a track from the Carrie soundtrack. Boy that sure is creepy! But the disc is definitely worth owning for the rest of the cuts for sure.
What do you think of the two versions?
The Tango I Saved For You From Gaily Gaily by Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra/Henry Mancini
– March 7, 2009
Here’s a toned down synth remake of Paris, France’s Belle Epoque’s Miss Broadway. Miss Broadway was Belle Epoque’s second hit in the 70s and the only hit in the US. Glass Candy has remade the track and contributed to the After Dark compilation for the Italians Do It Better! label. It’s a really fun version but quite chill and mellow compared to the original by Belle Epoque.
I do enjoy Glass Candy’s music alot and their album Beat Box which also contains a cover of the Krafwerk classic Computer Love. Most of their music is pretty toned down and mellow – nothing to really get the party started. Mostly for winding down which is good.
The After Dark compilation includes a bunch of great tracks in the synth electronic style including a cover of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life which is one of my all time favorite disco songs.
So tell me what you think of the two versions. Come on feel to comment.
Check out Glass Candy live performing Miss Broadway!
– March 5, 2009
Justin Timberlake’s Rock Your Body is a fun disco inspired pop track and was a huge hit for him. But when Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra remade it they changed the sound and made it mostly instrumental. It still sounds like Rock Your Body but now they’ve added a loungy, jazzy touch to it with a Latin inspired big band groove. You can still hear that the 70s sound is still there.
What Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra has done with all the tracks on Hits The Hits is taken all popular tracks by pop artists and made it all something you can play in the background without and of the lyrics getting in the way too much. It’s the perfect background music if you want the hits but you don’t want the lyrics.
It’s a great collection and it’s similar to other collections like the popular Nouvelle Vague series of 80s new wave tracks remade jazzy and loungy. Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra’s Hits The Hits is a fun, hip lively collection of pop tracks and Rock Your Body is one of the better cuts on the disc.
Check it out and let me know what you think of this version compared to Timberlake’s version.
Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake
– February 22, 2009
Ok so now we have Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons getting into the remix game. This one is remixed by Pilooski from France. And you know what I do like it. I love this and I loved hearing it all over the radio in France while I was visiting in December. It’s nice and energetic and it’s fun. The only thing is the version I kept hearing on the radio in France had a rap in the track but I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Either way I now am anxious to know if they are going to do more remixes because I like what I hear here with this track. Perhaps they’ll do a remix of Can’t Take My Eyes Off You? Maybe not – the Pet Shop Boys did that already!
The music is still pretty much the same but as you are probably are aware there’s the added oomph factor to this remix and the the fact that they’ve kept the music pretty much the same it’s pretty amazing. Nice beats and perfect for party time! White boy soul music remixed.
I love it. What do you think? Do you like the original or the remix? I’d say the remix!
Beggin by Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons
Beggin (Pilloski Remix) by Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons
Check out the two videos for this song as they are quite fun.
– February 11, 2009
Well this is some remix and I absolutely love this and I’m really glad that Boys Noize did this and included it on their album Oi Oi Oi. It’s been beefed up quite nicely by Boys Noize and made into something more accessible than the original flat sounding Feist track off of her The Reminder set. That’s the kind of stuff you hear on pop radio. I’m not sure if they played this on pop radio but it sounds like that it could be coming off radio speakers.
The build up is quite nice here and the addition of the robotic noises is perfect with the shoe and running sound effects in the background. I love the robotic vo repeating My Moon My Man. It makes the track more futuristic and electronic against Feist’s voice. Then the beats kick in and you have this great remix.
This is the type of remix that’ perfect for Destroy Rock And Roll – when the track is not what it used to be.
Check it out … let me know what you think of the two.
– February 10, 2009
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