Remixes Revisited

POW! Some time ago we did a piece about remixes, basically saying that when they are done properly, they are an amazing and noble art form.

HOWEVER.

That was then, this is now.

In remix world, time moves way faster than 45rpm, meaning that one must keep their ear firmly pressed to the ground in order to keep up with the best rubs, dubs and edits.

Now, we haven’t had our ears anywhere near the ground since last Thursday night, which, quite frankly, is an experience we’re not looking to repeat. So it’s a good job we’ve got you lot listening out for us, else we’d be even more pointless and behind-the-times.

Here is the best of the stuff you’ve been bothering us with on the email / MySpace.

MIA - Bird Flu (Crash Berlin Remix)
Original sounds like: Being chased through a market in the Philippines while trying to get your hands on some illicit wildfowl for use in soups.
Remix sounds like: Playing Hip Hopscotch with the Children of Hell while pools of molten lava flow around you and the Devil taps his feet approvingly and twats about on a guitar. There’s clearly a tribal sacrifice involved after the three minute mark, too.

Larrikin Love - Downing Street Kindling (Statik Refix)
Original sounds like: Fey indie boy complaining about England being a bit rubbish, over a polite skiffle ‘n’ fiddle backing.
Remix sounds like: Fey indie boy being thrown down the stairs at a grime night, over a lost reggae punk record from 1976. Also sounds like the kind of music Babyshambles would hope to make were they not on so much smack.

Klaxons - Gravity’s Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)
Original sounds like: Dirty scuzz rock being fired into space from a million tiny canons, burning up in the atmosphere and falling back down to earth as glitter.
Remix sounds like: Basically everything that’s good about cathedral-sized slow-builders that start off with pots and pans being banged and end up filling your head with nothing but PURE WHITE NOISE. Sounds a bit like Candi Staton near the end as well.

Know any more? Tell us! x