Remix Friday

This is a complicated one … I think this is the right breakdown. For purposes of Remix Friday, compare to (ii) and (iv)

(i) The original: Candi Staton – You Got The Love

(ii) THE remix, what many consider the original version: The Source ft. Candi Staton

[A mashup of You Got The Love and Your Love (Frankie Knuckles/Jamie Principle)—this version of Your Love is already a re-edit of the original Jamie Principle tune which, I hear, is only found on bootleg tapes.]

(iii) The cover: Florence + The Machine

(iv) The remix/cover of the cover: The XX

Remix Friday

“Punk became subservient to the music industry. It offered rebellion and outsider culture but didn’t deliver it, whereas rave and dance culture didn’t even promise it but delivered it.” — Karl Hyde

• Foxes – Holding On To Heaven
• Kove remix

Remix Friday

• Tori Amos – Professional Widow
• Armand Van Helden’s Star Trunk Funkin Mix

Armand pulling a dance tune out of thin air.

• Bonus Sample: John Gibbs & the U.S. Steel Orchestra — Trinidad

Remix Friday

• La Roux – In For The Kill
• Skream Let’s Get Ravey Remix

“A proper remix, the kind that nudges the original song into thrilling new territory. Young Croydon dubstep producer Skream removes everything from the perky original bar the vocal, which, in its ominous, bass-heavy new setting, now seems replete with yearning. The sudden outbreak of old school drum’n’bass near the end is terrific too.” — Gareth Grundy

Remix Friday

• Enter Shikari – Juggernauts
• Nero Remix

Despite Tony Wilson being instrumental in helping Electronic music take over England, then the world, I’m not sure he fully understood it. No disrespect but he always looked at things through a Rock ‘n’ Roll lens, so I’m going to take this quote with a grain of salt. Still, he’s been right about so many things that it at least makes me want to take a second look at the band.
“I have not seen anything as exciting since the Sex Pistols. They are that good.”