I love me a good remix and this one popped up on shuffle recently. Massive Attack don’t remix many other artists at all and they do a grand job here; the song is pretty much left as it is, but the tune just swings that wee bit more. It’s all sensitively and thoughtfully done.
Anyone else got a favorite remix to recommend? I’m going to stick a less sensitively done one below as well…
… and here is Erol Alkan doing Franz Ferdinand’s Do You Want To. Basically taking “the good bit” and looping it over and over again and making it sound BLOODY MASSIVE!
you got me there
There’s some good acts on Erol’s Phantasy label. Including my boy.
Spent a beery afternoon with him at Glastonbury a couple of years ago. Lovely bloke.
I think this is my favourite remix ever – it takes a lumbering mediocre track and turns it into a sassy, funky monster:
Prince – Gett Off (Housestyle) http://videos.sapo.pt/b7zztjE1T2UHjaKhc8B6
Always this one:
Good call, but I’d go for the Blank and Jones So80s reconstruction from a few years ago……
Ooooooo, that’s rather good. From the full-on of Searle, to the almost full-off. Tranccendental!!
(P.S. yes, a spelling mistake that I now have appropriated as my own new neologism.)
Bjork v Underworld
https://youtu.be/tqe6oJTV5fQ
I think one of the most distinctive, tasteful and successful remixes ever was the one that turned The Cure’s Close To Me into a groovy funk monster. Remember that?
Is it this? Not really “groovy funk monster” as “shuffly madchester type thing”
Although has anyone else heard this funked up monster remix of Kelly Watch The Stars by Air?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnXCX1Qx2Y
Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
The original version on the album When I Was Born for the 7th Time is about 10% slower.
The Norman Cook Remix sounds both fuller and more “alive” (I think I know what I mean there), but it is the album version I return to (this also means that in 20 minutes or so I’m once again enamoured by their version of “Norwegian Wood”)
I love the original and hated this. Norman Cook might have played bass in the Housemartins but his gimmicky kitchen-sink remixes, in particular, have always got on my tits.
well, call me Captain Obvious, but this needs to be here
More Weatherall magic. You’ll never want to listen to the original again
third time’s the charm
I love this to bits…
Frankie Knuckles improving the Pet Shop Boys
More from Andrew Weatherall, this time with the assistance of Paul Oakenfield.
Turning a perfectly acceptable lump of Madchester Indie into a “club banger”
Zombie Zombie remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CNWQa52Bfc
ennio via apollo
I think this counts…..
more moby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH58xearYzw
Japanese psych poppers get remixed by cosmic Scando disco luminary. Fun ensues.
This is rather good.
(Sidsel Endresen & Bugge Wesseltoft – Out Here, In There (Milos Ilic remix))
I liked that a lot. It made me think of Simone White, who also has a rather special voice and works with more traditional jazzy torch songs and electronica. Her sensual singing works well with both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yca3FKZ5H_Y
One that sort of works, once you get past your authenticity-puritan instincts.
(Nina Simone – Sinnerman (Felix da Housecat remix))
Let’s go back to the 70s. You sit your beautiful body down there m’darlin’ while I freshen up your Cinzano and put this Tom Moulton remix on. Wait, let me put out my woodbine. Ah, that’s better. My, it’s hot in here, isn’t it?
UNKLE’s remix of Stina Nordenstam’s version of People Are Strange:
Return To Brixton is an interesting (but not particularly good) Clash remix.
Wu Tang Vs Jimi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTBeEM2tFmM&list=PLr01j5pBuS0qO6j7uUOGZI2n67s3mS1vy
Remix of a mashup?
(Beautiful People – If ’60s Were ’90s (P.M. Dawn 12″ remix)
Gong remixed?
(A Sprinkling Of Clouds – Youth remix)
how about Youth remixing himself?
The thing about that Nusrat remix is that the original was pretty much a remix of traditional Sufi by Michael Brooks. A bit too far from the source for mine but glad you liked it.
Fascunating comment, Junior. I don’t like that version any the less but it is interesting to understand that they were working witha Brooks version rather than a Nusrat original,
The Todd Terry remix of “Missing” by EBTG saved their career – and finances…they’d just been dropped by the label and it was a global hit a few months later so I guess they got the royalties direct. Mind you, I like the original too – Tracey Thorn could sing the phone book and I’d like it. Ben Watt said in an interview that he cleaned it up a bit for the greatest hits and discovered it had evidently been thrown together in about half an our – the beats were really carelessly cut etc – mind you, you can’t argue with success.
I have to share this….a Later appearance with Danny Thompson on bass, half remix half original. Stuning.
https://youtu.be/7wNVv8C7VK8
Yup they were on their uppers for a while. They had to fall back on being Lee & Herring to make ends meet
I’m a fan of the long, epic remix: The FSOL ‘Conceptual Mix’ of ‘Praise’ by Inner City, ‘Weatherall’s Weekender’, every One Dove remix, FSOL’s mix of Oasis’s ‘Falling Down’, Weatherall remixes of James and New Order’s ‘Spooky’, every remix Secret Knowledge ever did. Epics all!
Daddy of them all, though, nudging half-an-hour of deep, immersive tech-house goodness, is this:
Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali feature two of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s nephews, remixed on the album The People’s Colony No. 1 by Transglobal Underground off-shoot Temple Of Sound. The track The Jewelled Heart is one of the best things I’ve ever heard. Sadly, the YT link is blocked.
But it is on Spotify
and sounds dubby and very promising.
Thanks, KFD. That features Jah Wobble on bass, as if you couldn’t tell.
I hadn’t noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out.
You cannot remix Prog? Oh yes you can!
Love a remix – realised the other day, I’m listening to more remixes than original tracks at the moment.
Thanks for all the above suggestions, which I’m going to add to my Spotify remix playlist – looking forward to giving them all a listen!
Here’s one of my current favourites –
Any chance you could share that Spotify list with us, please @Native?
That would save me the effort of trying to find all the gems listed here and making my own playlist.
Sorry! I am a very lazy creature.
I have added the mixes here that I can find in front of my normal remix playlist. @Kaisfatdad
Thanks a lot @Native! That’s my Easter listening sorted.
Here are a few of my favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzicqExJW3A
All better than the originals in my view.
Oh, and this one!