I’ve been on the road so much the past week and change it’s hard to come up with good entries for songs (let alone being able to post all the songs in advance.)
I didn’t like Fischerspooner’s “Emerge” much when it first came out so I didn’t expect a remix to change my mind that much. [...]
Most remixes of a song add layers of sound to the originals. A stripped down number might get a horn section, added vocals and lots of new percussion sounds to make an extended version more suitable to the dance floor or headphones. (Or if you’re the Soup Dragons in their later period you just made [...]
Remix EP’s are a dangerous game. Six remixes of a track already stretched out and threatening to collapse under its own weight is a true challenge of remixing skill. Thankfully, the folks who were roped into the task for the EP of IQU’s “Teenage Dream” were up to the task. Most found a way to [...]
When The Wolfgang Press dropped their album Queer in 1991 it surprised the hell out of me (and a lot of other people.) The thunderous gothic vocals and dense sounds were replaced by slinky dance tunes and an ear for the charts. Most of the 4AD groupies who had praised their every note were now [...]
I originally heard of the Sneaker Pimps from a friend who was a massive vintage sneaker junkie. He had figured with a name like that they would have been an old-school hip-hop outfit from Queens. He was not pleased to discover they were a trip-hop band from the UK (“With a female vocalist no less!” [...]
I won’t delve too deep into the history behind “Ghosts of Cable Street” - wikipedia and the like do a far better job. I’m intrigued at how much better the live version of this song is and why it had to be relegated to a B-side of a questionable single. “Great Expectations” was a decent [...]
Mashups are always a crap shoot for me for every twenty I hear nineteen are forgettable, regrettable or both. (I never, ever, ever need to hear another mashup using Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” - seriously, stop it people!) However, over the years that twentieth one has been a lot of fun and found a [...]