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petroniaThe Knife - Pass This On
The Knife - Pass This On (Hugg and Pepp Remix)
The Knife - Pass This On (M.A.N.D.Y.'s Knifer Remix)
Long lead time on this band. I must've had Rex the Dog's remix of "Heartbeats" for six months before I could see what everyone found so amazing about it, and now that I've been playing their tracks quasi-obsessively for several days I still can't quite say why I like them. Quick-decay programmed drum, MIDI synth melodies, reallyreallyreally weird vocals... I can't parse what's happening within these songs, and music that confuses me tends to lose my interest. ^^; But there's something about the way the two-headed-alien-Bjork vocal lines weave around the blippy riffs that hooks me like - like hooks. Silver fishhooks with barbed ends that draw blood.
Okay, the imagery is weird. But the songs are weird! ...No?
The remixes are more straightforwardly danceable (the original is on a sort of erm tango beat) though no less complex. Hugg and Pepp preserve more of the original feel but M.A.N.D.Y. introduces an early-90s Nintendo riff that is killer. I've also got the "Silent Shout" single if anyone's interested, it's like this but more... gothtrance.
(P.S. For those of you keeping track at home, yes this is the hilarious Byakuya/Rukia/Renji song as performed in a glass-shattering nasal falsetto by a Swedish woman with a heavy accent. DAER RUKIA PLS TO HELP A HOMIE OUT. ...I mean, I didn't even bother to pay attention to the lyrics until pretty late in the game. What is even better is that the Knife are a brother and sister.)
I have more mp3s to post, but I'm out of time. XD
The Knife - Pass This On (Hugg and Pepp Remix)
The Knife - Pass This On (M.A.N.D.Y.'s Knifer Remix)
Long lead time on this band. I must've had Rex the Dog's remix of "Heartbeats" for six months before I could see what everyone found so amazing about it, and now that I've been playing their tracks quasi-obsessively for several days I still can't quite say why I like them. Quick-decay programmed drum, MIDI synth melodies, reallyreallyreally weird vocals... I can't parse what's happening within these songs, and music that confuses me tends to lose my interest. ^^; But there's something about the way the two-headed-alien-Bjork vocal lines weave around the blippy riffs that hooks me like - like hooks. Silver fishhooks with barbed ends that draw blood.
Okay, the imagery is weird. But the songs are weird! ...No?
The remixes are more straightforwardly danceable (the original is on a sort of erm tango beat) though no less complex. Hugg and Pepp preserve more of the original feel but M.A.N.D.Y. introduces an early-90s Nintendo riff that is killer. I've also got the "Silent Shout" single if anyone's interested, it's like this but more... gothtrance.
(P.S. For those of you keeping track at home, yes this is the hilarious Byakuya/Rukia/Renji song as performed in a glass-shattering nasal falsetto by a Swedish woman with a heavy accent. DAER RUKIA PLS TO HELP A HOMIE OUT. ...I mean, I didn't even bother to pay attention to the lyrics until pretty late in the game. What is even better is that the Knife are a brother and sister.)
I have more mp3s to post, but I'm out of time. XD
