Music stash
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The "Barbie Girl" and "Kung Fu Fighting" singles in their entirety. XD Not much to say about these - no hidden b-side gems or remixes that make you view the song in a completely new light - but fun in an "add more beat, let's dancing" sort of way. (In both cases the radio edit is 3-minutes-plus and the extended version 5-minutes-plus, if you have the songs already and are wondering which version to grab.)
Recced tracks of the post:
Cesaria Evora - Angola (Carl Craig's Mix) (11.7MB)
Cesaria Evora - Sangue de Beirona (Main Pass by Francois K.) (11.7MB)
From Cesaria Evora's Club Sodade, a collection of remixes by well-known electronica/dance acts (purchased at the same time as Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi. 2, a nice album cover connection at that XD). Download these; better yet, get the CD. I actually bought it because I read the back and thought, "Suppose this sounds like 'Que Belle Epoque 2006'?" And some of it does, or rather falls within a lovely estival triangle between QBE'06, Bebel Gilberto Remixed and salsa house wit piano/bongos. All of it is ace; as with Bebel or the Verve remix project the worst a remixer can do with this source material is render himself extraneous (it would take active sabotage to eff up a song like "Nutridinha"), but the reworkings here are of a quality above and beyond the call of duty.
From the singles grab bag:
Chicane - Halcyon (Original Mix): not the same track as the Orbital one, but in a related vein (I did mention the naming conventions are... conventional XD). Beautiful melodic trance from 2000, right before the pendulum swung back toward electro. Take it outside with you if you can, to a place with green grass and running water and sunsets. I should've bought more; mp3 blogs are unlikely to help with this sort of thing. (12.4MB)
William Ørbit - Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante Défunte (Ferry Corsten Mix): the original version of the song (single and album) is a mellow, stately-paced number - basically Ravel played on Ray of Light synths over a slow breakbeat - suitable for sitting in the park and watching the fountains play, or more precisely for scoring an anime cutscene where the characters spend an idyllic afternoon in the park in between piloting their gundams for great justice (it gives them something to remember when they angst).
The Ferry Corsten remix is more like the actual gundam piloting bit. ...Really, this sort of trancey boshbosh reminds me of nothing so much as Gundam Seed, which is probably a reflection of the OP/EDs themselves. (9.2MB)
Super Discount - Someone Like You (Fast Track Vocal Mix) (8.7MB)
Super Discount - Someone Like You (Fast Track Vocal Munk Remix) (12.1MB)
I can't even remember if I've posted this. Logically I should've upped the original instrumental version (Etienne de Crécy's "Fast Track") after I heard it played at New Year's, but this is the one-with-a-girl-singing and is one of the cases where I feel the vocal improves the track - not least because it's a blues vocal and not a house diva vocal. Picture the music as Jack and Meg White and not mega MEGA earworm-bassline anthemic electrohouse and you'll see what I mean.
Bandwidth-sucking minimal bobbins:
Isolée - Cité Grande Terre (5.5MB)
Isolée - Cité Grande Terre (Luciano's Luck of Lucien Edit) (18.7MB)
The two CDs I bought at MUTEK were Isolée's Western Store and that minimal scene collective Tsunami Relief album. Later realised the Isolée was dangerous because it meant I could upload the original tracks and the remixes simultaneously, and I can never resist doing that. XD
Cis sez Luciano is a breath of cool air in summer, where Lawrence is autumnal-if-not-wintry and Mayer is like one of those surprisingly warm spring nights. Is applicable to this track, I think - there's something refreshingly wide-open about it, like those pavilions in the Japanese Garden where you sit on mats on raised platforms and two out of four walls are nonexistent.
The "Barbie Girl" and "Kung Fu Fighting" singles in their entirety. XD Not much to say about these - no hidden b-side gems or remixes that make you view the song in a completely new light - but fun in an "add more beat, let's dancing" sort of way. (In both cases the radio edit is 3-minutes-plus and the extended version 5-minutes-plus, if you have the songs already and are wondering which version to grab.)
Recced tracks of the post:
Cesaria Evora - Angola (Carl Craig's Mix) (11.7MB)
Cesaria Evora - Sangue de Beirona (Main Pass by Francois K.) (11.7MB)
From Cesaria Evora's Club Sodade, a collection of remixes by well-known electronica/dance acts (purchased at the same time as Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi. 2, a nice album cover connection at that XD). Download these; better yet, get the CD. I actually bought it because I read the back and thought, "Suppose this sounds like 'Que Belle Epoque 2006'?" And some of it does, or rather falls within a lovely estival triangle between QBE'06, Bebel Gilberto Remixed and salsa house wit piano/bongos. All of it is ace; as with Bebel or the Verve remix project the worst a remixer can do with this source material is render himself extraneous (it would take active sabotage to eff up a song like "Nutridinha"), but the reworkings here are of a quality above and beyond the call of duty.
From the singles grab bag:
Chicane - Halcyon (Original Mix): not the same track as the Orbital one, but in a related vein (I did mention the naming conventions are... conventional XD). Beautiful melodic trance from 2000, right before the pendulum swung back toward electro. Take it outside with you if you can, to a place with green grass and running water and sunsets. I should've bought more; mp3 blogs are unlikely to help with this sort of thing. (12.4MB)
William Ørbit - Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante Défunte (Ferry Corsten Mix): the original version of the song (single and album) is a mellow, stately-paced number - basically Ravel played on Ray of Light synths over a slow breakbeat - suitable for sitting in the park and watching the fountains play, or more precisely for scoring an anime cutscene where the characters spend an idyllic afternoon in the park in between piloting their gundams for great justice (it gives them something to remember when they angst).
The Ferry Corsten remix is more like the actual gundam piloting bit. ...Really, this sort of trancey boshbosh reminds me of nothing so much as Gundam Seed, which is probably a reflection of the OP/EDs themselves. (9.2MB)
Super Discount - Someone Like You (Fast Track Vocal Mix) (8.7MB)
Super Discount - Someone Like You (Fast Track Vocal Munk Remix) (12.1MB)
I can't even remember if I've posted this. Logically I should've upped the original instrumental version (Etienne de Crécy's "Fast Track") after I heard it played at New Year's, but this is the one-with-a-girl-singing and is one of the cases where I feel the vocal improves the track - not least because it's a blues vocal and not a house diva vocal. Picture the music as Jack and Meg White and not mega MEGA earworm-bassline anthemic electrohouse and you'll see what I mean.
Bandwidth-sucking minimal bobbins:
Isolée - Cité Grande Terre (5.5MB)
Isolée - Cité Grande Terre (Luciano's Luck of Lucien Edit) (18.7MB)
The two CDs I bought at MUTEK were Isolée's Western Store and that minimal scene collective Tsunami Relief album. Later realised the Isolée was dangerous because it meant I could upload the original tracks and the remixes simultaneously, and I can never resist doing that. XD
Cis sez Luciano is a breath of cool air in summer, where Lawrence is autumnal-if-not-wintry and Mayer is like one of those surprisingly warm spring nights. Is applicable to this track, I think - there's something refreshingly wide-open about it, like those pavilions in the Japanese Garden where you sit on mats on raised platforms and two out of four walls are nonexistent.
