mexicans with guns have sorta snuck their way into my heart with their simple remixes that focus on what works in a song and tweaking the rest. here i'll be reviving an old favorite (their my girls remix) and bringing forth unto you another favorite. you'll surely recognize both of these tracks from lazy pixel as well. i like to think you liked them, you did dance to them.
on a side note, this is really not cool at all, dj jazzy jeff was kicked off stage for playing hip hop in kansas city. guess where i won't be viewing reruns of the fresh prince any time soon....
honestly, i've been wanting to write much more than i've had the time to, but i've been biding my time on this one. so i guess i'll start off with just a couple musings on the stellar new record Merriweather Post Pavilion. Its just about perfect. And thats all i can say. so here we will go into the meat of the post. my girls remixes.
well, i take that back, enjoy the original video first!
okay, no more playing. first off, i'd like to just give a nod to my two personal faves. first is the mexicans with guns RMX. why this one? (for the record, i had originally spoke of this because i think this is the only remix that manages to keep the feel of the original while successfully changing the genre. its also the remix that lets the vocals take the lead in the middle range (perhaps take the lead is inappropriate, the vocals kind of haunt the song, staying the center, but not really at the expense of any other track), while overhauling the bassline and ratcheting up the tempo. its really fantastic, and i think is quietly the best of the remixes.
Next up here is a close second, the Gigamesh Proper House Remix. listen and be awed at how they change the song, and the results not be at all calamitous. they play with with chord structure, and it makes the songs both airy and happy, they also stop the song again after AC kinda does it, and it works out beautifully. adding in a pretty fantastic line that works wonders with the original.
Next up is the very same tune that seems to have set the AC world on fire, and if you decide to take the advice of the majority over my own, i wouldn't blame you one little bit. i do like how they brought out the hat sample and made up their own postal service-esque rhythm below it.
I think if i had to pick a moment from this entire blog to pick as my absolute favorite, it would be at 3:40 from this track. the passing of the torch from one song to another is sublime and you really begin to see why people draw so many parallels between the two.
if you have been under a rock recently, go outside, get a tan, then come back and get a load of this sweet track by c.i.t.y. that mixes music sounds better with you and we are your friends in a way that exceeds your expectations and if given a bit of time, will give you a pop tart, TOASTED. or FROZEN. the result of this combination is a song that you can get crunk on mojitos in a miami french cafe to. it also synthesizes two kinda old songs to make something undeniably modern, its like meeting old friends you used to play smash brothers with.
OMG y'all, the world is going buck(zachary)wylde over merriweather post pavillion. yeah, its prolly gonna be one of the better records of the year and all, but is that enough? nope, not nowadays. is this a good thing? generally not, but hey, sometimes you get a gem like this one, i won't go into detail except to say that its about as good as something so straightforward can be.
Finally, here a mash-up that exceeds expectations all over the world (i assume) (however it is a bit odd that things people go crazy for the world over never really make it to the more rural parts of the world, huh?) it is a mix of two of the better songs over the last few years, Zdarlight and Bucky Done Gun. it is also odd that this song combines two of the more ironically commercial acts over this time. man, MIA's anti-capitalism is sooooooo obvious. her clothes are super cheap....
