Re-edits: FRIED TOFU - Vol. 2

Thursday, July 14, 2011

FRIED TOFU - Vol. 2

In an overcompressed reality, the german label Fried Tofu stand their ground and delivers soulful disco-edits true to the originals.
Their second release includes edits of Fat Back Band, Pam Todd & Love Exchange and some other Greg Carmichael-ish disco stomper.

The edits are great in a K.I.S.S.-kinda way and stay within the strict rules of this here blog! A must-have for those sexy-late-night-DJ-sets.
Expect no digital distribution: like food and sex, Fried Tofu like their music physical and on vinyl (the edits are on vinyl - not the food and the sex...)
Visit the Fried Tofu-website to find your favorite vinyldealer.

FT02 Gettin Together [snippet] by Fried Tofu

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About this blog

This blog is dedicated to music re-edits.
No remixes. Just re-edits.
Like Eddie Murphy, I got some rules when I throw down:

Re-edits can only contain elements from the original recording.
No new melody or elements must be added, e.g. extra instruments or vocals. That would make it a remix.
Then again: a little kick and a snare to mark things up never hurt nobody.
It's OK to fade, reverse, cut, loop and add delay/reverb/phase fx etc. to the mix.
It's OK to included any version available of the recording: extended, dub, a capella, instrumental, perc-apella, live etc. as long as it is the same artist.
The re-edit must work better than the original. Else it's pointless, Tess!

Feel free to submit your re-edit to the Soundcloud group at the top. If I like, I'll post it here.

Note: Any mp3s are for listening purpose only. If you DL, please delete afterwards and go buy the record.

Re-edits history

Re-edits (or later extended versions) are altered versions of an existing song with repeated and reordered arrangement.

The re-edit was born because pre-disco DJs like Francis Grasso and Walter Gibbons and music aficionado Tom Moulton saw the advantages of longer versions; dancing people are responding to specific instrumental parts of the song (often a drumbreak or breakdown) and they want to stay in the groove for longer than just the usual 3:20 the single could provide.

At first they mixed two identical records on the spot, but later they would use reel-to-reel and cassettes. Eventually, when the record companies saw the sales potential, the DJs took it from the booth to the studio. Since, the art of re-editing has been refined by people like Danny Krivit, Tom Moulton, Walter Gibbons, Yam Who?, Todd Terje Dimitri from Paris and Pilooski.

(Wiki about re-edits)

(Brewster & Frank Broughton: "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - The history of the disc jockey", Headline 1999)