Showing posts with label Rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock. Show all posts

Friday, September 13, 2013

Queen - Radio Ga Ga (Irregular Disco Workers Edit)

Definitely a Queen favorite of mine, both in music og lyrics. Also my very first encounter with the band when it hit the charts in 1984.
Apparently this song was the result of drummer Roger Taylor playing with his new tech toys; a Roland Jupiter 8 and a Linn drum machine.
Irregular Disco Workers has replaced the trademark arpeggiator bassline with a slapbass (much like Camille Jones "The Creeps"), but it works surprisingly well. A little filter on Freddie's sparse vocals and a little extra kicks, snaps and cowbells. We love cowbells!
Nice!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Titanic - Macumba (Tangoterje Edit)

Todd Terje Week - Thursday

Before A-ha, Röyksopp, Lindstrom and Todd Terje Norway wasn't exactly known for its music exports. Except maybe for the prog-funk-rock band Titanic. Formed in 1969, they released their debut in 1971 and the 1973-follow-up "Macumba" featured this gem.

This is a regular DJ-edit; i.e. it's looped and rearranged without effects. A classic piece of work!

It fits your rock-set,  slips easily into your funk-set and roughens things up in your disco-set.
If You haven't yet, go buy it! The A-side is Todd Terje's edit of the no-wave groover "Woman of the World" by Double.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Rolling Stones - Under My Dub (Todd Terje Edit) a.k.a "Under My Thumb"

For now just a white label, but must be a matter of time before Decca, Virgin or whoever own the rights makes this an official release.
Tood Terje, for it is him once again, has really stretched this one to its limits. Just a touch of extra drums. The rest is send through effects, loops and filters and with a steady pace it clocks in at 5:36 (the original from the "Aftermath" album is 3:20, which was long for 1966)
Fantastic!




Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Jefferson Starship - Miracles (Sunshine Jones Re-edit)

The first time I heard this melody, was on De La Souls "I am I Be" off their 1993 "Buhloone Mindstate" and it's been haunting me since. Actually, back then I already had the original "Miracles " by Jefferson Starship off their Red Octopus album, but it was not until this re-edit came out I went back and listened to the original from beginning to end. 
A beautiful original, but this re-edit does legitimate the re-edit genre. Here, the original is updated with respect.
Loop, dubs, delays and filtering - the works. The vocals are kept to a minimum just popping up a few times as forgotten memories of an echoing distant. Added snare and kick put it in a frame. Love it!

Go buy the Sunshine Jones edit at Treehousemuzique store 

Listen to the Sunshine Jones Re-edit: