Short and to the point blog post.
Get some cheesy but brilliant house. Strings of life was one of the biggest tunes of my youth, and here’s a wicked, though short, remix.
Steve Bear Sas – Strings Of Life (Jaimy Remix) [Mile End] by DJJaimy
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Steve ‘bear’ Sas – Strings of life (jaimey mix)
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos – The Deep End (Album version)
Monday, November 29th, 2010The Deep End is an atmospheric house track with a strong breakdown and a great riff; not to mention a mellow and warm breakdown. For me it’s worth hunting down the Album Version as it’s a slightly more dancefloor friendly than other mixes. Having said that the tune structure isn’t your traditional four to the floor so some half decent mixing skills are needed.
I have to admit to not really having noticed much from Nuno Dos Santos before, but on the strength of this track alone I’ll keep an ear to the ground.
TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos – The Deep End (Album version) by Nuno Dos Santos
Hybrid Disappear Here, remixes
Monday, November 22nd, 2010When Hybrid released Disappear Here a few months ago, it fell slightly below my expecatations. It’s a great album to listen to at home with wonderful, rich orchestrals, but it didn’t have dancefloor or live performance stand-out in my view. So it’s great to see this latest batch of remixes of the title track, disappear here.
Disappear Here – Trance remixes
Maor Levi – this is the best trance remix and probably my favourite all together tance treatment.
Andy Moor has done two mixes, the ecomix and a dub, and while good, neither bkows my socks off. The Dub has no vocal, and the ecomix cheeses it up a bit too much, but only a little bit. Although I’d love to see what it would do to a dancefloor; good things I think.
Disappear Here – Progressive mixes
Hybrid Soundsystem. Most Hybrid stuff, Disappear Here included is made for progressive house and breaks lovers, so it’s no surpruse this is where the tune works best. It’s full of classic hybrid twists and details. A slight air of menace in the riff, great production and an awesome breakdown.
Antix Mix. Weaker of the prog remixes for me, but still very listenable. I’m just not sure about the vocal snippets.
Disappear Here – Breaks
Losers remix. Losers remix really doesn’t cut it for me; far too down tempo and a bit slow for the first two mins before it gets going properly. When it does get going it’s messy and a bit rough around the edges.
Orchestral Armchair Version. This very downtempo version appeared on a few of the early album lauches and really demonstrates what Hybrid do best; epic orchestrals, with great crossover appeal.
Roberto Rodriguez – Thank You (part two) – solardisco recordings
Monday, October 11th, 2010I’ve hear this track a few times recently but by far the best remix is the one on Jody Wisternoff’s October Intensified (see next post). This really groovy house track wears it’s funk bassline well, and the cute ‘I want to thank you’ vocal sample reminds me a bit of the petshop boys.
The track is firmly in the house end of progressive house, but I feel it’s a really versatile track which would suit a variety of different DJing styles. The breakdown doesn’t really go anywhere, but the vocal carries it just fine, at nearly 9 minutes I don’t think I’d play the whole track but its simple structure gives it a load of mixing options.
Nalin & Kane – Beachball 2010 – Myon & Shane 54 remix
Friday, October 8th, 2010Beachball is one of my favourite tracks from back in the days when Paul Oakenfold used to bash it out to a packed courtyard each week at Cream in Liverpool.
Beachball is also one of the tracks I think is best suited to a series of modernising remixes, which is exactly what it’s had on the varous Beachball 2010 releases.
Rather than plumping for one of the excellent progressive house remixes of the track which I’m sure will be a hit in all the usual places, I’ve actually plumped for the trancier Myon and Shane 54 remix.
The remixers have done a sensible job of not overcomplicating the modernisation, and have kept in the distinctive bongo, bird sounds and riffs. And while first time around the instrumental version stole the show, the vocal in this instance is really well worked and doesn’t sound at all dated.
Another noteworthy mention has to go to the excellent Joris Voorn remix which first alerted me to the track.
Here’s a link to the original beachball. Just to prove even the best tracks can be completely ruined, here’s Tall Paul murdering beachball.