Daft Punk – Da Funk (Armand Van Helden's Ten Minutes Of Funk Mix)
More house goodness! I cannot get enough of this today. Throwing a party on March 25th with some special friends. More details to come…
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Phoenix – If I Ever Feel Better, I'll Go to the Disco (Said the Buffalo Bunch)
This house remix by the Buffalo Bunch encapsulates the original mix’s mood in that perfectly cut “I can’t try” sample, cut up and repeated. The addition of a thick, rolling bass line gets that lower half of your body moving in ways that the original never could!
A man next to me on the bus, with his tiny white earbuds, managed to distract me long enough from my book to ask him what he was listening to; I was almost convinced it was Electric Soft Parade but I was wrong. It was actually Radiohead, so in my mind, I think that’s close enough. I decided later to go back and listen to some of those early Travis and Coldplay records, and I’ve realized that I’m not sure what I was really so excited over britrock; it’s not very thrilling music, more dour and sullen really. I’ll just have to chalk it up to being young and excitable. That being said, I do enjoy it when it’s a rainy day out, or maybe when I’ve just been broken up with; at least, it’s always rainy in Seattle.
The “One More Chance” Remixes, featuring tracks by Tiesto, Alex Metric to name a few, they all seem to focus on the edgy, guitar side of the song- but how can you overlook Kele Okereke’s alarm bell vocals on the chorus, and that classy piano riff? Really, the most overlooked option is to keep the bass kick and piano bit and re-imagine this song as a fresh take on some classic house:
