Why Can't There Be Love (Adidas Street Superstars Remix) Wednesday 14 April 2010

Inspired to knock this one together by this ad, and the awesomeness of the original track (Dee Edwards' "Why Can't There Be Love").



The ad features N-Dubz, Noel Gallagher, Snoop Dogg, Ian Brown, Ciara, Mr Hudson and others - all of whom have verses here : )

Here's the original



And the remix!

Why Can't There Be Love (Adidas Street Superstars Remix) by 2Tracks

No download on this one I'm afraid...

Happy Milkshake Wednesday 17 February 2010

Kelis's "Milkshake" vocal over Max Sedgley's "Happy" (all of it). This was done at Neil (who I used to DJ with)'s suggestion and hopefully he's not too upset by the re-arrangement. He used to play it live off of vinyl, but I've rejigged it a bit...


This _could_ be the last 2tracks track, as I've


a) Run out of ideas and can;t remember any more old ones.

b) Started doing original stuff again.


Point b was kind of the whole point in the first place so success I guess! I bought myself Ableton 8 Suite for Xmas, and you can hear the results at http://soundcloud.com/bitly...

Turn Tha Diamonds Out Saturday 24 October 2009

Kanye West's "Diamonds" vs Biz Markie's "Turn Tha Party Out". 2 posts in 2 days - WOO! OK, so the Tipsy one wasn't great on account of me being kinda tipsy when I did it but you get the general idea.
This one I did originally when we were doing the (short-lived) Hi Karate Podcasts (there were 2!). I think "Diamonds" was out at the time and I guess it just came to me. the Biz track is another one of Neil's really. You _could_ do it live off vinyl but need to be quick or miss the start, don't think I ever played this out...

Tipsy Treason

HIYA!

This is J-Kwon's "Tipsy" vocal over Raw Deal's "High Treason". think it's fair to say i got a BIT bored of this whole blog thing so it's been a minute, BUT it's had the desired effect IN THAT I've started a whole bunch of original (well maybe "original") tracks.

The music on this one - Neil used to play it all the time, and I'd ask him what it was, then I'd forget, then he'd play it about a month later, then I'd ask him, and then I'd forget and so on and so forth. I only secured a copy when we were doing an interweb radio thing so i could ORDER A COPY RIGHT WHILE HE WAS TELLING ME WHAT IT WAS. revolutionary.

Now the J-Kwon thing - I don't know who he is. Who the fuck is J-Kwon??? His single was clearly rubbish but there was something about the drinking-advocacy lyrics that appealed and at some point in my head I put it together with the raw deal thing and this is the result.

God the production on the original J Kwon thing is So Bad. He's probably rockin a 40 right NOW. Gittin "tipsy"...

you can sort of do this live off vinyl if you're quick enough...

Finest Things That Dreams Are Made Of Thursday 17 September 2009

Human League's "Things That Dreams Are Made Of" (off of the instrumental "League Unlimited Orchestra" album) with the vocal from "The Finest" by SOS Band.

I can't really claim this one as it wasn't my idea. Let me explain....

Back when bootlegs were All The Rage, a producer called Richard X became famous for doing them and applied the idea to a bunch of pop stuff, including "Finest Dreams" by Kelis.



Now, it doesn't take a genius to work out where the bits come from, but I'd never heard the two original tracks together before and besides it was pretty entertaining at the time since the Kelis thing was pretty big, so I used to play this out. You can just about do it on a pair of turntables, though I'd run the vocal at +8 and the track at -5 :)

I'm not sure if the Richard X thing actually uses the whole Human League track or is replayed - there's certainly other stuff been added but the changes and the way the vocal fits over the top is pretty much like playing the two oiriginals (though you do have to stop the vocal for a bit in the middle).

The SOS band thing doesn't have an acapella as such, it's a sparse bit at the end of the dub mix on the 12". It does have some synths and percussion but I mostly ducked them out here. I always tried to get another track on before the stuff about Norman Wisdom comes in at the end but never quite managed it so I've left it in here too!

Learn to be Crazy in Love Friday 4 September 2009

Beyonce's "Crazy in Love" vocal over Cappo's "Learn to be Strong"... This was really a way to extend the life of "Crazy in Love", which I thought was massive as soon as I heard it. It was another Rich Harrison production but you knew that sooner or later it was going to be all over everywhere and when that finally happened I guess this was a way of still playing it out. Kind of.

The Cappo track has vocals in the samples so, though it was easy to play out off of vinyl, you had to duck those and there's actually not that much of "Crazy in Love" in it.

A maybe under-rated UK hip hop track on tru-thoughts too...

Deep Pin Up Girls Saturday 29 August 2009

This is (as I know it) the vocal from Awesome 3's "Pin Up Girls" chopped up over Pepe Bradock's "Deep Burnt". Lots of confusion here...

I first heard Deep Burnt on the office jukebox, like some other tracks here, and it didn't take me long to realise that the hook, as well as sounding a bit like "Little Sun Flower", also phrased like "Take Me Away". Need some explanation here...
APPARENTLY the Pepe Bradock track is sampled out of Freddie Hubbard's "Little Sunflower" but I think this is mainly based on there being a moodyman edit of that track that has that hook in it. I've not been able to find the track that has that bit in it yet... anyone???
So, to this... I swear this is true that i heard the music and liked it, then the "take me away" association came to me because it's kind of a house music cliche. THEN I bought the aweomse 3 12 with an acapella in a charity shop. and then it just took me ages to get together. There seems to be versions of this vocal and I don't know which is the original one tbh...
Also, this all started before the prodigy's use of the vocal in "Warriors Dance", which is pretty lazy. I also recently heard another tune using it.
Obviously i think mine is better. it all hinges on the fact that the musical hook is phrased the same as "take me away" but hopefully it makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up like a good house vocal should...