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...

We Come Strange Thursday, 20 August 2009

This is the vocal from Faithless's "We Come One" chopped up over Zomby's "Strange Fruit"... I can only apologise for the gap due to hols and broken software, but I'm back!

I first heard Zomby off of the Modeselektor mix I mentioned before. It was this track, but I soon found some other stuff and love the old school rave tribute "Where Were You In 92" - like 2 minute pop song versions of rave classics. sortof.

Anyway, "Strange Fruit" really got me but I wondered if it was because of the title at least partly. The first and only time I ever cried at a film was the scene in Mississippi Burning where they played this song and showed people who'd been hung. Weirdly I now can't find any evidence it was actually in the film, but it's kind of a heavy song in any case...



As ever, i don't really know why the Faithless song suggested itself, maybe because the little half vocal bits in the Zomby track sound a bit like parts of it. Like some of the others, I spent a while thinking there was no such acapella but eventually found it - maybe on acapellas4u.co.uk. Which is awesome.