Normally I put the artist and title of all the songs I'm going to discuss in the titles of my posts, but in this case they're almost all remixes, so it would take about 150 characters to get them all in there. It got me to thinking, what if authors remixed other authors' books? For instance, in the Stephen King remix of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson would get hit by an eighteen-wheeler, like the baby in Pet Cemetery, instead of by Gatsby's yellow car. A deranged George Wilson would then bury Myrtle in the pet cemetery, and she would come back all zombied out and slice Gatsby's Achille's heel like that little tweaker in the movie does to Herman Munster. Meanwhile, Daisy Buchanan, Pammy, and the help somehow escape after finding a humongous stack of papers that all read, "All polo and no football makes Tom a dull boy."
Or how about the William Shakespeare remix of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye? When Holden says he starts "giving the three witches at the next table the eye again," he doesn't realize that they're actually the three witches from Macbeth. So just to screw with him, they prophesize that his destiny is to be the king of the lagoon in Central Park. He stumbles down to the lagoon in a drunken stupor, and starts brutally murdering ducks because he's paranoid that they're after his crown. Phoebe, wracked with guilt, goes crazy and offs herself after writing PHOEBE WEATHERFIELD CAULFIELD: GOOD DETECTIVE, BAD SISTER 763 times in her little notebook.
Some combinations might work better than others, I suppose. On to the music. The first record is the Flux Pavillion remix of DJ Fresh's "Gold Dust." This song's got a little funk to it, which is nice. The noise during the main drop is a bit intense, but that's not the part I really look forward to. The part at 1:45 is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. From the initial bass drop, with the drawn out whuuuuuuuuuuuur in the background, to the attitude-drenched vocals that come back in. So good. And even though this is the video for the original version of this record, it's pretty awesome. Makes me miss New York even more than I usually do.
The next youtube is the only non-remix. It's a record by Pendulum called "Set Me On Fire." The first "blow up" sounds like some crazy Transformers firefight, but my favorite part is when the vocals come in at 1:36.
The next record is the Baron remix of Stanton Warriors' "Still Here." This is more drum and bass than the other three other songs I'm posting. The beat that first kicks in at 1:05 is massive, and the vocals are understated and work well with the overall production.
Ok, this one is really a mouthful. (Deep breath) Finally we have the Dodge & Fuski remix of FunkyStepz featuring Lily McKenzie's "For U." Really? I've written short stories that weren't that long. Anyway, this is the cleanest, most mainstream-sounding record of the four. Some hardcore dubsteppers in the comments section are saying this record is a sellout, but that section at :54, when it sounds like she's kicking up little bass-pebbles in the background, is enough for me to really dig this record.
NOTE: If you want to hear a great mix that has three of these records on it, download Sir Kutz's mix here.
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