Redondo remixes Skee Lo classic "I Wish"

Redondo, who made the best remix of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" earlier this year, also have made this bootleg remix of a Skee Lo classic. Skee Lo is most famous for "I Wish" from 1995 and I remembered it as a sweet and fun piece of music. Redondo have made the track into something more deep, cool and less fun, in a really good way. Great work once again Redondo and it's free to get.

Skee Lo - I Wish (Redondon Remix)

Shadow Child - Collected/Friday

Awesome producer and Rinse FM host Shadow Child has a great album/compilation aptly called "Collected". One of my picks is the collaboration with Sinden.



The other pick (since it's Friday) is this:



"Friday was released as a single, including this awesomw remix by MK:



Both releases is out now on great label Food Music.

Tommy Vercetti - Good Feelings

Here's a huge party banger that I've been listening to a lot lately: Tommy Vercetti's "Good Feelings" (out now on great UK label Love Not Money's latest compilation New Love Vol. 4). The choice of moniker is kind of ironic since Tommy makes house with a distinct UK flavour and not the sort of retro 80's nu italo that the used to post all the time a couple of years ago and that the protagonist of GTA: Vice City perhaps more likely would listen to. Anyway, great work from a producer and label worth keeping an eye on.



The track contains a very small part of a very famous sample that Alex Metric used with great effect in this track. The part with the sample over those breakbeats is truly awesome, but I can't tell if the drop is ghetto bass or horrible EDM "electro haus". Someone must have made an awesome edit of it.



Obviously that sample forever became a meme in the collective musical mind after this huge hit by Junior Jack.



Few of these tracks beats the original by Cherrelle featuring Alexander O'Neal. I wonder what Cherrelle thinks about Alexander stealing all the thunder with his verse? You'll also note that the original vocals have a completely different rhythm, and if you, like me, heard Junior Jack before the original, you'll think Alexander's singing sounds off-beat. Anyway, awesome song that really shows the origins of soulful deephouse.

CHVRCHES + Lxury

This weeks we could read in the news that the Swedish school system is doing pretty badly with dwindling results. I don't know how the British school system is doing but judging by the spelling of some pretty important acts, maybe we're not alone in the shitter.

Young lad Lxury had a great EP debut with J.A.W.S. which was co-produced by Disclosure. With his remix of favourites CHVRCHES he shows us that he gets by just fine on his own. You can pick up the Lies EP on iTunes (provided you're in Britain and isn't too picky about sound quality). The rest of us will have to wait till it's available elsewhere.

Miss Kittin + Château Marmont

Welcome back to the world's best (laziest) blog! As a wise man once said: if you happen to listen to a song you like, just splash it up on the blog - you don't have to write a thesis about it. So, in no particular order I thought I'd do just that: post some new and not so new songs that I happen to like at the moment.

First up is Château Marmont's electropop take on Miss Kittin's almost a month old Maneki Neko. Château Marmont must be one of the most underrated French electro acts. They ride on that French electro wave, but always with their own take on things, and they're always delivering.

[Free download] Pat Lok - Body II Me

Pat Lok is back with this track available for free download if you just 'like' his Facebook page. But of course you do that already. Pat describes it as a house jam with all them sampley chords the kids like. Which is obviously true.