Burning Like A Silver Flame

Beenie Man w/ Ms. Thing “Dude (Sticky Refix)” – “You heard what she preferred…she wants a real man, she don’t want a nerd” – Well, that counts me out. I had been meaning to post the original version of this, but thankfully I found this Sticky mix (remember him from that Lady Stush track from a couple weeks ago?), which is a vast improvement all around. Whereas the original was a bit too flat and lacking in dynamics, Sticky makes the song MOVE, and it all sounds so much more vibrant and fun.

Erlend Øye – “Venus/Intergalactic Autobahn” (excerpt from DJ-Kicks mix cd) – Erlend Øye’s new mix cd is the latest in K7’s DJ-Kicks series. Øye’s mix features some well chosen tracks by The Rapture, Avenue D, Phoenix, Cornelius, and Royksopp, but it’s most notable for how he sings throughout much of the mix. In some cases, he sings a bit of a song before dropping in the original vocals (as he does with The Rapture’s “I Need Your Love”), but more often than not, Øye sings cover versions of songs over unrelated music and beats, mash-up style. In this excerpt, he does a bit of Shocking Blue’s “Venus” over Uusi Fantasia’s “Lattialla Taas,” which then segues into Øye singing his own “Intergalactic Autobahn” over top of Justus Köhncke’s “2 After 909.”

Elsewhere: I recommend checking out the DJ Screw mixes over on Tyrone Shoelace’s blog while he still has them up. It’s basically manipulated, super-slooooow mixes of hip hop songs designed to be a soundtrack for robodosing, and it’s got this bizarre, soothing, return-to-the-womb charm that I can’t quite explain. I can’t imagine what this must be like while high – I feel like my head’s swimming just listening to this stuff sober.