TODAY.
I had a bit of a binge on Balearic 80s fetishists Classixx. I'm sure I've already raved about their utterly spectacularly good takes on Phoenix's "Lisztomania" (sunkissed synth chords and leisurely beats) and Active Child's "When Your Love is Safe" (UTTER EIGHTIES POWER BALLAD CHEESE). But today I discovered not only more great remixes (Ladyhawke's "Magic" becomes even more magical in their hands) but that when left to their own devices, they can create some equally lovely pieces of blissed out electrofunk. Check out the slap-bass happy early-Madonna thwack of "I'll Get You", with a hypnotically catchy chorus refrain of "Do you like bass, do you, do you like bass?".
But check out the remixers getting remixed below! Julio Bashmore recruits irresistable 90s piano stabs reinvent Classixx's "Into the Valley" with effortlessly chilled yet funky results.
But there's more...
POPDAR ALERT.
It's not often a little voice can stop me in my tracks, but UK singer Shura, backed impressively and effectively by the shuffling Burial-esque beats and sparse atmospheres of her producer Hiatus, doesn't have to say much to give a haunting and arresting vocal. Carried along by a windswept guitar line, Shura whispers cryptically through a verse before unleashing her vocal chords ever so slightly to let her voice ride the breeze. Hiatus provides just enough Massive Attack trip hop punch to keep the song above water, whilst Shura's soft siren calls suggest an urge to swim. It's a wonderful partnership, and one that quite frankly threatens to usurp all her happily seated peers.
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