the godlike genius of Todd Edwards

i take particular enjoyment from his remix game of late - i guess with any other producer it would be kinda lame the way he blankly steamrollers the source material but with him it's like this sweetly absentminded (but not) father brown thing almost, very amusing

like how he turns this abject bollocks into this for instance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8UCmQ45h4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5q1u0ccezY

and as you can see that one takes on a religious vibe purely just out of your awareness of todd being todd

his remix of wretch 32's 'forgiveness' is another good one, solves the thorny question of wretch by ejecting him from his own track entirely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9G_nrUySJ0

god had forgotten how truly dire modestep are since my r1 days. their big breakout single i think is the worst pop track of all time.

http://www.junodownload.com/products/the-most-beautiful/1973722-02/

http://theodysseyproject.tumblr.com/post/24313258461/keith-supabeatz-feat-an-na-the-most-beautiful

:O

absolutely extraordinary even for todd

would love to have seen the face on these schmucks when they received their totally average-ass tune back done up like that

def an inauspicious caterpillar.

can't stop playing this, pure ambrosia.

http://digg.com/news/entertainment/little_boots_headphones_todd_edwards_vocal_remix_1

damn

revisited prima edizione in the last couple of days. shit's real

"look out" has a ridiculous flow!

not even sure if i'll enjoy the instrumental here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3T2XblxvPg

I kind of feel like the track works and the vocal works but they don't work together?

this 'the most beautiful thing' remix is incredible.

how do we feel about... this...

http://soundcloud.com/todd-edwards/todd-edwards-no-place-like-london-radio-edit

WTF

that's, erm, less incredible.

or perhaps in another sense.

haha, I cracked up so hard at the beginning of that

There's no place like...Liverpool?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv5_owW1uN4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLo8XyDOlc&feature=player_embedded

We talked about this one yet?

meh

Well, compared to the original its a step up. A major one.

I'm still having a hard time believing that this Crosstown Rebels, Visionquest, Hot Creations sound that Todd Burns seems so infatuated with is actually a major thing.

Ooh so slow druggy deep house with OK drums, so amazing.

Ooh so (insert anything here) so amazing.

Dunno, just seems like a very bland and conservative kind of music to be getting all hot and bothered about.

I like Benoit and Sergio as much as the next guy but am so far a little underwhelmed by this "trend".

with you, brah, except I absolutely hate that shit

Even Nick Hannam's "Love You Girl"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f07K3owWHA

it's tough, stuff gets popular. It's not always the best stuff, it's not always the stuff you like. And it sucks that you have to hear this fake shit night after night after night

I don't think you can front on Infinity Ink's "Games":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmQKOXbN1_Q

Or indeed "House of Infinity".

which is like mid 90s Carl Craig (somewhere between the Jonny L and Aquarhythms remixes) meets garage.

or indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGrgRZ27ZMU

leectric feel is even better

(lee foss)

these actually have a passing resemblance (in struxture) to some todd stuff

kinda lowest common denominator but it still gets MASSIVE SUPPORT

I still maintain that Rev thinks that all of these tunes are the same as Art Department's "Without You" and Benoit & Sergio's "Walk & Talk" without actually hearing them.

seriously tho the build from the three minute mark of "House of Infinity" is just (((((((((( d[-_-]b ))))))))))

I still maintain that Rev thinks that all of these tunes are the same as Art Department's "Without You" and Benoit & Sergio's "Walk & Talk" without actually hearing them.

― Tim F, Friday, September 7, 2012 9:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

True, well you know BAD FIRST IMPRESSIONS and all of that, but yes Art Depo and B&S most certainly have biased me against whoever else people want to associate with them. These tracks are all fine (or at least that last one was until MGMT came in) but they don't get me excited. I loved the Robin Thicke one when I heard it in a DJ Q mix, so maybe playing this stuff with the pitch way up and surrounded by garridge is the key.

I was saying on twitter tho that even tho I got into dance music through house, I'm kind of super-bummed by almost anything 4x4 at the moment. Seems to kind of have become the provenance of dance music's stodgiest elements (or most garish, but I'm less frustrated with that kru).

Now to catch up on that other thread.

I do appreciate this particular piece of sage wisdom I received on twitter tho:

"House is like your mother. She raised you and you'll always love her, but sometimes you gotta move out of the house."

Yeah, and start making techno.

I think what rubs me the wrong way the most about Infinity Ink is the way the vocals have this faint whiff of MGMT/ pseudo Beegees kinda thing.

It doesn't much matter that there's a bumpy little garage loop under the rest of the beat, still yeucch.

Maybe its more Cut Copy than MGMT, I've spent too much time playing this crap for college students.

Are you talking about "Infinity" Josiah or "House of Infinity"?

House of Infinity, that'd be the one with the garage loop.

I did like Games better than the other two.

Out of everything I've heard on Crosstown Rebels I liked the Francesca Lombardo release the most. Old School Anna is pretty good.

Yeah sorry I assumed so I just wasn't sure cos you were talking about "Infinity" above and "House of Infinity" sounds nothing like MGMT or The Bee Gees to me.