that intro is fun exactly 1 time, then it's annoying. not as annoying as Carl Craig's intro but in the same category of annoying. it's completely fake and will be regretted by both DJ and MG in the very near future if they don't already regret doing it now. the rest of the mix is mixed very well but i just can't get into right now. maybe it will sound better when i'm craving this style/genre.
hey djhey mg!give me a motherfucking breakbeatwho'swho'swho's that gigolo on the street.....
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
this genre (80s boogie & italo revivalism) is officially played out
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:-vXFmP6NZoWmZM:http://www.challops.com/images/1.gif
― omar little, Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post oh ok yeah it has definitely been over-compiled lately.
i didnt find the intro went on long enough that it would get annoying, but i've just heard it for the first time so
― t_g, Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
and calling the intro 'completely fake' is a bit weird
― t_g, Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
not really. by 'completely fake' i mean, they weren't recording that intro live (triggering samples, playing the melodies, handclaps etc). so when they say, 'i like that bass, could use some girls singing....yeah ladies, clap, clap, clap' it sounds like they're directing the music when in fact, they're just reciting lines over a preexisting song, not actually playing anything or directing anything. that intro wasn't recorded live with them triggering samples as they recorded the vocals but thats what they try to pass off. thus, my comment that it's completely fake.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
what is the point of getting on the mic at the beginning of a dj mix anyway? like i said, it's still not as bad as Carl Craig's intro to his Fabric mix.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 23 October 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
They weren't recording that intro live (triggering samples, playing the melodies, handclaps etc). so when they say, 'i like that bass, could use some girls singing....yeah ladies, clap, clap, clap' it sounds like they're directing the music when in fact, they're just reciting lines over a preexisting song
O rly???? good work, detective! ;)
it's obviously supposed to be a joke. I lolled.
― dmr, Thursday, 23 October 2008 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
vahid, i agree on the italo being played out, boogie not as much, but almost there. what's hot in the world of u?
― jaxon, Thursday, 23 October 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
damn, wish I got the memo earlier! I would've sold all my italo and boogie on eBay for max bucks. Now nobody will want it because it's totally unlistenable. Metro Area definitely should have filled their fabric mix with some kind of next-level futuristic music that will influence them well into the 22nd century instead of those trendy teenybopper anthems you hear coming out of every car on the street like Poupée Flash and X-Rated Man.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 23 October 2008 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
ha. i don't mean necessarily in terms of listening or going to dance to, i was agreeing in terms of compiling
― jaxon, Thursday, 23 October 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i haven't heard the mix, so i can't comment
mix is dope
― omar little, Thursday, 23 October 2008 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I was more responding to Vahid anyway. I don't think those particular tracks are over-comped, and fwiw, I don't think there's much wrong with including a track you like in a mix just because you like the song and how it fits in with the mix. And it's a mix, not a compilation. I've complained about comps and bootlegs that have the same songs that were on last years comps and bootlegs, but if a DJ made a mix and decided Blue Monday or I Feel Love was an appropriate inclusion, what's the harm? But in this case, it's not like these are all the same songs you've heard on tons of italo and boogie comps and mixes, right? I haven't, but maybe I haven't heard that many.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 23 October 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
should have filled their fabric mix with some kind of next-level futuristic music that will influence them well into the 22nd century
yeah, like the driving memoirs.
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
that's almost as old as italo-disco!
― dan selzer, Friday, 24 October 2008 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link
you're almost as old as italo-disco, grandpa!
― s1ocki, Friday, 24 October 2008 03:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I am older than italo-disco!
― dan selzer, Friday, 24 October 2008 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
damn this is so good
http://www.lagasta.com/storm-queen-look-right-through/
― jaxon, Friday, 22 October 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
YES
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Friday, 22 October 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
^^so this song from three years ago that received two posts here is going to be number one this week
i really have no idea why or how
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
hah awesome!
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
it's the mk mix which is great and all but never superseded the original in my affections
best number one of the year anyway
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
I suppose it bears a superficial similarity to e.g. Disclosure, perhaps the yoot have caught on to that?
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's the bit i know, just don't know why a three-years-old tune has been revived as the vehicle for it
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
although it's stuck with ME for three years in a way that amazing-at-the-time dance tracks often don't so i guess that's it
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
There's not much on this thread but I'm sure I've seen extensive repping for Look Right Through on ILX in the past. The MK mix is effectively a reboot in commercial terms, it's allowed the song to filter through an entirely different scene (the original would never have been playlisted on 1xtra).
This isn't exactly a new phenomenon - Let Me Be Your Fantasy had been around for like two years by the time it hit number one. It's a symbol of a British dance ecosystem that's functioning properly again. The internet helps as well, it's been getting mad Shazam tags which helps the record company put weight behind it, although that may be a bit chicken/egg.
Original > MK Mix though.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Also factor in the worlds of disco, house and garage being closer together than they've ever been, probably.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
I wonder does MK genuinely have a knack for hitting the UK pop zeitgeist like this or has he just got lucky twice. To my ears there's never been anything partic notable abt his stuff but that prob says more abt my ears. I think if anything the Jpdeci remix was the apex of this sound but it never did much.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
Jpdeci = Jodeci obv
Whoa, amazing; here's hoping the UK success will spill over to other regions.
― etc, Thursday, 7 November 2013 00:03 (ten years ago) link
there is definitely a lot of Storm Queen talk on some of the rolling threads. maybe a little less on Look Right Through since it was the first one but when the other two dropped people were like NEW STORM QUEEN OMG
this hitting #1 is so cool.
― dmr, Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
there was loads of talk, it was one of the biggest records of that year.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
I'm gonna go bat for the MK mix here, which is obviously not exactly a fully drawn and pathos-laden song in the way the original is, but is just so compulsive it doesn't matter. There's something about his organ-riff basslines that are totally magical (see also his remix of Katy B's "What Love Is Made Of").
The MK Dub is better, really, it wastes less time paying tribute to the original's structure.
― Tim F, Thursday, 7 November 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Agreed about the Dub being better. I still have a lot of time for MK dubs in general. Old Murk as well. They mined a similar vein that keeps aging well. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWXtlHuaZg
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 7 November 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
nice momus cameo in the new video
― nashwan, Thursday, 7 November 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
re: "Look Right Through" talk on ILx, from Tim's 2010 EOY thread:
It seems like there's usually at least one great storming male diva house throwback tune each year - last year, of course, was Azari & III's "Reckless With Your Love", which not only was excellent as a house tune but also was to my mind is one of the great diva-house songs, and a song that simply wouldn't make sense delivered in any other style or manner. Like a lot of music that hits me thematically as well as viscerally it's the kind of thing that makes me wish I made music. But then diva vocal house has that effect quite often, the short-circuit between surface dazzle and hidden depths so irresistible that even people who stumble on seeming superficiality elsewhere intuitively understand its logic - it's the kind of music, in short, that brings out the best in its listeners fully as much as its makers.
"Look Right Through" (produced by Morgan Geist) isn't quite as fine a song as "Reckless With Your Love", but that's an unfair comparison: "Look Right Through" is lesser only in that it seems content to be a charming, impassioned, exhortative diva anthem about unrequited desire, carefree in its classicism - though formally, of course, it's heartbroken, resentful, oddly philosophical. But these traits emerge in classicist male diva house like hereditary features, inevitable and right-seeming as your right arm. Of course who's to say that there isn't a similarly moving deeper story lurking underneath: as far as I can tell the singer shifts from a drug addict or drunkard lover to a series of one night stands to a realisation that everyone in the world takes him for granted. Shit gets pretty real in this song.
Still, in some ways "Look Right Through" is more track than song: so much of the delight of this tune inheres in its ceaseless mutation, moving restlessly from rudimentary house percussion to shimmering, shivering synth chords and noodly arpeggios and bumping bass, before a bleepy breakdown that in no way preprares you for the tune's sudden headlong plunge into booming, bottom of a well bass at the four minute mark, as the diva wails "am I a piece of glass in your mind??" From there the tune almost disintegrates into murky dub-house, before those nervous synth-chords suddenly emerge, flittering above your ears as delicately as ever. It's great dancefloor trickery, and in the club "Look Right Through" provokes ever greater displays of enthusiasm from dancers with each shifting articulation. I think part of it is sheer surprise: "Look Right Through" is so musically and performatively generous in a style that hardly requires it, you could churn out endless derivations of "Love Won't Turn Around" and everyone would lap it up, but instead Geist and his diva Damon Scott shower you with hooks and ideas like it's the last chance they'll ever get.
― Tim F, Monday, 20 December 2010 12:42 (2 years ago)
& r|t|c precog as usual:
mk dub of storm queen's 'look right through' is arguably one of the most influential cuts of the year imo but not in any way that would get attention here
― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 January 2013 15:06 (9 months ago)
― etc, Saturday, 9 November 2013 02:10 (ten years ago) link
Tim's post is OTM, especially about that "hort-circuit between surface dazzle and hidden depths", which I think is one of the major things I latch onto in overtly happy pop. Anyway,this is the best number one in recent memory.
― Project Witch (I am using your worlds), Saturday, 9 November 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
*short, oops, C+p error
― Project Witch (I am using your worlds), Saturday, 9 November 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.officialcharts.com/music-charts/
― dan selzer, Sunday, 10 November 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
Not heard MK version but original is far better than the 2 records that followed it
― cog, Sunday, 10 November 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfe2d9Yrfuc
also
― cog, Sunday, 10 November 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
so wrong!
big congrats to mr. geist.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 10 November 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
don't get this:
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/storm-queen-scores-first-uk-number-1-with-look-right-through-2600/
it's not the OG tune that has gone to no. 1 is it? it's the MK vocal remix? what's been playlisted on R1 for weeks now? yet they're calling it "look right through" full stop?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 November 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
Got this one cheap recently too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exaR9koGISc
― cog, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
its the MK vocal remix that gets played on the radio and that got it to number 1, if it was called look right through (MK vocal remix) it probably wouldn't have got to number 1. i really don't like this version but i'm still happy that metro area are making a pile of cash.
fwiw i think i like each original SQ track more than the last. let's make mistakes is the pinnacle.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
2nd is my fave.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
This is hardly the first time people have conflated a successful remix with an original version (that didn't chart separately) - who bothers to specify that the version of Robin S's "Show Me Love" they like is the Stonebridge Club Version?
― Tim F, Sunday, 10 November 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
i wonder if defected will try to repeat the success by doing the same to the other two records?
"it goes on" is my have too.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
fave. bloody autocorrect.