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total 6 is really amazing. i never expected them to pull it off.

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 23 July 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 23 July 2005 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link

heiko voss VS heiko laux

Laux by miles and MILES and MIIIIIILES

― tylero (tylero), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah i have to admit, this koze has taken a huge backseat to total6 over the last 24 hours.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link

want hear total 6.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

me want

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

want hear!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Baxendale - I Built This City (Michael Mayer Mix)

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 23 July 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link

need this badly

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 23 July 2005 09:40 (eighteen years ago) link

hmmm, i am in cologne for the day. i wonder if they sell the records earlier than the general release date at the kompakt shop? if anyone knows could they post back quite soon (it's currently 4pm here) as i might make the effort. otherwise i'm going to go and try and sleep off a gargantuanly momentous hangover.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 23 July 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't remember but it's worth going just cos there's so much there! Although you probably own it all anyway so maybe not!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 23 July 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

i am wavering as i am scared i'll spend a fortune and also i am right at the limit with my baggage allowance and don't want to get hit for the excess baggage. i think i'll try to re energise myself instead so i'm in the mood for mayer dj'ing later.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 23 July 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah be careful, I had to pay a ridiculous amount in excess baggage at Frankfurt!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 23 July 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

here's 'Baxendale - I Built This City (Michael Mayer Mix)'

i am totally, totally obsessed with this:
http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=16NQQJELCFSON38TDXCLQ3R3H2

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 23 July 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG THOSE VOCALS DELETE DELETE DELETE!!!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

otm

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

its even worse than this world (wighnohmys & wruhme mix). this shit has got to stop

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

it could be the worst vocal i have ever heard.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Fucking hell sounds like John Balance!

― oni0n_kid, Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

you are CRAZY.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean the verse part, fine, i see where you're coming from, but that payoff! wowowow.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, it does sound a bit like jbalance except horrible!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i kinda like it, even though its an awful vocal, in a way.

but nothing, nothing could be worse than he vocam on slam's "this world", wighnomy remix or no. is there a dub version of their remix, cos i really like the tune, but the vocal is unbeliveably bad.

this on the other hand, is kinda stupid, but i quite like the falsetto bit. doesnt last very long though.

generally, shit vocals have got to stop though, i agree. "selection 3" to thread.

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i had blocked the slam track out of my mind - thanks ambrose, i need therapy again.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't mind his vocal too much, perhaps as it does sound a wee bit like john balance. it's the falsetto vocal to the end that grates, although maybe it'll grow on me. kind of underwhelmed though.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

that's a re-recorded the vocal right?! it doesn't sound as good as on the original

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

How can they get the music so right and the vocals so wrong? They should hire the lot of us as vocal/lyrical consultants.

The falsetto does warm some small place in my heart, though.

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm wondering if it's a re-recorded vocal too. The original "I Built This City" is amazing - it doesn't sound so Neil Tennant/spoken wordish, and the falsetto which comes in during the bridge is much more of a payoff. It's also much more disco pop than Mayer's version!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I like the original 'I Built this City' way better than the remix as well! The remix would be way better without any vocals. The way he's done this remix reminds me of "Love is Stronger than Pride" -- substitute the "you you you you..." in place of "pride pride pride pride..." etc....except that track ruled and this doesn't.

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, there's a Wighnomy Dub of Slam's "This World." And I love that dominatrix vocal track on Selection 3, although I could see people thinking it's silly.

xpost - Does anyone know if the original "Built This City" will be on the 12" or is it just the Justus/Mayer mixes?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

how is the justus remix of 'i built this city'? i haven't heard that one.

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

fuck the lyrical moaning, this sounds like the Pet Shop Boys! (and is hence great)

this sounded amazing in Glasgow that faithful night.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

and again in Dublin, this (a little less) miserable night!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

you just need to get busted again.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I meant the night is a little less miserable having heard it!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I have to say the Mayer remix is a certain type of track, it's really peak time plateau kind of stuff, the night he played he dropped it and it sounded like the greatest thing ever, just really *right* for that moment when the unspoken consensus that a DJ has done a really really good job seems to fall into a club from the sky. So like, particularly if you've got DJs good enough to do real journey type sets then this mix is fantastic I think.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

mayer played this tonight and in cologne and it sounded fantastic in the context of what he was playing but i still don't think i'd touch it with a bargepole. highlight of the night - justus koehncke - 'german clubs are the most boring in the world. mini maaal must die'.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 24 July 2005 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link

and i can still never spell 'kohncke'.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 24 July 2005 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link

It's awful, I really don't like it all. I'm not sure that any mix or huge system could save those vocals. Though possibly drugs might improve things, just long enough to wait for the next track...

― Mika, Sunday, 24 July 2005 05:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I love it. Ronan explains why.

― Omar (Omar), Sunday, 24 July 2005 06:31 (eighteen years ago) link

what ronan's saying makes a lot of sense, but it'd really have to be in the right part of the night, with the right dj. the part where the doom-laden vocals drop out and the falsetto comes in is awesome--i can see that part really making a dancefloor go nuts.

also, i think that if the baxendale vocals in the mayer mix were sung in german instead of english, we'd all be like 'ooh that sounds so cool and dark and mysterious!' etc etc instead of hating it, ha.

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 24 July 2005 06:48 (eighteen years ago) link

...and i just realized that if you go to www.minimal.de, it's a supermarket! there's a german grocery store chain called miniMAL. the germans have gone too far this time.

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 24 July 2005 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah that's never happened before!

― strng hlkngtn, Sunday, 24 July 2005 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i like the baxendale track okay. it's no more stupid or pretentious than the kylie/"lovefood" (not a track i exactly love to begin with) mashup. but that's two tracks out of 24, so i can forgive.

― strng hlkngtn, Sunday, 24 July 2005 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, i can't believe i'm in such a small minority! the falsetto part absolutely slays me.

geeta so otm re: if it were in german..

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 24 July 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link

the bit where the falsetto comes in is AWESOME and made me squeal.

the over-egged amateur dramatic vocals less so, but I can certainly see my opinion changing in the right circumstances (ie what Ronan and Geeta said).

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 24 July 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no problem with the vocals on the remix (have yet to hear the original version), and certainly don't understand the idea that Mayer's deployed them awkwardly (I can more easily understand objecting to them for their own sake).

If anything the remix is yet another example of how effortlessly good Mayer's music sounds when he has a vocal to frame. This reminds me a lot of the "Happiness" remix with its insistent pulse. Everyone who says that the falsetto bit should last longer is spot-on though; I think he could have looped it for ages and ages and ages. It's not as good as his mix of Nathan Fake's "Coheed" though.

Of the (standalone) Mayer remixes i've heard I'd rank them as follows:

The Modernist - Protest Song
Frank Martiniq - Adriano
Superpitcher - Happiness
Nathan Fake - Coheed
Antonelli Electr - The Vogue
Miss Kittin - Happy Violentine
Baxter - I Built This City
Paul Nazca - Emotion
Egoexpress - Telefunken
Agoria - Sky Is Clear
P.W.O.G. - Kind Of Prayer
Donna Regina - Star Ferry
Sven Vath - Face It
Matthias Schaffhauser - Nice To Meet You

... Time for a compilation I reckon.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 24 July 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link

the falsetto just sounds like a really bad version of the scissor sisters to me.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 24 July 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

the falsetto just sounds like a really bad version of the scissor sisters to me.

i guess so, but still i prefer this vocal meme to the shouty-newyork-yelphouse cf tiefschwarz eat books at any rate, which is like, my worst nightmare.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 24 July 2005 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

oh god yes - t raumschmiere's fallen prey to it on his album too. eat books is disappointing in pretty much every possible way but I swear some of those vocals would ruin even tiefschwarz at their best.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 24 July 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

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