You can't curb unbridled, nubile creativity! Yesterday, I felt strongly that David West's "The Hideout" sounds like "The Sky Was Pink". It bothered me so much that I had to substantiate it. That minutes later, I was in Ableton Live and mixing those tracks and Sasha's "Who Killed Sparky?"
THE RESULT = SPARKY'S HIDEOUT WAS PINK?
Herein described as:
Quitely mashup of Sasha's "Who Killed Sparky?" + David West's "The Hideout" + James Holden's remix of Nathan Fake's "The Sky Was Pink"
It's both a beautiful tribute to these works, which like Donald Kaufman's The Three, are REALLY ONE AND THE SAME! And it's a grotesque parody, altho you may not see it that way. I made sure to go over-the-top with extra white noise flourishes (like so many extra maraschino cherries) and unexpected surprises like lofi effects tweakage. Some subtle, some quite startling and starling.
Overall, the mixing (which sounds more seamless than "mashup") grooves smoothly. It's eminently listenable. But there are parts wherein I wanted to challenge the well-known idioms (which is one letter away from being "idiots") of modern techno-trance music.
It paves the way for future UNIFIED DANCE THEORY showing… while we are different, we're not so different after all.
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Both of them just make me think somehow of "Hawkeye" from Alan Parsons Project "Vulture Culture" album.
Not as trancy, and more melodic and carefully layered, of course.
Or maybe "Apollo" from their "On Air" album. Or "Where's the Walrus" from "Stereotomy".
Much enjoyed! This here is a mix I can zone out to, or listen closely for sonic easter eggs.
I can see UNIFIED DANCE THEORY being a subject of one of your blog posts…or a college paper…
@Maggie: There's a couple names I haven't heard in awhile! Gotta check those out… I like it when modern electronic music in some way makes reference to prog rock from the 70s and the like.
@thattagen: Awww yeah! Well long ago I used to wax more philosophical about electronic music history. I chatted from time to time with the famed Ishkur, who went on to create http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/music.swf Good times.
@Torley – Well… I couldn't swear to you Sasha/West/Holden were making an intentional reference, it's just my music-saturated brain free-associating.
Hawkeye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIVBSHn8gsw
Where's the Walrus? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj9Wzv1G0f4
Apollo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8krll0w5H4
And just because it's a cool tune also from "On Air":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik3nmx5LmcU