Lo, it has come to pass. More or less.
Late last year, Record Machine prez Nathan Reusch issued the challenge to his KC label's resident DJ, Max Justus, to remix the new Kanye West album.
Justus ended up working with his eight favorite tracks from 808s (we're surprised he could find that many!), giving them his own patented electro-dubstep therapy, and releasing them to the world. Grab them here or by clicking on the album cover above.
Addendum: If you pick up this week's Pitch, on page 33, there's a big picture of Max Justus spinning live. Underneath the photo, some booby has written that Justus is "still at work" on the remix project that was just released today (see above). Maybe on Monday, when the text on page 33 was written, Max was indeed still working on the album, but did the booby who wrote that text include the phrase "as of this writing" in his copy? No, he did not. That booby regrets his error.
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As much as I would love to hear a local dude doing something really cool with Kanye's album, this attempt is really really lacking.
The vocal isn't even close to being on beat on the Love Lockdown remix, which is totally amateur considering its the biggest song off the album.
The best remixers understand how to keep at least some of the original vibe/energy of a song while putting their own spin on it. These just sound like Kanye acapellas laid on top of some frankly generic sounding electro/hip-hop beats. Everything sounds really really forced.
Check out artists like Dabrye, Nosaj Thing, Ghislain Poirier, Eliot Lipp or Megasoid to hear how this style can be done right.
cool,
Cant wait to hear!
just found this remake of kanye's good life
by a band called Nite Club from brooklyn.
It sounds like a happy verson of 808's
http://www.myspace.com/niteclu...
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