Remixes, Part Deux

The list I gave of favourite remixes could obviously never be complete, or all-encompassing. ..

I really love when a remixer can take a ballad and turn it into an amazing dance track (particularly the kind of track that sad music geeks use words like throbbing, or monster, or floor-filling, to describe...)

Of note today - the Scumfrog remixes of Britney (aka Queen of Trash) Spears' Everytime.

Ooh, and a curious remix in the opposite direction... (aka weird world-music lesson of the day:)




















Dana International blazed out of the alternative club scene in Israel under the auspices and remix talents of Ofer Nissim. S/he was crazy, provocative, and controversial, singing in Hebrew and Arabic, and often doing ironic cover versions of camp classics like Baccara's "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" or "Hello Dolly" in Hebrew. She went on to win the Eurovision, and just when you thought she couldn't out-camp her feather-clad winning performance, the following year she created the Eurovision's interval act, and performed the Jewish Sabbath prayer (on a Saturday night) as a tribal dance remix extravaganza. And then fell flat on her ass when she was presenting the trophy, thereby ensuring that poor Charlotte, the Swedish winner, got only half the attention in the following day's press... Gotta hand it to her. ANYWAY, now that Dana is rather established, her most recent album was less provocative (or downright crazy) than previous efforts, and is a slick, sophisticated collection of songs. Most interesting is the "remix" of her song "Ani Nitzachti", which means "I Won" - from her Eurovision follow-up album - in a gentle, delicate acoustic version. Super classy, complete makeover, super remix.

If you are still reading this, god bless you.

PS Shout out to Ofer Nissim, whose monster remixes of everyone from Dana to Suzanne Palmer to Ofra Haza are throbbing, floor-filling genius...