SummersRadio™ Classic! New Order - 'Blue Monday' (Vandalism Remix)
New Order's club classic 'Blue Monday' is 30 years old today - released by Factory Records on March 7th, 1983! The song also has the distinction of being the best selling 12" single of all time, having sold 1.16 million copies in the U.K. alone.
There's certainly no shortage of remixes of this song released over the years - this is a tasteful update from Kurd Maverick which was released in 2009 called the 'Vandalism Mix'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Remix! The Scumfrog featuringSting - 'If I Ever Lose My Faith' (Carl Cox Remix)
Jesse Houk aka The Scumfrog has just released a new remake/ remix EP of Sting's 'If I Ever Lose My Faith'! The EP is billed as 'Scumfrog featuring Sting' as it samples the original vocals from Sting's 1993 hit of the same name from his 'Ten Summoner's Tales' album. The EP features five new remixes of the song and it's released on the Armada Music label.
This hypnotic remix from techno legend Carl Cox resembles the vibe of New Order's classic 'Blue Monday'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Remixes + Free Downloads! Depeche Mode vs Motor - 'Personal Man Made Jesus Machine'/ New Order - 'Blue Monday' (Behind The Wheel Remix)
One of the things I like about doing this blog is the excitement that comes with tracking the page views - and what parts of the world people are looking and listening from. I've always been a bit of a numbers freak - from making my own weekly Top 50 song charts when I was about 11 (because they were better than the existing ones of course!) to a general interest in city populations and other such things. You may have noticed that I often post at certain times as well - 1:11, 11:11, 3:33 - and of course 4:20 is a popular one here in Vansterdam - as some people occasionally call our beautiful city! :)
Anyway, sometime tonight or in the wee hours of the morning the blog will hit a bit of a milestone in the all-time views so far department. I won't give away numbers at this time - not until I hit the millions - but it's a healthy start for 16 official months on the world wide web. And how shall we celebrate this achievement? Well with music of course - and some bonus free downloads as well!
Special thanks to each and every one of you who's viewed SummersRadio™ - and to our biggest supporting countries/ areas - Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Russia, Hungary, Malaysia, and Brazil - Cheers! ♥ Please tell your friends and loved ones about it too! ♥
Andy Motke aka Dominatrix RMX is a producer from 'a small town' in Germany who appears to be a bit a of Depeche Mode fan. In fact he has 100 songs posted on Soundcloud - all of them either Depeche Mode remixes, or mashups that feature the band! You can check out more of them here: http://soundcloud.com/dominatrix-1
Today we shall feature his two latest mashups/ remixes - starting with this one - 'Personal Man Made Jesus Machine', which is a mashup of the new Motor single 'Man Made Machine' that features Martin L. Gore on vocals. I featured the original track in December (which you can revisit here: http://summersradio.blogspot.com/2011/12/summersradio-new-music-motor-featuring.html) and mentioned how it resembles DM's hit 'Personal Jesus'. Thus it comes as no surprise that another massive Mode fan has mashed them up together.
This is Dominatrix RMX's new mashup of the two songs which he lists as Depeche Motor Mode - 'Personal Man Made Jesus Machine' - and if the song is to your liking you can download a copy for free on his Soundcloud page here: http://soundcloud.com/dominatrix-1/depeche-motor-mode-personal Enjoy!
This is another new mashup from Dominatrix RMX - of New Order's 'Blue Monday' and Depeche Mode's 'Behind The Wheel' - which is also available as a free download here: http://soundcloud.com/dominatrix-1/new-order-blue-monday-behind (or simply click on the download icon below)
This is his 'Behind The Wheel Remix' of New Order's club classic 'Blue Monday'... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ New Order! Who Did They Sample? New Order - 'Blue Monday' After posting the rare 'Blue Monday' remix below I figured it would be the perfect time to tell you about the awesome website called 'WhoSampled'! Their official address is whosampled.com http://www.whosampled.com/ and their tag line is 'Exploring and discussing the DNA of music'. Here's some info from their site on what it's all about if you're not already familiar with them:
'We're building the ultimate database of sampled music, remixes and cover songs. Dig deeper into music by discovering direct links among over 95,000 songs and 37,000 artists, from Hip-Hop and R&B via Electronic Music through to Rock, Pop, Funk, Soul, Jazz and beyond. Watch the videos, contribute new content, discuss and vote.'
Basically you can type in the name of any artist or song and it will list every artist that they've sampled and every artist who's sampled them. Of course not everything is in there yet, but it's constantly growing. Not only do they post the audio for the original song and the source of the sample - they also indicate at exactly what point in each song the sample occurs!
The interesting thing about New Order's 'Blue Monday' is that people generally believe it to be entirely a New Order composition - while they did write it - it features several obvious influences and samples from other songs. So here's few of the tracks that provided some of the elements that helped mold what became the club anthem we know as 'Blue Monday'...
The keyboard bit on the intro and extro was sampled from the Kraftwerk song 'Uranium' from their album 'Radio-Activity' which was released in 1975... Enjoy!
The kick drum beat was borrowed from Donna Summer's track 'Our Love' from her 'Bad Girls' album which was written and produced by Summer and Giorgio Moroder and from her 1979 album 'Bad Girls'. The kick drum sample appears 1:33 in - and even before that the keyboards sound a lot like another New Order track - 'Temptation' that was released as a single just prior to 'Blue Monday' - Enjoy!
The bassline was styled from Sylvester's 1978 disco classic 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)'...
And the overall arrangement of the song came from a song called 'Dirty Talk' by the Italian post-disco group Klein + M.B.O...
So although 'Blue Monday' was a groundbreaking record it was also influenced by and a fusion of many different sounds that came before it - mixing disco, new wave, synthpop and New York club music - to create a new club anthem. Just for kicks here's the excellent remix from Hardloor to remind us of how great all these influences sound stitched together... Enjoy!
SummersRadio™ Rare Remix! New Order - 'Blue Monday' (Andrea Remix) Few club songs are as legendary and influential as New Order's 'Blue Monday'. It was first released as a 12 inch single in March of 1983 on the Factory Records label. It's been re-released several times - most notably in 1988 and 1995 - and remixed countless times! I was much more impressed with the '95 remixes over the '88 ones - especially with the Hardfloor remix. What was really surprising was when I first listened to this 'Andrea Remix' - New Order... doing reggae?!? It's a bit of a reggae/ ambient hybrid actually, and it works amazingly well. This was originally the fourth track on the 'Blue Monday '95' cd single - this is the 'Andrea Remix'... Enjoy!
